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Webdesign is all-important when it comes to catching the eye of the visitor and encouraging him or her to stick around and read your content. Unfortunately, some pages are more attractive than others. As a Freemason, I'm familiar with Masonic webpages featuring lots of bling such as rotating Squares & Compasses. These are deeply embarrassing when discovered. They might attract the eye at the start, but if you wait for a while they become objectionable.

The Government of Assam State in India has a website. You may be aware that there is a degree of unrest there having to do with clashes between the local Bodo people, who are either animists or Christians, and Muslims who are suspected of being illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. The BBC News website offered the link above, and I thought I would take a look.

Almost everything moves, or changes size, or blinks at you. My eyes hurt. They need a redesign urgently that will catch the eye without looking like a website designed by Bollywood directors and set designers.

If you follow the link to this badly-designed webpage take care! Your eyesight may be damaged irreparably.

I think that this entry in the RISKS list yesterday might be right up your webdesign alley.