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Cheesy embellishment of an already lost cause is insult to injury. Cheesy embellishment of an already lost cause is insult to injury.

Clown car drivers are typically oblivious to their clown sites which are consistently misspelled, poorly designed, and make a bad impression. If a bozo has turned your website into a clown car, kick him out of the driver's seat, get rid of those killer flamingos, and walk the path of redemption.

Poorly rendered graphics add nothing to the overall look and feel of a web site. If an image adds no visual or informational value, it shouldn't be there.

Flamingos leave telltale piles of bird poop everywhere to mark their territory. The moral is: Don't make people navigate through a minefield of visual dung to see the good stuff you're trying to show them.

Schizophrenic web sites selling everything from puppies to horses to Mary Kay to goat milk soap to survival kits need to focus on their bread and butter and clearly separate content so not to resemble a meandering online rummage sale (usually complete with dead links and inconsistent clown car navigation).



Also, Corgie is spelled Corgi and puppies (plural) is not spelled puppy's. If you sell it, you need to spell it.

Be sure the graphic imagery you use on your web site doesn't conflict with the message of your product. If you're selling child-safe hunter ponies or high powered show horses, using bronc images as an integral element to your theme might not be the subliminal message you'd like to deliver.

Sadly, the campaign for literacy is losing ground every day, and hundreds of equine web sites are leading the charge to establish hillbilly Ebonics as an acceptable alternative to English. Who knew dictionaries were a controlled substance?

Announcing you take credit cards on a dreadful or homemade looking website doesn't instill faith in your visitors. It feels like a scam and makes people run the opposite direction, even if you're 100% legit.



Overused fonts like Bleeding Cowboys do not make your branding look country-hip and edgey, it just makes you look like every other person that used the same font to look country-hip and edgey, which isn't country-hip or edgey whatsoever. Overused fonts likedo not make your branding look country-hip and edgey, it just makes you look like every other person that used the same font to look country-hip and edgey, which isn't country-hip or edgey whatsoever.



In 1996 the font family called Serpentine defined sporty and all things "extreme." Serpentine and its spinoffs has been overused for so long it's become the cliche of extreme and sporty. It doesn't belong on any logo or website of this decade. In 1996 the font family calleddefined sporty and all things "extreme." Serpentine and its spinoffs has been overused for so long it's become the cliche of extreme and sporty. It doesn't belong on any logo or website of this decade.

There's only so much hillbilly you can splatter across your site before people indeed write you off as a hillbilly. This includes unflattering candid photos, "too much" personal information, drama, suspect social networks, or controversial affiliations that reflect poorly on your business. See also: There's only so much hillbilly you can splatter across your site before people indeed write you off as a hillbilly. This includes unflattering candid photos, "too much" personal information, drama, suspect social networks, or controversial affiliations that reflect poorly on your business. See also: shooting yourself in the foot

Don't assume every visitor shares your views on politics and religion, and extend your site's viewers the courtesy of not bludgeoning them with overt political or religious messages. Prosthelytizing and political stumping can backfire and alienate potential business contacts. These are best expressed on separate personal pages, not your agri-business site.

Killer flamingos don't come in ones and twos, they come in herds. Their sole intent is to desecrate your web site with bad spelling, bad design, bad fonts, and prehistoric code.

Killer flamingos have legs made of flimsy wire, so prefer to be transported in clown cars. The clown behind the wheel is therefore their enabler. This is known as a symbiotic relationship.

Clown car drivers only concentrate on making more flamingos, like widgets. They're content to defend the same mistakes year after year and resist the process of non-clown evolution, even to the detriment of their business.

The younger, weaker flamingos are sent to the back of the clown car to learn the ropes from the older flamingos ahead of them. Lack of new ideas or outside influences ensure they'll grow up to be as every bit as destructive as their predecessors.





Clowns substitute made-up words like dtrs instead of spelling out daughters because they're too lazy to communicate using complete words. Your business web site is no place for abbreviated "textspeak." Clowns, stop adding apostrophes to words that are simply plural and not possessive . This includes words like videos and photos, which are often seen on equine web sites with possessive apostrophes.Clowns substitute made-up words like dtrs instead of spelling out daughters because they're too lazy to communicate using complete words. Your business web site is no place for abbreviated "textspeak."

If you are promoting a breeding program of not-so-special horses by a mediocre stallion, the best web site in the world won't make you successful. Rather, it's time to re-think your program from the bottom up and deliver something people want. People are literally giving average and above-average horses away. Don't add to the problem with your own barn blindness.

Ugh, typos. They happen on Craigslist. They happen on professional signage. They even happen on full page color ads for national publications. Don't let them happen to you.

Horses have good or bad conformation, not confirmation. Using the wrong word makes you appear clueless, even if you consider yourself an authority on the subject. Learn to use the word correctly, or you undermine your expertise every time you repeat your mistake in a public place.

Outstandng. This is another one of those ridiculous abbreviations that serves no purpose other than to announce indifference or lack of proofreading skills.

Temperment is not a word, no matter how many web sites use it incorrectly to describe their horse's personality. Temperament, however, is a word. (Dictionaries are our friends.) Also, multiple exclamation points diminish importance and only serve to exaggerate and look hysterical. Use them sparingly, or not at all.