The Daily Sucker

Submitter’s comments: You got to love this one. You have to chase the menu around screen and when the selected page loads, you get all this colour and movement that add nothing.

Pity that I did not submit their previous incarnation where the user is required to track various objects moving across the home page. Their previous homepage was a seaside scene where there was a lighthouse, a beach umbrella, a seagull flying across the screen, a yacht moving across the screen, a plane in the sky flying across the screen, etc. and the user was required to ‘track’ each moving object before being able/allowed to click on it to select the relevant page. Of course, each moving object/menu item would move behind the lighthouse where you could not click the item.

In fact, the ‘help’ balloons also tracked along with the moving object and would only display when the mouse pointer was tracking the moving object!!! So, it was more like a game than a web site. Pity that the designers did not program a scoring system as well so as to reward the users who were successful in selecting their required menu item.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I was sick for a couple of days and it’s 4:00 a.m. Pacific Time and I decide I should put up a Daily Sucker. I grab an email and click on the link and WTFITS?!?! What The Heck Is This Stuff?!?! It’s only January 8 and I’m pretty sure that we have the worst web site for 2008.

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Submitter’s comments: Where to start? Red text against a yellow background. Random graphics. A combination of font sizes, styles and capitalization that would look more at home on a piece of direct mail.

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Submitter’s comments: The worst site I’ve seen for a long time is Zwilling J.A. Henckels. It starts with an unskipable Flash file that took a full minute to load. No exaggeration. Only when the stupid movie loaded was I allowed to choose a brand. Every subsequent page was so cluttered that it took 10-15 seconds to load.

It’s like I was using a 56k modem again.

The reason I was there was to register a offline purchase. The warranty registration form is a sloppy overlap of the previous page (you have to click on “Click HERE to register for your Warranty”).

If I were there to get purchasing information, I would have given up long before. There’s no way this site is making J.A. Henckels any money.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I guess my internet connection is faster than your connection, which surprises me. Nevertheless, this site makes the Daily Sucker list because of one word: CONTRAST! Well, actually it’s lack of contrast. I ran the above warranty registration form page through the online AccessColor program and received the following message:
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Submitter’s comments: This site is so bad that you can not even link to it if you use it:

• music
• resizes your browser
• frames, lots of frames

Vincent Flanders’ comments: You’re right, I can’t use it because it’s a music site. However, I feel it’s in my best interest to expose this horrible navigation technique to a wider audience.

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