It is with great pleasure that I present to you the second feature in the Bad Design series: Tuloy Pnoy.

Don’t get me wrong: this isn’t about Noynoy^[1]—this tirade is about whoever^[2] designed this website. Designers are hired for their creativity and thoughtfulness—the person who designed this website seems to have neither.

I’d write more, but I have an exam for which to study. So I’ll leave a list:

1. The marquee on the top-right of the page. That is so 1995.
2. The home button on the menu is the exact image taken from barackobama.com
3. I was under the impression that Noynoy’s campaign color was yellow. So why there more blue than yellow? Oh, wait. I forgot. It was ripped off from barackobama.com.
4. See the form on the right side of the page? The country default is “United States”. It should be “Philippines”.
5. What is that in the footer? A call center company? Why? Why not Powered by HOPE? If you were to copy from Obama’s site, it should be that.
6. Did I mention the logo?
7. This makes Noynoy look bad.

I pity the fool who designed tuloypnoy.com. Ugly websites, I can tolerate. Shameless copycats, I cannot. You are an embarrassment to the filipino design community and I encourage you to give up this job (which is obviously too big for you), and take knitting instead.

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[1] For those of you who are unfamiliar with Philippine politics, Noynoy is the son of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino and Corazon “Cory” Aquino. The former is a national hero (he was assassinated) and the man on the 500 peso bill, while the latter succeeded Marcos after he was ousted by the monumental People Power rally on highway 54, known today as EDSA.

[2] Apparently, this is a “fan”-made website, and isn’t the official campaign website of Noynoy. The fact remains, however, that whoever designed this committed a very dishonorable act. The original text of my error is as follows:

“While I have nothing against Noynoy, I must say that he must reconsider his choice of publicity personnel. Designers are hired for their creativity and thoughtfulness. The person who designed this website has neither.”

Thanks to mlq3 for the correction.

I believe in the link economy. Please feel free to link to our stories — it adds value to all producers of content. I believe you should play fair and encourage your readers to read-around to what others are producing if you use it and find it interesting.
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Let’s stop whining and start having real conversations across party lines. Let’s get online publishers, search engines, aggregators, ad networks, and self-publishers (bloggers) in a virtual room and determine how we can all get along. I don’t believe any one of us should be the self-appointed Internet police; agreeing on a code of conduct and ethics is in everyone’s best interests.

Very well written article and I wholeheartedly agree. I sincerely hope this changes a lot of people’s minds for the better. In the spirit of Reuters’ enlightenment, *links*

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