The Daily Sucker

Submitter’s comments: I’d like to make my submission to the “daily sucker”.  I think that they break just about every rule.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Not every rule, but enough to qualify as the Daily Sucker. It has a lot of the usual mistakes such as a tacky logo and poor use of color. But it also has an interesting mistake I don’t talk enough about — putting dates on your pages. The Slogans in Education page has a copyright date of 1999 right where you can see it. My initial reaction is, “It’s too old to have any value. I’m not going to read it.” If you have to put a copyright date on a page, then put it at the bottom of the page or say, “Copyright 1999-2007.”

Somebody should write a little Javascript program that outputs, “Last edited XX-XX-XXXX,” where the date is a random date that’s between 5-30 days before today’s date. It would be nice if the Javascript were obfuscated so if someone looked at the source code, you couldn’t tell exactly what the Javascript did.

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