21to21.com » Werror http://www.21to21.com Adventures In Online Business Building Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:25:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Coke Got It! YEAAAA http://www.21to21.com/2009/11/07/coke-got-it-yeaaaa/ http://www.21to21.com/2009/11/07/coke-got-it-yeaaaa/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:28:22 +0000 Andrew Anderson http://www.21to21.com/?p=1387

Coke Got It!  YEAAAAA.   Coke finally got it and changed their website design.

After half a dozen emails, and a bunch of blog posts,they finally got the message. They are also going to lose their Darwin Dodo Design Award that I gave to them last month as well. It is a good thing. I am glad that they finally changed their Website.

There are some great lessons to learn from this story.  Watch the video and you see what I am talking about.

They went from this…

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to this…

Coke_OldDon’t you think it looks better?

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Design Dodo Award

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Coke-Cola’s main Website has won the first ever Darwin Website Design Dodo Award ™ for their design of www.Coke.com .

This award is handed out for Website designs that show the best of why Dodo’s are now extinct and only live on in books and stuffed in Museums.   These designs have no branches in their family tree of design and are perhaps best represented by a stick.

The reason why Coke has received the first design award is because of what I thought was a mistake, but Coke’s PR department proceeded to send the following email:

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Hi Anderson,

Hope that you are well.

I’ve confirmed there is not an error on the web page, it was an intentional stylistic design decision.

Have a great afternoon.

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I ended up contacting both Coke and Berkshire Hathaway which is Warren Buffett’s Company which is Coke’s largest stockholder.

The Darwin Website Design Dodo award is not given to necessarily to honest mistakes or even ugly designs, but for those designs that defy common sense.  In this case, they have consciously covered up part of a Logo that could arguably be said to be worth Billions based on whimsy or someone actually not catching it.  For this, Coke’s Website Designers receive the soon to be coveted Darwin Website Design Dodo Award for  a Website.

Here is a picture of it. You be the judge…                  Click on the Image to see it full size.

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You can go here to see the Coke Website Design Live for yourself.

The reason why I feel qualified to hand out this design Award is that I myself have designed some pretty darn ugly and bad designs and this will help remind me and others, perhaps even you, not to do these types of things on a Website.

If you have other designs that you would like to submit, please make a comment below.  I am thinking about awarding a Darwin Website Design Dodo Award on an as needed basis, perhaps even Monthly.

Would love to hear your thoughts…

Cheers,

Anderson

PS  I have to say that the PR people at both Coke and Berkshire Hathaway were very nice and helpful.  I never did speak with the Website designer at Coke though.  Would like to know what was running through their mind when they did this wouldn’t you?

Coke and Coke-Cola are registered trademarks of  The Coca-Cola Company

]]> http://www.21to21.com/2009/10/24/coke-gets-first-ever-21to21-com-darwin-website-design-dodo-award/feed/ 1 Day 22 Of The Coke Werror http://www.21to21.com/2009/10/08/day-22-of-the-coke-werror/ http://www.21to21.com/2009/10/08/day-22-of-the-coke-werror/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:54:31 +0000 Andrew Anderson http://www.21to21.com/?p=1271 werrors_cokeDay 22 of the Coke web error or werror and counting…And I have still not heard anything back from Coke or Warren Buffet.
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The funny thing is that Fast Company is doing a story on Coke design this month.

I am posting the video, the picture, and the iframe so that you can see of which I speak. Basically, their nav bar covers up the bottom 1/4 of their logo.

I did the vid a few weeks ago to explain what I am talking about…

Click On Image To See Full Size

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This should be a live iframe of Coke to see if it is still there.  If you hover over the logo, you can see what is going on.

Anyway, we shall see how much longer this continues. Who would have thunk it would be like this for over 3 weeks and no one at Coke would catch it?

Have you seen any other Werrors out there? If so, let me know about them and we will post them here. I am thinking about doing a regular feature on them once a week.

Cheers,
Anderson

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And no, I have not heard from Coke or Warren Buffet yet…. will let you know….

You can click here to see exactly what I am talking about…

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]]> http://www.21to21.com/2009/09/27/coke-werror-day-11/feed/ 0 Coke Werror Day 9 And Counting http://www.21to21.com/2009/09/25/coke-werror-day-9-and-counting/ http://www.21to21.com/2009/09/25/coke-werror-day-9-and-counting/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:06:15 +0000 Andrew Anderson http://www.21to21.com/?p=1130 I think that I am going to quit doing a daily update on the whole Coke werror and just let you know when or if they ever get it fixed.  Coke still bubbles on…   :)

]]> http://www.21to21.com/2009/09/25/coke-werror-day-9-and-counting/feed/ 0 Day 8 Of The Coke Werror…. Geeshe.. http://www.21to21.com/2009/09/24/day-8-of-the-coke-werror-geeshe/ http://www.21to21.com/2009/09/24/day-8-of-the-coke-werror-geeshe/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:04:10 +0000 Andrew Anderson http://www.21to21.com/?p=1127 werrors_cokeOK, I am getting bored here posting about this now.  Can someone explain to me how a major company can have an werror on the main Web page for at least 8 days?  This could have been like this for weeks or months for all I know.

Now I don’t want to fling stones here as I have said before I have pulled similar mistakes before in the past and have taken steps so that we don’t do that anymore.  But this is a multi-billion dollar company, geeshe.

OK, I am done now.   Have some cool things that I am working on at the moment and may get them posted by the end of the day..

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Werror Day 6

Day 6 of the werror (web error) on the main page over at Coke.  No call from Warren Buffet or email from him either and the same goes for Coke.

Might see if I can get through the switchboard at Coke or at Berkshire Hathaway if I have the time but we have a launch coming up and that is in rather short supply.  Definitely a lesson for us all.  :)

Also I will post another really good free tool to help you avoid things exactly like this on your own site and how to have a much more profitable website.  I also  explain why I wrote that sentence exactly the way I did.

Here is a hint…. how would you like me to show you where to gain an audience as large as your current one that I can almost with 100% certainty say that you nor no one else is targeting at all no matter what niche you are in?

I kid you not… kind of a mind blowing marketing mega secret that I have decided to share with you soon.

Cheers,

Anderson

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