The Daily Sucker

Submitter’s comments: This web site looks like it was created as an example what NOT to do.

• There is no MMN and no background music, but we have:
• Mixture of fonts, some of which almost unreadable (”Monotype Corsiva” / “French Script MT”)
• Images instead of text (right column)
• Unreadable text because of lack of contrast
• Animated/blinking GIFs all over the place
• “Never-ending” bold text on front page

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Normally, I wouldn’t use this site because it looks like a personal page. Then I thought, “He’s like Bob the Locksmith or Bill the Consultant — trying to drum up business.” Fair game.

This site is also really good example of Mistake #5 from my Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015 — Have you ever seen another web site? Really? Doesn’t look like it.

Consistency in design is missing. Many pages look like they belong to a different web site. The TITLE tags are not correctly formed and are not search engine friendly. The text on the home page is not aligned correctly — you’ll have 14 words on one line and 3 on the next followed by another line of 14 words. What does the link entitled, “More” mean?

Nuke it. Start over. Read some design books or pay someone.

Jonathan D. Crombie