Web Design is Dead

Web design is certainly dead on that site. Unless web design is about slapping visitors straight in the face with a series of irrelevant intrusive irritating adverts.

<p><pre><code> Web design is certainly dead on that site. </code></pre> Indeed. Ghostery shows the following external sites hit from <i>one load</i> of <i>this one page</i>:<p>Bluekai<p>Facebook Connect<p>Google Adsense<p>Google Analytics<p>Optimizely<p>outbrain<p>Parse-ly<p>Pinterest<p>Scorecard Research Beacon<p>ShareThrough<p>SoundCloud<p>Twitter Advertising<p>Twitter Button