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And the ‘Worst Website of the Year Award’ Goes To:

December 1st, 2008 | Posted in Omani Websites, Web

Nawras Shababiah! You can visit it here.

I have no idea what happened to Nawras. They usually work with professional branding agencies, but this website about their latest new ‘thing’ is atrocious! I do not know if this was made internally in Nawras or by a cheap computer shop in Ruwi. The last month of the year 2008 starts tomorrow, but this website has every single design and usuability flaw seen in websites made in the year 1998.

For God’s sake, point me to a single decent website made in 2008 that has a Flash intro (WITH FREAKING SOUND TRACK) that plays automatically when you open the wbsite? The website looks ugly, defies all the logical rules for proper navigation, does not have a logo or a title at the top of the page, and does not even have a title tag. The Arabic version of the website has grammatical errors in the first line of the first text page and does not have a freaking full stop at the end of the first paragraph.

This is a service made by a mobile network operator and yet there is no mobile version of the page! How smart is that?

For some reason, I still think that if this website entered the Oman Web Awards it will come in the top three if not at number 1. Now how wack is that?

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  • I've just gone in and had a peak.

    Watch in the intro movie! Double spaces on some of the text and if I love the missing question mark in the "Why be alone" section of the intro.

    Sigh.

    JD
  • Fast Hacking has more than likely hit the nail on the head.
    This is pure amateur design - and in fact, if it is anything above that, then heads should roll.
    But they won't, because this is Oman.

    JD
  • hehe.. totally agree wid ya.. check out the navigation. if u rolll over eg a pink button and click green after sometimes, the page changes to pink... Fuckk all design. and some links dont even work!

    LOVED - "does not have a freaking full stop at the end of the first paragraph." hehehe...
  • Hahahaha!!

    Probably the marketing manager told his kid to use some of the free online templates and add logos and free actions here and there. Money saving, phew!
  • Anony Mouse, I do not think that the responsibilities of an online services manager involve web 'design' because it is not an online 'service'. This is probably the responsibility of people in the branding/marketing/public communications departments.
  • Anony Mouse
    ....and who actually manages Nawras Online Services?....the great IT wizkid of Oman Mr. Tariq AlBarwani.
  • Kishor, I think that Oman Mobile's and Nawras' main websites are pretty alright. I'm just talking about the "Shababiah" website in the post.
  • What do you say about Oman Mobile website then?
  • P4L
    I agree with Nawras standard has gone down the drain. That's why I didn't even bothered visiting the site.
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