I was going to write a healthy rant about the bundle of fail that is Yahoo!’s new “start wearing purple” campaign, but it pretty much took care of itself. Just go have a look:
Reasons why this is total fail:
- it’s a marketing campaign about NOTHING
- Yahoo! clearly outsourced the development of this website – because it’s not like that’s what we do… websites…
- perhaps even more hilarious is the evidence for this: whoever did the website used mootools instead of YUI; gotta commend the sense of humor – a website all about getting people pumped up about Yahoo! using a library that is pretty much in direct competition with one of Yahoo!’s own.
- the worst part is that whoever they outsourced it to did a terrible job, in my opinion. I could catalog the reasons, but I’ll just let you roll your mouse over one of the pictures and see for yourself. Fancy animation does not a quality website make.
Yahoo! is a great place to work, and I really can’t complain about it too much, but things like this really make me wonder who was asleep at the wheel when this was getting pushed through. I bet someone gets a huge raise for this too.