The Daily Sucker

Submitter comments: Vincent, Castlewood Stables’ web site has several things about it that suck:

1. Animated GIFs of horses racing. Animated GIFs are so nineties!
2. Several of the links, especially at the top of the page, link to PDF files — and they don’t tell you this!
3. The photos down the left side of the page don’t do anything but add visual clutter.
4. Some of the text is centered.
5. I’m not sure on this one, but it seems like the text and background colors may not pass your contrast test.
6. Oh, and “must-see” should be hyphenated.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Yesterday brought back memories of final exams and today brings back memories of when my sister and I took equestrian lessons. Yes, it’s true. Vincent rode a horse — English style. It’s an incredible feeling when you and a horse go over a jump and it’s pretty interesting when the horse goes over and you go under the jump. Of course, I was young and stupid and the two most terrifying words in equestrian circles (Christopher Reeve) were years away.

In addition to the comments above (#5 is accurate. There are some contrast issues, but the regular text is OK), I’ll mention the navigation is below the fold and navigation is missing on some of the sub-pages (unless you consider the BACK button as navigation).

Kill the background image and organize the information into separate pages.

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