The Daily Sucker

Submitter’s comments: OK. I think I just found the worst web page in the world, or at least the second worst, after AJFF. Especially the fireworks on the home page are, well, at least irrelevant for a site with accordion sheet music and aesthetically not very pleasing, not to say, extremely ugly. Then there are all those moving words, horizontal scrollbars at 1024 x 768. Over half of it has enough contrast though, for example /valse.htm:

1. Both color difference and color brightness do not meet the recommended standard for 2.64% of the total text.
2. Either color difference or color brightness does not meet the recommended standard for 43.35% of the total the text.

BTW, this site IS actually still being updated: ” Page à jour le  22  JANVIER   2008″  (Page dates of 01/22/2008)

Vincent Flanders’ comments: It’s nice to see someone else using AccessColor to check out a web site.

As a typical American, I don’t speak a second language. However, the TITLE tag “partitions musicales gratuites + à user et même abuser sans modération” looks to me like it says “a gratuitous user abuses without moderation.”

This web site is certainly abused without moderation.

partitions musicales gratuites

Submitter’s comments: I’ve stopped by this site a couple of times. He´s not that bad when it comes to programming and interface for that matter. But the look is terrible.

I actually tried to do a little research on the guy, and it turns out he´s serious about this.

Anyway, check it out.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: You have to love the title of the home page “Forsidden,” which translates to “front page.” Duh. This is really helpful for the search engines when they come by to index your site

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Submitter’s comments: Flash gone gangrenous.

1. Two (2) Consecutive Skip Intros.
2. BIG INTROS. It takes about 20 seconds to load each one, OVER CABLE.
3. The Skip link doesn’t show up in either until the load is finished.
4. There is no way to link directly to the first “real” page.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I discuss one of my favorite mistakes in Why You Can’t Use Music On Your Web Site. It always amazes me that people think they have the legal right to put music files on their web sites without paying royalties.

I have to admit that I’m stunned by two FlashSplash page. TWO! Making the situation as stupid as a knife in a gunfight is the fact that you’ll click everywhere but “Skip” to try to go to the home page that doesn’t exist. You have to click “Skip ” to get to the next intro and then click “Skip” again to get to the home page. On the plus side, on your next visit there’s only one FlashSplashPage — but that’s one FlashSplashPage too many.

LaModa Salon

Submitter’s comments: My wife and I just finished watching tonight’s episode Extreme Makeover Home Edition and tonight’s episode involved the Freedom Hills Therapeutic Riding Program.

After the show, I was curious to see if they had a web site, and yes, they do. However, on their main page, they’ve got text that runs right over a small collage of photos, which naturally fouls up the contrast. Not to mention, I’m sure the text over the right end of everything in the navigation column likely wouldn’t pass muster with your contrast analyzer, either.

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Submitter’s comments: I was reading about the City of Brooksville on your web site and it made me think of Jefferson County. It’s a very busy site.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I think this site is interesting because just a few changes would improve the site’s look by at least 75%:

1. Get rid of the horrific, “Holy Mother of God this sucks like a black hole” background image.
2. Replace those horrible-remind-me-of-AndyArt-in-1996 navigation buttons with text links or better looking graphics.
3. Get rid of those horrible list-item buttons.
4. Replace those horrible “Government & People,” “Natural Resources,” etc., buttons with text links or better looking graphics.
5. Get rid of the scrolling text.
6. Eliminate the Dreamweaver template code.

The home page is about 396Kb and removing the images or creating better, optimized images would cut down on bandwidth.

Jefferson County Florida

How I spent my Friday, Saturday and most of Sunday:

I hate Easy Media Creator 10 (and 9). It took forever to get 9 installed and even then I couldn’t write DVDs. That didn’t bother me because I had other programs that filled in for that function. Like a complete, total idiot I buy the full version of 10 and try to install it. Won’t happen because of some old versions of other software programs. The installation stopped and rolled back.

Like a complete, absolute, total idiot I go in and rename ONE file that was allegedly a Roxio file (drvmcdb.sys) and reboot the system. BSOD with an error code only three suspicious Chinese sites had any info about. Even Microsoft didn’t have info about the code. No emergency boot disk I had would work (thank you Acronis) so my backups were useless. Oh, and I can’t get to my e-mail in Outlook and there were four speaking inquiries that had just come in.

As a last, desperate measure I created a bootable Knoppix OS disk and went in, booted up my PC and re-renamed the file and lo and behold Windows works and my computer works. Knoppix Rocks!

What do you use to create CDs and DVDs. I’m obviously in the market for something that works on my XP system.

Submitter’s comments: Here’s a web site that sucks!

Vincent Flanders’ comments: The site is 1996 frozen in time. Seriously. I hope they don’t fix the site because it’s a great reference point. Where else can you see an an animated 3-D logo? Where else can you see those two stock 1996 background images on the same page? Where else are you going to see links to the home pages at the bottom of the sub-pages? All this and Frames. Lordy! This is wonderful. It’s like visiting Colonial Williamsburg except it’s on the web.

City of Brooksville, Florida