Submitter’s comments: I just discovered this marvelous example of browser bossiness on totaljobs.com.

Totaljobs.com endeavours to support as many users as possible, but it has become necessary to cease supporting some browser versions. If your browser is not supported, you may still be able to access our site, but you may encounter some display problems.

They don’t support Mozilla, Opera, or Safari browsers and they don’t support Macintosh, Unix, or Linux operating systems.

They advertise UNIX jobs and Mac jobs! Are they expecting UNIX admins and Mac developers to carry around a windows laptop (only 32bit Windows is supported, mind) in order to access their site?

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Obviously, these folks are unclear on the concept. I believe the Brits (BTW what do you liked to be called?) have a marvelous word to describe the people who wrote the browser disclaimer — Wankers.

TotalJobs’ Browser Policy

Submitter’s comments: I was just looking for stuff to entertain my kids and I ran across this site before 8am today, What a way to start the day!

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I think it’s really cool that you’re willing to help your kids find sites worth visiting. The site you found is poorly designed. The main navigation is too far down the page (and it links to sections down the page), there is no navigation other than the back button, the page is way too long, some text is centered and other text is flush left, some text is red and some is black and some is blue, there’s a poor use of white space,

Quaint Corner Children’s Museum

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Jakob Nielsen’s Donation Usability: Increasing Online Giving to Non-Profits and Charities is required reading for any nonprofit organization. His two big points (Mission Statements and accountability) ring true. As I’ve said a hundred times, no web site should have a mission statement — unless you’re a nonprofit and then you need to have the best mission statement possible. As I said in Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015 organization names, mission statements, and tag lines shouldn’t say:

Big Hands of Hope

 – It’s all about compassion

They should say something like

Save the African Children

 – We keep them from dying a horrible death

Your mission statement, tagline, and organization name should tell me what you’re going to do.

Anyway, Jakob’s article is brilliant, etc. , except for one little detail. The math is wrong — or something is wrong as the illustration below demonstrates:

(If the above image is too hard to read, you can click the link below and scroll down toward the bottom.)

If you have a $10M budget and it increases 10%, that should be $1M not $100K. I think. I’m not great at math either.

Jakob’s about as good as math as I am, but he’s much cooler

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I was ADDS (Attention Deficit Disorder Surfing) and I ended up at this site. I ran it through AccessColor and they said:

Both color difference and color brightness do not meet the recommended standard for 25.18% of the total text.

Either color difference or color brightness does not meet the recommended standard for 59.12% of the total the text.

Text on background with images is for 2.92% of the total text.

Click on the picture for a bigger image, or see the whole report in all its glory.

Considering what these people do…OOPS!

Keynote Systems

Submitter’s comments: Saginaw Township Community Schools – one of the more respected districts in the area – and look at their site. I’m not a web designer by trade, but I’ve actually seen a web site before.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Where’s the focus? Why does the text have so many different colors? Why is their mission statement on the front page? Why aren’t the links underlined? Why is it so hard to find the links? (Under the green-colored Miscellaneous Links, we have the phrase “Where to go with Questions or Concerns” but only the words “Question or Concerns” are links. If you move your mouse to the beginning of the line — which is normal — it looks like there’s no link.

Saginaw Townships Community Schools

Submitter’s comments: I get so lost trying to find the damn specs for the laptop they’re selling.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I get so pissed looking at those snotty, bitchy models. The guy is the worst. It will be a very cold day before I buy another Dell laptop.

Dell Adamo Laptop

Submitter’s comments: The links move around onscreen. If you roll over a link, it blanks out all the other links. Quite unworkable.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Really, really stupid navigation. But, hey? why else would it be The Daily Sucker?

d/Lux/MediaArts

Submitter’s comments: I have only been here a couple of times, but this has to be one of the worst ever. Enjoy.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I think we have the winner for the Worst Web Site of 2009. Heck. I think I’ve found the worst web site of all time. Congratulations to the submitter of this site. You’ve just found the bottom of web design.

Bad web design is like pornography — just when you think you’ve seen it all and you think nothing could disgust you, along comes something worse. Today’s Daily Sucker is the 2 Girls 1 Cup of bad web design. No, as far as I can tell there’s no pornography, just a web site that makes the 2008 Worst Web Site — Havenworks — look like CSS Zen Garden.

The home page is HUGE. In fact, I don’t know how large it is because it’s still downloading and it’s 2:00 a.m., and I’d like to go to bed. I’m guesstimating it’s around 503MB. That’s MB as in Megabytes. It’s so big I can’t get the great screen capture program, SnagIt, to capture a complete screen shot.

The page scrolls HORIZONTALLY and VERTICALLY. Holy, mother of God. This is a nightmare.

Because the home page is so huge, I’m not going to provide a direct link. You’ll just have to copy and paste the URL. I wish I drank, because I need a drink after looking at this site. Hell, I think it’s time to start. I’ve got orange juice and I think there’s some old vodka somewhere in the kitchen.

Just in case their system crashes from bandwidth overload, SnagIt was able to give me a partial screen capture — 6000 x 7000 pixels.

Here’s the site: http://www.belladesoto.us/

Here’s a partial screen capture

Here’s a partial screen capture at a larger size

Below is a really reduced screen shot:

Submitter’s comments: I would like to nominate genicap.com. This company is supposed to offer a pretty nice plugin for Adobe Illustrator; however, I have searched their site for 30 minutes and cannot find out how I can buy a copy. There is no search feature. The navigation SUCKS. It is chock full of technobabble. All in all one of the worse sites I have seen for a big company.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: My picture on the left sums up my feelings about the Genicap web site. If you’re not familiar with Gary’s “issues,” check out his appearance on Comedy Central’s Roast of Larry the Cable Guy where he roasts himself (this is so NSFW).

We have a Splash page with Mystery Meat Navigation, which is a bad way to start off your site. The subnavigation at the top is hard to read because the text is small and the contrast isn’t sufficient. The regular text is small and hard to read on a high-resolution monitor. There are also Javascript errors on certain subpages.

The rest of the site doesn’t make sense. Where is the damn plugin? If it’s on another site, where is the friggin link on this site? I thought this site might be an attempt to suck up to investors, but I can’t even be sure of that.

This site commits at least NINE of the Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015:

When Gary Busey makes more sense than your web site, we have a contender for the Worst Web Site of 2009.

Genicap