The Daily Sucker

Submitter’s comments: Here’s another dose of advertising chaos.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I’ll give them credit, somebody knows how to use Flash. Unfortunately, it’s an ADHD cesspool. I was a little surprised to hear a voice say “Feel free to touch it” and a little disconcerted to discover that the #11 search on Google (at that moment) was “brad pitt tattoos.”

It took me a bit to figure out where the important link was located. It took me to another Flash page, which was also strange, but it had information about how to get mobile broadband. My main reaction is “Why?”

Sprint: Plug Into Now

Submitter’s comments: This page was bad, but they’ve made it worse. I like how (at least in Firefox) the heading text is halfway down the page over a bunch of pictures.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Although the home page looks better than most flea market web sites, there’s a subtle, yet major, problem. The home page blows up in Firefox as you can see with these screen captures from BrowserCam. These problems don’t show up in Internet Explorer 7.

The most important HTML tag — TITLE — is the search-engine-unfriendly “http://www.charltonflea.com/” It would be better if it were “Charleston Flea Market and Antiques.”

Charlton Flea Market

Submitter comments: One of my favorite examples.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Proof that you don’t have to speak English to create sucky web pages. It’s a mortal sin to use an image as your content. It’s a 5th ring of hell mortal sin to have a scrunched-up, unreadable image for your content.

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Submitter comments: None

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I was reading an entry in TechCrunch about a baby-naming site. I decided to take a look and here’s part of the message I received:

My response? “Hi. You appear to be incompetent programmers. The worse part is you’re ex-Microsoft employees. I’m using IE7 as this screen capture demonstrates.”

Not helping any claim to competency is the fact that there’s horizontal scrolling.

On the page they ask, “Are we missing a name?” Yes, you’re missing “DumbAss.”

Yes, they’ll fix this pretty soon, but a little testing would have been in order.

What-a-Lovely-Name

I’ve put up another YouTube video. This one is “Don’t Have Stupid People Talking.” It came from a recent Daily Sucker.

You can see all my YouTube videos at…guess where?…YouTube!

Speaking of YouTube videos, my favorite humor site, The Onion, has a hilarious video entitled, YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A ‘Good’ Video. Uh…are they talking about me?

Submitter comments: A friend of mine sent me this website as a “Christmas Present.” Not only does the contact box float across the screen, but it will rebound off the corner when it reaches it! Besides the fabulous contact box we have scrolling boxes, pop out images, and a super bright green and orange layout. I wish all the Christmas presents I received were this excellent!

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Your friend’s taste in presents is…uh…interesting.

One of the major complaints people have about web sites is not being able to find contact information. This site found a unique solution — unfortunately, it sucks but I give them extra points for creativity.

I’ve never seen a page where scrolling went in two different directions. Unique, but also sucky. Like the submitter said, contrast and color choice are problematic and a 1.25Mb page size is excessive.

E-Trade Hub

Submitter comments: Here’s a web site that sucks. Navigation: awful. Layout: awful. Colours: even more than awful.

Finding anything on there seems to be impossible!

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Definitely another contender for worse web site of 2008. Good golly, Miss Molly this sure is a mess. The only possible positive comment I can make is that the navigation in the left frame is basically alphabetical. (Is “basically” good enough? If I were single, would I want to date someone who is “basically” a woman?)

The most important HTML tag — TITLE — is the search-engine-hating “New Page 1.” They shouldn’t feel bad about this gaffe. There are only 5,310,000 other pages on the web with the same text.

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