Submitter’s comments: Don’t know whether or not this site has been covered but I was searching through google, don’t ask me what, and I stumbled upon this site and my eyes bled. Submitted for your approval: Cow Dance Wear
Vincent Flanders’ comments: It’s Thanksgiving here in the United States, which means we eat turkey. Speaking of turkeys, today’s site is certainly a turkey. Hopefully, you won’t get ill.
I’m willing to bet that everyone but the designer can see all the mistakes.
Submitter’s comments: I think that chiropractic websites must attract horrible design:
Vincent Flanders’ comments: I think you’re right. Obviously, this site was designed on a 640×480 monitor. If you look at it on anything larger, the content runs over the border as illustrated by these BrowserCam screen captures. There are four screen captures of the first screen at different resolutions and four captures after the PAGE DOWN key was hit. See for yourself.
Submitter’s comments: This thing is horrible — and they PAID for it!!!
Vincent Flanders’ comments: You have to love the way text is arranged on the Office Hours page and the fact there’s no link to the home page. Yes, it’s “under construction,” but still. The image of the spinal cord on the left freaks me out because it looks like a poisonous snake is going up and down the spine. There’s no reason for the animated spine on the right side and I don’t have to tell you (but I have to tell them) that cube in the middle sucks worse than a $20 vacuum cleaner.
Frames suck, but they suck even more when the links open in a new window (the few I tried). If you’re going to open new windows, you don’t need frames. The background in the left frame is ugly as are the buttons. There’s a delicious irony that the h2h page — yes, that’s the “helpful” title — has a GooglePageRank of 3, but the Home Page has a page rank of 0.
The list of mistakes goes on and on. Nuke it and start over.
Vincent Flanders’ comments: Here’s an article about an incredibly sucky site from a major company. I think we’ve got another contender for Worst of 2008. The site is called BEA — The Beginning of Business. I think it should be called BEA — The Beginning of Bad Web Design.
Note to the author of the article: Nobody’s more surprised than I am that the site is still here. I didn’t think it would last thirteen weeks — much less thirteen years. On the other hand, I should have known because there’s a limited amount of good web design and an infinite amount of bad web design on the web.
Submitter comments: I went to this site to find information on some electronic components, and I found what I was looking for quickly. Their search tools work, and there is a refresing lack of complex scripts that crash my browser or otherwise waste time.
On the other hand, you can tell these people are in an industry that is utterly devoid of aesthetic sense. I wonder if Mr. T is getting paid for this?
Vincent Flanders’ comments: What a wonderful example for Friday — late Friday. OK, we have an abundance of color and a really stupid image. On the other hand, the submitter found what s/he was looking for — and found it quickly. Which is more important? I’m not sure if the site qualifies as a Daily Sucker, so I’ll leave it up to my readers to decide. There’s a poll after the link.
Worst Web Sites of 2008
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