[detritus]

It's funny for me to read you berating 'web designers', presumably as a profession, because I can't think of ever having seen a professionally-designed website deploying an animated background as egregiously as this site here has. I can sort of vaguely recall a few 'subtly animated geometric backgrounds' over the years, but usually in an experimental context.

The site here looks to my eye to be the product of an enthusiast looking to make their own site and present their own voice - which they have every right to do - not a 'web designer' per se trying to be fancy.

[rplnt]

Videos on background are way too common on product pages - you must have seen many.

[detritus]

I genuinely don't recall ever seing any full background videos on product pages. Large embedded videos, sure.

There was tha fad many years ago for having fairly low quality, low contrast greyscale video set under halftone or pixellated filters to make the apparent quality better, but I'd still class that as not-so intrusive. They tended to be on multi media or 'design'-centric sites anyway.

[lisper]

> presumably as a profession

No, I just meant: people who design web sites. Whether the person who designed it got paid for the work is of no concern to me.

And my comment was intended more as venting of steam than well-considered critique.