Thank Gawd for this thing.
Sometimes a nabob or nitwit will ask me what my idea of good design is. I don't know what to say. And I freeze up if they couch it in that obscurantist and emptyheaded jargon they teach in classrooms (yes, believe it or not, some people actually Go to School to learn this stuff)...rubbishy buzzwords about Usability and Accessibility and Best Practices.
But I CAN say..."Better if I tell you what a really BAD site looks like." And I steer them to BravoTV.com.
If I'm feeling generous, I can study the site closely and make out what looks to be the skeletal conception of the thing. Banner ad on top, logo underneath, links at right, rest of page anchored by this skewed wide-format video still.
Somewhere in the Edenic prehistory of the site, in the Mind of its Prime Designer, this layout may have once been a Force for Good.
But now all those endless bloglinks and the ads for dogfood and visible pantyliners...just somehow...get in the way.

