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Site: Clo

Submitter’s comments: I guess I just really don’t get the fact that to read anything on the page, the user has to horizontally scroll instead of down like a normal website…I’m sure there’s more about it that sucks pretty hard. For a bar that prides itself on being pretty edgy (it’s the only bar in the world with no bartenders, and a touch screen menu), their web site is pretty…blah looking.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Strange. I thought horizontal scrolling was a thing of the past. Obviously, it isn’t. Once again, we have contrast problems. The Halloween-themed black text on the orange background is difficult to read and lack of contrast is listed as the 3rd biggest mistake in my article Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015:

According to Wikipedia: “Contrast is the difference in visual properties that makes an object (or its representation in an image) distinguishable from other objects and the background.” According to Vincent Flanders: “Without proper contrast, visitors to your site can’t read the text and if they can’t read it, they will leave it.” Here’s a web site that gives a really great explanation of the need for contrast — and it’s visual.

C’mon.

Clo