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Dave’s Bargain.com

Submitter’s comments: This is yet another business that reared its head upside down in terms of their web site. There are a lots of (useless) links. Screen resolution is a issue so you have to do some horizontal scrolling. I wonder why it has a lot of external links to other sites if the owner is not directly selling their products to the consumer? Other than that, the web site. just looks plain ugly at the best, but I will let you be a judge of that.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: As someone who has struggled and continues to struggle with menus and navigation, I appreciate this site’s problems as does Dack Ragus whose brilliant mockup of Amazon.com going tab-happy is a classic example of menus gone crazy. This site has crammed itty-bitty text onto 51 hard-to-read buttons.

The clothing page shows a couple of problems mentioned by our submitter — external links with broken images. I’d like to mention we have links with two different colors (blue and red, both without underlines). One thing our submitter failed to grasp is that the links to other sites are basically associate links where the site gets money for referring customers. At least that’s what it looks like.

In fact, this site may be just one very big referral site. Does this site actually sell anything. I can’t tell and if I can’t tell, that’s not good.

Dave’s Bargain.com