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A website has pulled together some of the ugliest web pages on Earth – and they're all still going strong, despite having been designed in the 'good old days'. Websitesfromhell.net harks back to the nightmarish days when capital letters and fluorescent letters ruled cyber space - often without a picture in sight. Websitesfromhell.net invites submissions from all over the world only with one condition - that the selection be truly dire. The site says: ‘You can submit your own website, a website of your ex-client or the page of the rest home from your grandma who slaps you every time you visit her. The only requirement is: the website should be ugly! ‘There is a heavy use of gif images, more frames than you can count, java applets used as navigations, rainbow backgrounds and so on? Yes, that would be a great candidate for hell! Use the submit form! Now!’ The 423 websites include candyromeo.com, which bills itself as the first dog matrimonial website in India. To a background of awful Indian rock music, its creators have arranged a garish visual assault of dog photos, animated pooches and neon colours. At the bottom of the homepage are two more pictures of dogs - with their eyes animated to look as if they are twinkling. Webking.com purports to be the homepage of a web designer who will build your own for $99, but the site itself it so bad that only the clueless would employ him. Aside from the photo of a man wearing a crown in the top corner, there is also an amateurish picture of a castle and lurid bright text scattered throughout. Another website featured on Websitesfromhell.net is hosanna1.com which purports to be links to ‘the most beautiful pages on the web’. Unfortunately it is so clogged with multicoloured, overlapping text of different colours that it ends up leaving you with a headache. In the middle there is even a bizarre section which orders the viewer in bright pink capitals: ‘CLICK HERE FOR PUPPIES!!!’ Some of the websites have been changed since appearing on the website, such as Florida-based TNT Events. Before being named and shamed however it had an inexplicable yellow and scarlet colour scheme and text overlayed on top of a picture of its two founders, making the words unreadable. (Read by Nelly Min. Nelly Min is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies) |
一家名為“來自地獄的網(wǎng)站”正致力于匯集全世界最丑的網(wǎng)站,這些中選網(wǎng)站多數(shù)誕生于互聯(lián)網(wǎng)產(chǎn)生初期,但是卻都不斷成長。 Websitesfromhell.net帶領(lǐng)大家回到了網(wǎng)絡(luò)空間惡夢般的日子里,滿眼大寫字母和熒光字,幾乎沒有圖片。 這家網(wǎng)站歡迎全球各地的人們提供備選網(wǎng)站,條件只有一個:網(wǎng)站足夠“可怕”。 網(wǎng)頁上寫道:“你可以推選自己的網(wǎng)站,前客戶的網(wǎng)站,或是你祖母養(yǎng)老院的網(wǎng)站,因為每次你去探望她都要被那個難看的網(wǎng)站打擊一次。唯一的要求是:網(wǎng)站足夠丑!” “有的網(wǎng)站過度使用gif圖片、或者是數(shù)不清的框架結(jié)構(gòu)、還有用作導(dǎo)航的java小程序、彩虹色背景等等?是的,這就是一個‘來自地獄的網(wǎng)站’的候選者。現(xiàn)在趕快推薦吧!” 432個中選網(wǎng)站中包括號稱印度首家狗狗婚介網(wǎng)站的candyromeo.com。該網(wǎng)站的印度搖滾背景樂相當(dāng)糟糕,創(chuàng)建者還在網(wǎng)頁上貼滿令人眼花繚亂的狗狗照片,還配有動畫處理的狗狗和霓虹色。 主頁底部還配上了另外兩張狗狗圖片,狗狗的眼睛經(jīng)過動畫處理,看上去一眨一眨的。 Webking.com聲稱是一個網(wǎng)頁設(shè)計者的網(wǎng)站,花上99美金就可以幫你建立自己的網(wǎng)站。不過鑒于該網(wǎng)站本身就足夠丑,估計只有腦殘才會花錢雇他。 除去頂部角上那個戴皇冠的男人照片,網(wǎng)頁上還有一個十分業(yè)余的城堡圖片,外加通篇的血紅色亮字。 另外一家上榜網(wǎng)站是hosanna1.com,該網(wǎng)站宣稱自己可以鏈接到“最美網(wǎng)站”上。然而不幸的是,該網(wǎng)站顏色過多,不同顏色的文字層層疊疊,只會讓人頭痛。 網(wǎng)頁中部還詭異地用亮粉色大寫字母告訴讀者:“點此得小狗!” 一些網(wǎng)站在被點名為最丑網(wǎng)頁后進(jìn)行了改良,比如來自佛羅里達(dá)州的TNT Events。在其獲提名并因此而蒙羞之前,該網(wǎng)站顏色為讓人費解的紅黃色系,并且頂部兩位網(wǎng)站建立者照片之上還疊加了文字,從而導(dǎo)致文字模糊不清。 相關(guān)閱讀 (中國日報網(wǎng)英語點津 Julie 編輯:陳丹妮) |
Vocabulary: good old days: 當(dāng)年,美好的往日 hark back: 重新提到或想起原先的問題、舊事等 rest home: 療養(yǎng)院,養(yǎng)老院 |