#Fail – Hope for Haiti Now Website
I very rarely critique other websites publicly but this is an exception.
Tomorrow, the biggest telethon the world has ever seen is taking place to raise money for the people of Haiti. All week I’ve been monitoring the news coming out of Haiti, watching the incredible rescues, seeing the despair as aid struggles to get through to those desperately in need and how the aid efforts have been – by some reports – a bit of a shambles.
I received a press release today saying that the website for the telethon was now live and that the TV networks will be promoting it.
I was so disappointed to see the site – it seems to exemplify the mess that the aid efforts are reported to be in. I would love to redesign it for free before it’s showcased to the world. I’m sure many other designers would jump at the chance to do the same. If you’re a designer or a coder, go take a look and let me know what you think:
your thoughts
Pete
That’s really messy, dated and has no impact at all. It reminds me of a “make money from home now – 100% genuine” type website. It really is bad form – as you say many designers would have done it for free and a website with better impact will surely help to raise more; just because the cause is charitable doesn’t mean it doesn’t need to be marketed.
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Ronald Poi
90’s design at its… best?…
Bonus
I totally agree with Pete, for me the first impression when I saw the site was – what a scam bag site is this. I doubt people will trust very much and want to donate to a site like this.
But from other side, we need to remember for what reason the site was created. I don’t think that tragedy like this needs a really fancy design. Of course the better look will more attractive, but it was created not to impress visitors, right? but for donation.
Plus, I think they wanted to launch the site very quickly..
TDot
Wow, that’s pretty bad. Looks like a free template.