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Daily Sucker for Monday, May 12, 2008

May 12th, 2008 1:01 am by Vincent Flanders

Submitter comments: Working with most architects, their web sites are considered well-designed compared to working with their unbearable egos. Even so, you can’t discuss design in any shape or manner with them.

Here’s but yet another bad design by an architectural firm.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: God bless architects’ pointy little heads. When it comes to web design, their industry is truly one that sucks.

You just know those circles are Mystery Meat Navigation. You just know it. Of course they are. Granted, they have a real menu at the top that suffers from poor contrast, but clicking on a link of this Flash menu brings up a whole bunch of other links that have even less contrast.

Clicking on these submenu links doesn’t give you consistent results. You may get new links that are Mystery Meat, or a new set of “regular links,” or you may get content. I’m hoping this firm doesn’t use this type of navigation in the buildings they design or like Theseus in the labyrinth of the Minotaur, you’ll need a ball of string to find your way back (I’ve got to find some way to use my degree in Classics).

What in the hell does their name mean? C’mon, CUH2A? Besides being pretentious (it would be like calling myself “FLANman”), they’re wasting the TITLE tag’s importance in search engine optimization.

Speaking of sucky architecture sites, here’s a whole host of other sucky architectural web sites.

CUH2A

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