Web Pages That Suck - learn good web design by looking at bad web design

Submitter comments: Checking out the top ten blogs on Myspace today, I found that they all sucked.

Here’s #1: Possibly NSWF. I didn’t really examine it for content, just to see how badly it sucked.

Here’s #10: NSWF.

The ones in between are no different in kind.

Oh, here’s another one. There’s no globe, just an ugly web page. This isn’t an entire website that sucks, but it certainly (tautologically) qualifies as a web page, and it certainly sucks (no matter what you think of the contents, which I didn’t have the patience to read, because the page sucked so much): Rejection of Pascal’s Wager.

P.S. Why am I visiting Myspace at all? I’m trying to make sense of the phenomenon of these social networking sites.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: The email came from GlobeGuy, one of my favorite contributors. Normally, I wouldn’t consider using Myspace since these are personal web pages, but there is something interesting at work here. I just signed up for a Myspace page and the default template, Blue Rounded, is certainly OK. Several other templates are OK, too. The design problems start when people start being “creative.”

Unfortunately, our educational system doesn’t place a high value on aesthetics and so we get results like those shown above.

Oh, GlobeGuy. Try Mashable for social networking news and when you understand why people are so in love with these sites, let me know.