I've got to be honest and to come straight to the point, I think that most websites are well, poor. The reason for this is that so called 'web designers' aren't designers at all. They are most likely computer geeks who have no idea of the basic concepts of design. Sorry if you're a web designer and are reading this but design requires a way of thinking which most of you don't seem to have. In most cases a website exists to convey information. This is its prime function. Users want to access this information as quickly and easily as possible. So why make it unnecessarily complicated? I'm perhaps being a little unfair to use the BBC weather site as a platform for a general rant about websites but of all the sites which I use the BBC's is one of the worst. The graphics on the the weather site are cheap and nasty and the layout is ill thought out. Some time ago I was looking at the 'map' and needed a key to read it but couldn't find it anywhere. I scrolled down a little and hey! Map Key! Just off the screen. Brilliant. Why couldn't the key have been placed next to the map? Why did I have to click on the words 'Map Key' to open it. For no other reason than because web designers love to have buttons to click on. Why? Because they're web designers. Furthermore the key itself is not straightforward. The colour for heavy frost is the same as that for lightish rain. And that slider underneath the map; come ON! Slick, concise and logic are not words that appear in the web designer's dictionary. While I'd like to have a pop at the so called accuracy of weather forecasting in general I realise that this is not the place for it but I'm intrigued to know why the BBC weather forecasts are frequently different from the Met Office's when the BBC obtain their information from the Met.