The Daily Sucker

Submitter’s comments: Hi Vincent, I stumbled across this web site and I just wanted you to take a look at it - I think you will love it ;-)

Vincent Flanders’ comments: If, by “you will love it,” you mean “I will hate it,” then you’re right. Lack of contrast, graphics for text, and really cheesy graphics are a hallmark of this site. I’m not sure what they support, but their site makes me against it — even if I’m for it. That makes as much sense as the site.

Industries for Africa

Submitter’s comments: Hello Vincent, I have found, sigh…, another contender that has a horrible web design.

The web site is just ugly. Long pages, large images, you name it. When you click on their links, the pain does not stop. It leads to more madness! Not only their links is uglier, guess what they have: FRAMES!  I have a bad feeling that this web site could be one of the worst real estate web sites that I have ever seen.

To sum things up, it is just a huge (Document Size: 344KB) and ugly (bad web design) web site

Vincent Flanders’ comments: With the housing industry having such horrible times, now is NOT the time for any company in the industry to have a sucky web site.

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Submitter’s comments: I came across this web site looking for some info about the town of Groombridge in the South East UK.

Visually the site is not that bad, but the question is : Why use images for text ? This makes this web site inaccessible and virtually unmaintainable.

Plus the color theme is different on each page, as if there wasn’t enough bandwidth wasted already.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I like this example a lot. It’s a Subtle Sucker. Your initial reaction is “Why did you use it?” but the mistake of using images for text is actually a huge mistake.

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Submitter’s comments: I found this site while researching the bizarre “Secret.” Click on “Marie Diamond, Feng Shui Consultant.” It’s Flash, so there’s no new URL.

Just remember what she says on her site: The Universal Laws of Life attracted you to this website. Ouch!

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I don’t know a thing about Feng Shui, but I am the world’s expert on web pages that suck or Bad Web Feng Shui, and this page sucks. Once again, we have issues with contrast. I ran the home page through AccessColor and was told “Either color difference or color brightness does not meet the recommended standard for 66.67% of the total the text.” Bad Feng Shui.

Initially, I thought the blurry picture was bad web feng shui, but then I remembered the picture on the “Secret” site. It’s like looking at someone after you’ve drunk six beers. I guess that’s true. I’ve never had more than a sip of beer in my life and my last sip was more than 30 years ago. Beer tastes like what I think yak urine would taste like.

Marie Diamond Feng Shui

Submitter’s comments: CONTRAST!! This one’s a blog, so I don’t know if it counts. I like this guy, I’m from MN, He’s from MN, he’s a great pitcher for the Minnesota Twins, it’s a great blog, but please DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE CONTRAST!!! AGH, MY EYES!!

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Another site featuring my pet peeve — lack of contrast between text and background. Once again, I ran the home page through AccessColor and was told “Both color difference and color brightness do not meet the recommended standard for 39.24% of the total text.”

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Submitter’s comments: I’ll be surprised if this site hasn’t been offered for your consideration previously! It is, as you will see, a miraculous collection of unreadable text, mysterious images, hidden navigation and questionable functionality; still worse, a large sum of money was paid to create this mess.

Although we can say that is passes cursory accessibility tests for the differently-abled. It may be the first web site in history where blindness actually enhances the user experience.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: When I first viewed the site in Internet Explorer, I assumed it was designed to work only in Firefox. Nope. It’s messed up in both browsers.

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Submitter’s comments: “This site is best viewed at a 1280×1024 pixels monitor resolution. Click here for instructions on how to change your monitor resolution.”

It’s all jumbled in Firefox, too. I can’t get to some of the links behind the Flash animation.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: And don’t forget my number one pet peeve: Lack of contrast between the text and the background. Small white text on an orange background just doesn’t cut it.

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