Worst Websites
Daily Sucker #2 for Tuesday, October 28, 2008
October 28th, 2008 2:02 am by Vincent Flanders
Submitter comments: Have I found a website for you. The place is called Mahogany’s Coffeehouse & Bar. Their website is www.mahoganyslive.com This has got to be one of the worst websites that I have ever seen.
When you first click to visit the site, an image of the bar appears and you have to click to enter the site. If you stay long enough on this page and scroll down a calendar of events page finally loads beneath the picture.
The menu page is absolutely unreadable. They used a script font and then saved it as a picture and placed it on the site. I have no idea what they serve.
They have not checked out their cross-browser compatibility. For the site that it is, the placement looks okay in Internet Explorer, but check it out in Firefox. Nothing is where is should be. Everything is all screwed and nothing is where is should be. I haven’t checked it out in Opera or Netscape, but I would bet it is screwed up there.
This should win a prize for the worst web site ever. Someone should seriously redesign their site.
Vincent Flanders’ comments: It’s pretty easy to check what your site looks like in different browsers. I checked out this site’s home page using BrowserCam and here’s what the site looks like. I only checked it in Firefox, Safari, and Chrome on Windows because I didn’t want you to wade through over 125 different combinations of browsers and operating systems.
It’s even easier to fix the stupid Splash page. Delete it. You don’t need a splash page. I’m amazed that my system has the script font that’s used on the Menu page. It truly is unreadable.
What’s going to be impossible to fix is the code used to generate this site. It’s straight out of Microsoft Publisher 10. I think there’s a special place in hell reserved for the Microsoft employees who created the Publisher-to-HTML conversion feature. Take a look at what passes for code. If I were a programmer and I produced crap like this, I’d go start a coffee shop.
Another problem I discovered with Firefox is that the home page downloads about a billion CSS files that have something to do with the calendar. This is even worse programming than my Microsoft example. Yikes.
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