Creative “Coming Soon” Webpage

By Robert Birming in Blogs & Internet on Nov 4, 2007 at 1:27 pm

The Dutch company Hema is in the process of launching a webshop. Instead of just throwing up a boring “Coming soon” webpage, they came up with something creative.

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  1. tobot
    Nov 4th, 2007 at 4:04 pm

    little tip …. the loading page looks like its gone, but just wait a while.

  2. cuimhne
    Nov 4th, 2007 at 4:28 pm

    That’s very clever, and completely unexpected!

  3. stacyj
    Nov 4th, 2007 at 4:55 pm

    How clever and entertaining! I hope they had as much fun making it as it is to watch …

  4. L
    Nov 4th, 2007 at 7:14 pm

    It’s not “coming soon” for me. I don’t have an hour to sit and wait for it to load! Too slow…

  5. biltmore
    Nov 4th, 2007 at 9:01 pm

    Haha … that’s awesome.

  6. James Schend
    Nov 4th, 2007 at 9:03 pm

    Wow, now there’s a dot com that’s guaranteed to be out of business in a year’s time. I can’t believe they wasted so much development effort on something so pointless and, frankly, customer-hostile. “It only took 40 minutes to load, but it looks like I can shop for a teakettle– what the fuck!?”

  7. Miss Cellania
    Nov 4th, 2007 at 10:26 pm

    It took about ten seconds to load for me. Then it was really fun!

  8. Keleborn
    Nov 4th, 2007 at 11:19 pm

    Yeah me too, that was pretty quick for me

  9. ted
    Nov 4th, 2007 at 11:43 pm

    Took maybe ten seconds. If it took 40 minutes, get off of dialup.

  10. Chris
    Nov 4th, 2007 at 11:53 pm

    Fast and neat.
    and w/DSL of course.

  11. James Schend
    Nov 5th, 2007 at 8:41 am

    Maybe 40 minutes is an exaggeration, but it’s still a terrible customer experience and it’s still a lot of talent and time that could have been spent making their ACTUAL store better. This is just their version of the $2 million Superbowl commercials.

  12. ruby
    Nov 5th, 2007 at 9:42 am

    It was worth making me smile and even though I don’t speak Dutch, (or whatever they speak,) I am interested in the company. I say it was worth it!

  13. L
    Nov 5th, 2007 at 12:24 pm

    I’m not on dial-up, and it still took forever. I tried again, and it took about five minutes to load. It was neat until it got about halfway through and then hung.

    Cool idea, but poorly executed.

  14. tomtheman5
    Nov 5th, 2007 at 3:25 pm

    You think this company will fail?

    The purpose of this website was to generate a buzz. And I’m fairly certain it’s done a good job with that.

    Now let’s see if it can maintain that…

  15. Jim B
    Nov 6th, 2007 at 2:34 am

    It says ghettoblaster under the radio, the only other english is pan and confetti

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