Web Pages That Suck - learn good web design by looking at bad web design

Site: Spangles

Submitter’s comments: I was an avid submitter when you were on year one. It’s depressing that there is enough bad design still out there to keep you going a decade and a half later.

Here’s one to make your eyes and ears hurt.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: What’s more depressing is there will be enough bad design to keep me going another decade and a half.

I like this example because it’s not as obvious as the ones in this group, this group, this group, or this group. (Here’s a helpful tip: don’t use vague link titles like “this group.” It tells your visitor nothing.)

The main problem isn’t the Flash. The main problem is there’s nothing in the Flash that can’t be eliminated or done by HTML. We don’t need the stinking piano at the bottom. We don’t need the sound and we don’t need the spinning record that does nothing once you click it (it says “Click Me.”

Spangles