Oh this is priceless. So we’re trying to check the Wieden + Kennedy site to see if they have a particular client and we get lost in a bunch of Flashturbation in the agency’s “work we’ve done” section (thanks for making it so easy to find a client by name, guys) so we bail and check into the html site figuring we’d leave all the puffery behind but no, we get this egoistic blather:
“You will need to install a couple of plug-ins to fully experience our site. That is not because this is another one of those mindlessly flashy Web sites that give you a headache and make you wonder how you could ever sit through a meeting with those people; it’s just that there are a couple of cool things we’d like to share with you, and you won’t be able to enjoy them without having Flash and QuickTime on your computer. No big deal. Click here to get Flash. Click here to get QuickTime. And if you know you already have them, then click here to enter. Have a nice visit.”
What a load of pompous bullshit. If you are going to provide separate Flash and HTML sites then make each fully functional on their own. So yes, W + K, we do wonder why you have a “mindlessly flashy Web site that gives you a headache and makes you wonder how you could ever sit through a meeting with those people.”
