Comments on: Oh . . . my . . . god

Oh . . . my . . . god

Outlawyr — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 03:57:45 -0800

Looking for quality web design? Ugo V. Re, Web Master, might just have what you're looking for.

By: Outlawyr

Outlawyr — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 03:59:55 -0800

Somehow, this makes me nostalgic for the early days of the web, when everything looked like his sample sites. Don't miss his animation demo

By: kenaman

kenaman — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 04:02:47 -0800

Hey Outlawyr no self promotion!

By: Outlawyr

Outlawyr — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 04:15:31 -0800

You caught me! Hey, just wait till Ugo learns flash. I see great things ahead. Oh, and for those who are scratching their heads saying, "yeah, but where's the 'under construction' sign?" here it is. Ugo left no stone unturned.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 04:23:32 -0800

why is part of the wood siding stuck to the spider's feet?

By: tr33hggr

tr33hggr — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 04:31:21 -0800

No matter q; to the treasures!

By: thatweirdguy2

thatweirdguy2 — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 05:08:02 -0800

I work well with others, am reliable, energetic and open to change. Good.

By: damnitkage

damnitkage — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 05:09:37 -0800

Wow! I'm calling him today. I just want the waving american flags and maybe an eagle or two with flapping wings.

By: kenaman

kenaman — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 05:36:21 -0800

His counter just reset to 50 for my last visit, do you think that maybe the code behind it is a little flaky.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 05:39:57 -0800

yeah, i am the 065 visitor. earlier i was the 502 visitor.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 05:47:36 -0800

kenaman, that counter is hilarious! here is an unedited screenshot i just grabbed:

By: mischief

mischief — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 05:49:54 -0800

[this is dumb]

By: kenaman

kenaman — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 05:54:11 -0800

Why do we all keep going back though! I have since set the site as my homepage and now have this : tiled as my desktop. I tell you the man has something..

By: biffa

biffa — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 06:18:10 -0800

He has a cool name though, at first I thought it was some kind of playoff situation, like, for example, Run DMC V. Jason Nevins.

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 06:20:58 -0800

Ugo, girl!

By: brownpau

brownpau — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 06:23:12 -0800

I still stand by the aesthetic precedents set by Webtek. (Warning: Geocities.) Their poetry, oh, their poetry.

By: twine42

twine42 — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 06:26:00 -0800

well, I was going to say that this was a worse web design company, but they seem to have ditched their old site and replaced it with an all signing, all dancing, all annoying flash version. Hohum.

By: MegoSteve

MegoSteve — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 06:26:34 -0800

brownpau: That's great! I should put their tagline on my business card: "Let us put youselves on the Super Information Highway!"

By: Scoo

Scoo — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 06:37:26 -0800

brownpau: Ahhhgh! My Eyes! The goggles, they do nothing!

By: mischief

mischief — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 07:05:33 -0800

"all signing" : Well, that's one way to get around streaming audio.

By: smcniven

smcniven — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 08:23:40 -0800

scoo: I'm assuming you just visited their client list?

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:22:00 -0800

Ugo's secret ingredient.

By: cedar

cedar — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:40:19 -0800

There are a great many badly designed sites out there, some even by 'designers'. What is it that makes Ugo worthy of being singled out for our amusement?

By: punilux

punilux — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:07:44 -0800

IANA developer, but I guess it's just the sheer bog-awful lack of professionalism. e.g. - follow the 'photography' link, enter the 'portfolio', then, (as there's nothing there), click the 'return' link. I mean, this is a person who didn't get past page 1 of HTML For Dummies, ain't it? Now that's all well and good, but he's selling his services and putting real developers out of work. Caveat emptor I suppose, but a Web Master like this deserves scorn.

By: Mick

Mick — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:47:59 -0800

Between this thread and the other about stupid things clients say it's like the good old days around here. *content sigh*

By: Outlawyr

Outlawyr — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:04:44 -0800

What is it that makes Ugo worthy of being singled out for our amusement? I don't even know where to start. I saw it, and I knew instantly that it must be shared. It's a masterpiece.

By: SpecialK

SpecialK — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:54:11 -0800

MetaFilter: To the treasures!

By: robbie01

robbie01 — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:20:39 -0800

I would put $100 of cold, harsh cash on the wager that Ugo has never put a single "real developer" out of work. "I was just about to land the re-design of the FedEx.com account. That is, until they got a call from one mister Ugo V. Re."

By: wendell

wendell — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:24:11 -0800

I have a term I use for really really smalltime webmasters: Websters. And I am accepting e-mail via webster[at]wendellwit.com

By: jca

jca — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:31:46 -0800

... like fish in a barrel ...

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:36:36 -0800

It's no Bud Uglly.

By: cedar

cedar — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:52:31 -0800

Now that's all well and good, but he's selling his services and putting real developers out of work. Somehow, I'm not feeling threatened :) I think the guys amusing but I have a fundamental problem with mocking people who are, a) not public figures or in the news and b) have no means of responding. I think it's a cheap shot to drag someones work through the mud, regardless of how gut wrenchingly bad it may be. Now if I only knew what the hell that thing flying out of the mailbox was... I'm going to dream about this, I know it.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:50:10 -0800

have no means of responding. he, uh, has a web site.

By: condour75

condour75 — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:55:50 -0800

Oh my god. The director of the Bloomfield Mandolin Orchestra was my guitar teacher in middle school. Nice guy. I thought he was dead for some reason. I'd give them a nicer website for free, but I really don't want to go over Ugo's helmet.

By: Outlawyr

Outlawyr — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 15:44:23 -0800

but I have a fundamental problem with mocking people who are, a) not public figures or in the news and b) have no means of responding. Hello. He's advertising his design skills over the internet, which can be accessed throughout the world. These aren't some scraps in his secret diary. It's about as public as public gets. And as pointed out above, he can respond as well as anyone replying here. Anyway, I don't think anyone is mocking him so much as observing the irony of a self proclaimed Web Master offering his services as a web designer with these circa 1995 style web designs. Who knows, maybe this FPP will lead to him getting some work. Well, ok, that was going too far.

By: cedar

cedar — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:39:36 -0800

Okay... I won't pursue this any further. I'd just like to see us setting our sights a little higher than some kid with his first copy of Dreamweaver... there is so much to make fun of and so little time. Priorities, priorities.

By: Jairus

Jairus — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 20:58:00 -0800

I'd just like to see us setting our sights a little higher than some kid with his first copy of Dreamweaver... No worries there: <meta name="generator" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">

By: biffa

biffa — Thu, 20 Nov 2003 03:13:51 -0800

b) have no means of responding. Matt makes exemptions for access to people relevant to the thread. Also, I am personally a great believer that talking about people behind their back is generally much more polite than saying it to their faces.

By: Outlawyr

Outlawyr — Thu, 20 Nov 2003 03:21:11 -0800

I won't pursue this any further. I'd just like to see us . . . etc. Notice how everything after "I won't pursue this any further" negates that statement? Just saying.