This week in the Ph.Creative design studio we've come across the weird & wonderful of web design. In this weeks’ design blog, we've picked out the good, the bad and the down right ugly of websites.

We've come across loads of great looking sites this week but the one that stands out for us is the events.carsonified.com. As if Carsonified weren't cool enough as an agency, the events site continues to push the creativity and userbility. It not only looks great but is packed with tonnes of videos of seminars from all areas of the industry. The bold colourful typography and the use of different illustration styles in the mast and the footer is really refreshing and a nice change from the standard free vector graphics that are flooding the sites nowadays!  For us it’s the attention to detail that makes the sites stand out, the old 'less is more' theory. This is a great site. Nice & simple yet very informative! 5 out of 5!  
 

The site we've chosen for this wins hands down. If there was a room 101, this site would be first in the queue! www.genicap.com. The designers of this site, for us, broke every rule in web design. From the homepage, the user has no idea of what they do and its just doesn't engage the user at any stage. In fact, it’s so boring that the web designers couldn't even be bothered laying out some of the text so just dropped in dodgy jpgs of the copy! Poor work guys. We've come across lots of bad sites but this one is right up there.

This is almost tongue in cheek. We actually wanted to email these guys and ask if its a joke? At least on this site we know what they do, they're a driving school but how bad is it!
http://www.drivingskills.on.ca/ has more clipart on a site than we’ve ever seen. The nasty background, lack of understanding of colour and typography has to make this the ugliest site on the web.

So that’s it for this we, our small collection of really bad sites. If you’ve seen any howlers out there that deserve to be in our blog, please feel free to send them in to us.