Don’t try this at home or office. Even the screenshot doesn’t completely do it justice.

Was talking with a blogger friend a little earlier about some formatting issues on a blog post. Minor, nitpicky stuff really. He was using red text instead of simple bold black text on a white background to draw attention to headings in a post. The use of red text on a white background can be really hard on eyes, but that was nothing like the site pictured above strangely located at the domain ilovetocomplain.com (not linked because I don’t want to promote reader blindness). Ironically, the site proudly claims to be “Finally a place to get it off your chest.”

The use of the whole ‘B*SH’ four letter word thing coupled with red dots that won’t dissipate from my vision made me want to think of a less flattering word using those same letters. They’d rather not have you leave anything with profanity in your comments, even though that’s the immediate thought when something pokes you in the eye. By the screenshot, readers may notice my inability to resist complaining. Was able to resist the urge to put this in the How To category here, as it would certainly fit how to use design to run off visitors.

And of course this site is in beta. Wonder what they do design-wise when it launches out of beta? Stick needles in site visitor’s eyes?

Did this post make you go hmm?

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