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Submitter’s comments: The gracious host starts his high pressure sales talk as soon as you get to his site. He even wants to “point out a few valuable areas for you to take advantage of.” Given his first impression, I was too scared to look any further. I’ll leave that to the professionals. Does this qualify for a new category of what not to do?

Vincent Flanders’ comments: It’s a variation of those talking people you see on Mr. Bottles or Connecting Point (video).

I was afraid that this site was going to degenerate into Guns Guns Guns (video). Thankfully, it didn’t. What gives with the large, black space in the middle of the page. Allegedly, it’s something called “Hacker Safe.”

It would be nice if the site used cookies so that you’d only hear the message once — on each page. Visited links don’t change color (hard to do on this blood-red background) so you don’t know what you’ve already looked at.

I love the “2 Day Shotgun Skill Builder” page. First, as soon as you go to the page, a video starts. Wrong. You’re never supposed to do that. Let people click if they want to see the video. Trust me. I’ve gone through the site and the videos and sound files really get on your nerves — especially when you return to a page you’ve visited. Second, the video shows a guy shooting a handgun instead of a shotgun.

Like so many sites, there’s so much information that’s poorly categorized. Oh, there’s too much text that’s too little.

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