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Wynn Las Vegas website looks like a 1990s CD-ROM
The Wynn Las Vegas is not an old hotel. It opened in 2005 and was last renovated in 2010. It's an exquisite - and, more importantly for the sake of this post, modern - property. Why, then, is its website reminiscent of a CD-ROM menu from 1994? Everything from the frames to the bullet points to the seemingly generic layout built from a template make the site look like it was made on a shoestring budget by the designers of GeoCities. The single most marvelous aspect of the site, however, is the auto-play video that takes up more than half the screen and features 70-year-old Steve Wynn welcoming you to the website and marveling at the wonders of the internet.
Look, all hotel websites are horrible, and the more Flash they use and music they auto-play, the worse they are. But this? This isn't even trying. This is either a joke, a tragic mistake or proof that Steve Wynn has spent too much time in the tanning booth.
What the hell is going on here, Wynn Las Vegas? Did you spend all of your money on the Lake of Dreams?
Filed under: Hotels and Accommodations
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Pete Feb 17th 2012 2:03PM
They used to have a normal site...maybe it's a placeholder until they get a better site up. Or, as my sweetheart just said: "it looks simple enough for someone who is older, vision impaired and a control freak..."
Secret Asian Man Feb 17th 2012 5:29PM
Speaking of auto-play music, what's up with the obnoxious auto-play video? At least hide them after the breaks of each article. I once had three videos playing as soon as I visited the main page.
Why even set to auto-play a video that rehashes the typed articles that it shares the page with? What if I just want to read the articles and then maybe watch the video? Can't do that if the damn video starts playing automatically as it's loaded on blog feed AND article page.
myob1776 Feb 20th 2012 8:50AM
Though it's nice to see I'm not the only one using Weebly.