Web Pages That Suck - learn good web design by looking at bad web design

Submitter’s comments: So, my mother happens to be a slightly successful poet and was looking for a magazine to submit a few poems to. She found this site on a list of them and it sounded interesting. Then, she looked at the web site, and decided not to submit anything. I can see why. Font choice is hard on the eyes, navigation is hidden at the bottom, and the site…well…why is that image even there? Oh, and that’s just the home page. It just keeps on getting worse. Pay attention to the navigation.

My favorite page is definitely submissions.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: The problem with white text on a black background is obvious — what color do you make links and visited links so that people can see them? This site fails because it chose default blue for links and purple for visited links, which are impossible to read. The Submissions page is, for some reason, needlessly centered.

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