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.
Carpal Tunnel Surgery Sucks. I’ve been laid up with CT surgery this last week and I was suffering a lot of pain and numbness before the surgery. My typing skills right now are horrendous, so I’m going to limit my commentary. Limit it to zero. Just the submitter’s comments.
Daily Sucker #1: Gordon Wayne Watts Official Research Page
It’s a toned-down version of your Over-The-Top Websites. It lacks the gaudy colors and the violently moving animated GIFs that OTTWs have. Then there’s the stupid music. If the stories lined up, I wouldn’t bother suggesting it the Daily Sucker.
I came across this website after reading the reviews on Yelp. The reviews are mostly positive but the web page really sucks! The menu is a slideshow that rotates every 5 seconds. Why it rotates, I do not know and I can not read that fast. So they give you a way to stop the rotation by moving your mouse over the thumbnail. The only problem is after you stop the rotation you can only read the top half of the menu. If you move your mouse to scroll down it starts to rotate again and there isn’t a way to stop it from rotating on the bottom half of the page. Horrible design.
This company is been in business since the late 1970′s selling stoves and they do print advertising all the time with this website listed as the contact. You can’t read a lot of the links and that background graphic is from 1996.
Submitter’s comments: Thought this one would perhaps make honorable mention?
Vincent Flanders’ comments: It’s an honorable mention. Barely. It’s a toned-down version of an Over-The-Top Website. It lacks the gaudy colors and the violently moving animated GIFs that OTTWs have. If the stories lined up, I wouldn’t bother making it the Daily Sucker.
The home page scores well on Page Speed and Yslow. Most of the front-end problems are caused by all the ads. I’m actually impressed.
Submitter’s comments: Here’s a BAD website for ya!
Vincent Flanders’ comments: Actually, I don’t have a clue how s/he got to this page from the home page (it might be a landing page for an email). The worst problem—and there were many to choose from—is that when you mouse over to the Products menu, most of the items on the menu were hidden by the January Special Flash animation.
The home page is deliriously silly. Flash animations galore inside table cells that are outlines. I was so distracted by the animations, I forgot to try to figure out what the site was about.
Worse, “Have you ever seen a website from a competitor?” On a whim, I typed in rugdoctor.com and was taken to a website that’s infinitely better although it sucks a lot because of a lack of contrast. You look at the page and you know exactly what they’re selling.
Submitter’s comments: I thought you might like this site. It might be Latin or it’s just a template with lorem-ipsum generated text. I’m not sure, because the font is too small and I can’t read it. My personal favorite: the menu runs away when you try moving your mouse over it.
Vincent Flanders’ comments: WTF! This is Mystery Meat Navigation (MMN) at its worst. Well, it may not be the worst, because the worst is something I made up—Random Mystery Meat (see below)
Yes, I know there is regular text navigation at the bottom, but that doesn’t excuse the use of MMN.
This is so horrible, I’m putting it in at the “end” of 2010 and the beginning of 2011 so I can use it as an example of Worst Site of the Year.
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