The Daily Sucker

Submitter comments: Vincent, I don’t know how I keep stumbling across a bunch of sites that really suck — but I just did it again, when looking for the address of a restaurant where a live remote from the radio station we wake up to here in St. Louis is scheduled to be tomorrow morning (or this morning by the time you read this).

It’s for a restaurant called Reynolds Roadhouse, and their site sucks due to the following no-nos:

1) They’ve got out-of-date information on their homepage from almost five months ago (yes, the same morning radio crew mentioned there is scheduled to be there tomorrow morning, too).

2) The very same text on their homepage is on some other pages, too.
Again, the same crap that’s way the heck out of date.

3) Poor contrast.

4) I was looking all over for the address of this joint so that I could look it up on Mapquest (I’m thinking about going over there tomorrow morning), but their address is nowhere to be found.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: There’s a simple reason why you keep stumbling across sucky web sites — you’re surfing the web.

I don’t remember seeing a restaurant web site without an address. That’s a new, bad concept. On the other hand, I did find a phone number so I guess you could call for the address, but that defeats the purpose of having a website. It’s possible their menu had the address except that I don’t like to download Microsoft Word documents. Oh. Why are they forcing you to download an MS Word document?

The biggest problem is lack of contrast. As AccessColor points out:

Both color difference and color brightness do not meet the recommended standard for 17.97% of the total text.

Either color difference or color brightness does not meet the recommended standard for 75.78% of the total text.

Reynolds Roadhouse