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Sites featured in articles like Worst Websites of 2010 often are redesigned, which explains why some sites mentioned in my articles don't match their current look. The Daily Sucker features current examples of bad web design which haven't been fixed (yet).

If you see a site that you think sucks, email the URL to me. No personal pages (personal pages are supposed to reflect the individual's personality and artistic freedom) or web site designers (it would look like a conflict of interest), or others of their ilk.

If I think there's some merit to your selection, I may post it along with some commentary. If you know of a site that qualifies, let me know.

Daily Sucker for Tuesday, November 24, 2009

November 24th, 2009 6:06 am by Vincent Flanders

The Holiday Light Store

Submitter’s comments: This is Google’s top result for the words "Christmas light store" and I can’t even get the store page to load. It’s the sort of site I can understand being a *little* tacky, and yet I still think it goes overboard.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Electricity just got back on after two days of going without. Oh, the joys of living in paradise.

Overboard? No, today’s Sucker goes overboard and sinks rapidly to the bottom of the ocean. My biggest gripe? There’s a whole section of text you can’t read because there’s no contrast. My second biggest gripe? Everything else.

There really isn’t any navigation as navigation is defined. It took a while to find the store link, which goes to a page that eats up 1.3Mb of bandwidth.

On the other hand, the animated GIFs are perfectly acceptable because they demonstrate the different products.

The Holiday Light Store

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