Worst Websites
Daily Sucker for Thursday, October 1, 2009
October 1st, 2009 2:02 am by Vincent Flanders
Submitter’s comments: I was looking for a postal scale the other day when I ran into this site.
The front page has dark gray letters on a light gray background. Sure most of the text is to small to be readable. But what really sets this page apart from most crappy pages of this nature is on top of the Flash — the totally inexplicable “Welcome to http://www.WeighMax.com” in that neat “In the future, letters will not be human readable” font.
Click on the Mailing postal scale link. Yep, there is not a better way to showcase your products than to take a large picture and use HTML to make it into a thumbnail. I also doubt if anyone would comment if the large bit of moving orange wasn’t there at the top.
Vincent Flanders’ comments: Does anybody ever look at their web site? Here’s a screenshot. Scroll down and ask yourself, “Can anyone except a fighter pilot or professional athlete read the text?” There’s not enough contrast. The background color is #E9E9E9, while the text color is #777777. This would work only if the text were large and we know it’s too small. There’s a special spot in web design hell reserved for whoever’s signed off on this.
The “Mailing postal scale” page doesn’t work in Firefox. Somebody didn’t use BrowserCam to check out their site in different browsers. This is an amateur’s mistake. Oh, the HTML as thumbnail concept shows you’re not even an amateur. Here’s what one of the 220Kb scale images really looks like.
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