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Why do C2C guests almost always have horrible websites?

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sillydog:
If the colour purple, terrible artwork, flaming and spinning gifs and horrible HTML 1.0 sites were banned tomorrow, we'd be hard-pressed to find anything out about most guests.  What the heck is up w/ this?  Is the sort of mind that has an eye for design simply not the sort of person who gets into Forteana? 

I mention this because I'll hear a gues that sounds reasonable, go to their website and be visually assaulted with a bunch of crap I'd never even pass along to a like-minded friend.  It actually makes it kind of hard to take some of these folks seriously and even harder to actually get a proper discussion about the topic in question started.  What is up w/ this?

Any ideas? 

Max:
its not hard to get a damned CMS up and running and add the info, I do it all the time with client sites and their happy... because it means I can teach them to edit their own sites.

MV:
sillydog... when i saw this question you've posed, i was really laughing hard because while i have never given this fact any conscious thought, it is sooooooo true.  it's always a simple HTML page with lots of shit-bag frames everywhere where you scroll scroll scroll for 5 years.  christ is this true.  great observation.  as a matter of fact... most of their sites look like the Heaven's Gate site, visible here:  http://www.heavensgate.com/

Camazotz Automat:
Excellent question.

Hell, C2C's site itself needs a major rewyrking.  It looks like a place where you would order vitamin pills from a true blue pyramid schemer. 

To address sillydog's question, I surmise it may be partly due to the age bracket of the majority of the guests on Coast, who believe having a web presence at all is a win situation through default.  Hey, my website is blah blah blah.  Most are there to plug their book or product and can't see the forest of potential aesthetic improvement for the money trees planted in PAYPALian soil.  As sure as I say this, George will have a 23 year old remote viewer on with a "retro web site," disproving my age theory.  :)

Whatever the pathology, it is definitely consistent/chronic.  Perhaps the fringe area is somehow mutually exclusive from professional media due to the guests living in their head so much they don't see the need to provide better graphic interface.  Beats the flash out of me.

God save me from animated .gif email boxes, lime green backgrounds, and New Age midi versions of "In the Year 2525."

Speaking of 2525, by contrast, here is the real and excellent deal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhNM2K8cmU8

exC2Cfan:
Yes, very good observation, sillydog. Now that you mention it, they are usually horrible--as if they were created using web design as it was in say, 1995, and never updated. Scroooooooooooooooooooling down a single page that is about ten feet long. I don't know much about web design, but it seems as if they are created in MS Word.

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