Worst e-commerce site. EVER!

Maplin Electronics recently redesigned their website. They went from a slightly ugly but fully functional design (with, to be fair, a whole load of rough edges) to this monstrosity.

Try and use it. Try and search for something. Try looking at the latest deals. The site's littered with programming errors (getting told there are no matching results for a search at the bottom of a page after about 70 matches; "Now displaying 101 to 100"). It's littered with missing pictures still holding test/placeholder images. It's littered with such monumentally poor design that I wonder if they've bothered actually testing it. It is impossible to use if you have failing sight or restricted movement. It's so utterly bad that I'm going to nominate it for a bad website design award. I thought at first maybe it's one of these websites where they haven't bothered considering Mozilla users and it only works properly under Internet Explorer, so you can imagine my relief/surprise when it looked equally shit in IE.

Seriously. Try and use it. Look at this brilliant example here, the Video and DVD section, and see how many things you can see that are just glaringly poor. (You can have the fact that they include floppy disks in Video and DVD for free.)

Different note - news in brief - my porch ceiling has collapsed due to the weather of late and the leak we've had, and we're getting a DVD recorder. More later.