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Poor website design for a design conference

The NW Design Collaborative is holding a festival for Portland design (print, industrial, digital) in October. Their website, while pretty, shows an appalling lack of design. The graphics are gorgeous, but what's with the itty graphical text at the bottom? Repurposed print flyer? To find out anything about the conference, you have to open Flash in a separate window and sit through a 12-second intro (with no skip button). The navigation consists of cryptic terms: worth, quality, use, merit, and credit, which have nothing to do with the content you see when you click on them. The cursor over the scrollbar changes to a hand as if the scrollbar were a link. Oh, and my main goal was to find out the time and location of the conference. I couldn't find them. Sorry for the Monday morning tirade; bad design makes me cranky.