Found a site trying to use an emoji as a background-image

I was browsing a local bakery's website last night (looking for a birthday cake for my niece) and something looked... off. The whole background was just a repeated smiling face emoji, like someone typed :D a hundred times and called it a day. Turns out they had a CSS rule where the background-image URL was literally just the emoji character, no quotes, no fallback. I laughed for a solid 5 minutes before closing the tab. Has anyone else seen a site try to use emojis as actual images instead of, you know, real pictures?

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holly_flores792d ago

Ever had one of those "how is this even running" moments? My buddy runs a small auto repair shop and he hired some kid off Fiverr to build his website. Kid used a dog emoji as the favicon and the whole contact form was just a screenshot of a phone number. Not even clickable, just a jpeg of the number. Took him three months to notice why nobody was booking appointments.

josephb352d ago

Oh man, that is painful! It's wild how something like a non-clickable screenshot basically kills the whole point of having a website. I've seen a few similar disasters where people paid for a "professional" site and got something that looked straight out of 2004 with broken links everywhere. Makes you wonder if the kid just watched one YouTube tutorial and called it a day.