2004 Loerie Festival website

Evangelism from the trenches a 9th floor London flat

Please tell me this is a joke - the 2004 Loerie Festival website. The Loeries are internationally recognised as the largest and most prestigious creative awards in South Africa, which is organised and run by the MFSA.

(Yes, yes... awards. What Jarred Cinman said roughly five years ago ("Is that a Loerie in your pocket, or are you trying to do business?"), is what I'd probably have said a few days ago...)

The Loerie website loads in a frameset that's built using JavaScript, while the site frame tries to sit in the centre of the browser and fails miserably. Firstly, frames aren't required. Secondly, neither is JavaScript. I'd be embaressed to take credit for it, but Amorphous seem proud of their efforts. A visit to their own website in Firefox leaves one with the following message: "detecting macromedia flash, please wait..." and nothing else. If you visit in their required browser (IE/Win) their popup takes over your entire desktop. Lovely.

Amorphous (founded in 1998) are also responsible for the abortion that is Nedbank.co.za.

Sies tog, they should know better.