Worst Websites of the Year: 2012-2005
Current Examples of Bad Web Design Presented Daily (direct link)
Overview (direct link)
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.
November 21st, 2008 12:12 pm by V. Flanders
I’m trying to see what it takes to get this blankety-blank plug-in to work. Please drive through.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj6x9vwi23o
Posted in Daily Sucker, Web Design, Worst Web Sites |
September 17th, 2008 10:10 pm by Vincent Flanders
Submitter comments: After seeing this site, my engagement is off! I now totally, absolutely, 100% vow a life of celibacy.
Vincent Flanders’ comments: I remember the priests and nuns at my Catholic grade school telling us that if we thought we were facing immanent death, we should say an Act of Contrition and our sins would be forgiven — or something like that. After viewing this site the only thing that’s keeping me alive is the thought of death.
You have to love the keyword stuffing that’s going on. Most people try to hide the fact. Because of all the color combinations on the page, they just put the keywords at the bottom.
You must click the ENTER YVETTE’S link and see the home page. OMG. This site is a shoo-in for inclusion Worst Web Sites of 2008.
Posted in Daily Sucker, Usability, Web Design |
August 4th, 2008 12:12 am by Vincent Flanders
To celebrate the beginning of WebPagesThatSuck’s 13th year I thought I’d go through my vault of bad web design and show you some of the classics.
Sadly, a lot of the mistakes you’ll see are still being made 13 years later. Fortunately, most of the companies I’ll feature learned the errors of their way and fixed their sites. They’re hoping and praying that these mistakes will remain buried because they don’t show up in Archive.org.
My first example is from 1998 and the company in question is Janus — “a global investment manager offering institutional and intermediary clients and individual investors complementary asset management disciplines including growth and risk-managed strategies.” Really? You’d never know it by looking at their site.
Here’s the YouTube video (and here are more of my videos at YouTube)
A nicer and higher resolution version at WebPagesThatSuck.TV
Posted in Daily Sucker, Usability, Web Design |
July 25th, 2008 5:05 pm by Vincent Flanders
I’m not the only person who recognizes that architects have problems with their web sites. treehugger takes architects to task over their web sites. I’m going to add these suckers to my Bad Architects Sites.
Here are some more articles about bad architectural web sites: bd and the Guardian.
Posted in Daily Sucker, Usability, Web Design |
July 6th, 2008 8:08 pm by Vincent Flanders
I entered the following into Amazon’s search box: How Can I Talk If My Lips Won’t Move. Amazon said:
Your search “How Can I Talk If My Lips Won’t Move: ” did not match any products.
The only mistake I made consisted of one letter — Don’t instead of Won’t. I’m sorry, but that’s just unacceptable. I tried the same search at Barnes & Noble and Powell’s, but they couldn’t find the book. Oh, Borders gets it right. Why did I search for the title? I couldn’t remember the author’s name: Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay.
BTW, it’s a great book about what it’s like to be autistic.
Posted in Bad Business Practices, Daily Sucker, Usability |
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