Worst Websites
The Daily Sucker #2 For 9-9-9
September 9th, 2009 2:02 am by Vincent Flanders
Submitter’s comments: I once again come to you with a nightmare of a Web site. Thanks to my raising carnivorous plants, I see a lot of really good and really bad Web sites related to horticulture, but I had no idea of what to expect when I came across this site.
It’s bad enough that it looks like 1997 all over again with the painful colors. Just wait for about thirty seconds, though, for the cute rep to appear on video and tell you why mimosa seedlings are so important. This isn’t just a case where your man from Mars couldn’t figure out this site. This one would cause Daleks and Vorlons to shake their heads in horror and in shame. In fact, I think I can hear the plants in question trying to inchworm their way away from anyone involved with okaying this Web site.
Vincent Flanders’ comments: I just haven’t kept my knowledge of extraterrestrial life forms up to date. I don’t doubt they would shake their heads in horror because they’re smarter than we are. On the plus side, they’ve set up the home page using cookies so that the woman only talks to you once. I tried to do the same thing with my home page so the purposely annoying drop-down banner only shows once, but I’m not a programmer. If anybody has fully working code so that the drop-down ad only shows once, I’ll be eternally grateful (has to be Javascript and not PHP). I’ve searched all over the web and I’ve spent hours trying to kludge something together. This is the page and here’s the relevant code:
<script type=’text/javascript’ src=’http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/prototype/1.6.0.3/prototype.js’></script>
<script type=’text/javascript’ src=’http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/scriptaculous/1.8.1/scriptaculous.js’></script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
function showSlide() {
var t=setTimeout(“Effect.BlindDown(‘slideBanner’)”,5000);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id=”wrap”>
<div id=”slideBanner” style=”width:100%; display:none; color:#666; text-align:center;margin:0;padding:0;”>
<div id=”cb-container” style=”height:300px; width:100%;text-align:center;background:#fff;margin:auto” onclick=”javascript:Effect.BlindUp(‘slideBanner’); return true;”>
<div style=”margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px”>
<img src=”http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/images/drop-down-ad-version2.jpg” width=”1000″ height=”300″ style=”border: 0px; vertical-align: middle” alt=”Click Here To Close!” />
<!– </a> –>
</div> </div></div>
<script type=”text/javascript”>showSlide();</script>
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