Web Pages That Suck -- Examples of Bad Web Design

These are the Daily Suckers -- Examples of Bad Web Design -- from WebPagesThatSuck.com. I couldn't predict every new sucky design technique that would come along when I wrote the book because there's always a new way to do something bad. This page will keep you up-to-date. Live examples.

My definition of "daily" is "whenever I'm in the mood."


Date Wednesday, July 28, 2004

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My comments: Liar Liar Pants On Fire. I was telling someone about what I thought was one of the best TV commercials. It came from Canada and it was called, "Cam's Breast Exam." It's stark raving hysterical. I went to try to find the video on the Internet and I discovered a link to it on AdForum.

What makes this site the Daily Sucker is the link entitled, "Play this video (FREE)" Guess what? The jerks make the link go to a page where you have to pay to see the video.

The good news is I finally found a site that has the link. EVEN THOUGH THE COMMERCIAL IS FUNNY, IT'S PROBABLY NOT WORK APPROPRIATE. Cam's Breast Exam (click on low res or high res)

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Wednesday, July 28, 2004

The Daily Sucker Backgrounder

The Daily Sucker contains material that should be considered updates to the book, "Web Pages That Suck." and Son of Web Pages That Suck. I can't see the future -- if I could, I'd be picking lottery numbers and stocks. The Daily Sucker features new sucky design techniques not in existence when the book was written. Since Web designers are stubborn, I also include old sucky techniques featured in the book. Maybe if they see a bad technique featured enough they'll stop using it.

The suckers are based on user input. You see a site that you think sucks and then e-mail the URL to me. No personal pages (personal pages are supposed to reflect the individual's personality, artistic freedom, and lack of taste -- a commercial site is about making money) or Web site designers (it would look like a conflict of interest). If I think there's some merit to your selection, I post it along with some commentary -- and quality commentary helps determine whether I use the suggestion. If you know of a site that qualifies, let me know.

The sucky example will usually be available for only 24 hours (or thereabouts -- weekends and egregious examples are exceptions) -- never to be seen again. Well, probably. Somebody could always suggest them again -- and they do.

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