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Current Examples of Bad Web Design Presented Daily (direct link)
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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.
December 16th, 2010 2:02 am by Vincent Flanders
The article How Fast is Fast Enough to Keep Customers’ Attention Online? says pages should load in 2 seconds. I agree wholeheartedly. The problem is the article takes 7.58 seconds to load. Unclear on the concept.
Most of the bloat is caused by web widgets. When it comes to web page speed, widgets are the black hole of f**king death. Especially comment systems.
Posted in Daily Sucker, Twitter, Usability, Web Design |
December 3rd, 2010 7:07 am by Vincent Flanders
Vincent Flanders’ comments: I click on this Twitter link that sounds interesting. It’s about protecting your iPhone’s information and since I’m thinking of getting one, I go to the site. The site’s well done and it doesn’t bother me that I have to scroll down the page for what seems like forever because it’s telling a clever story.
The problem is quite simple. THE FREAKING PRODUCT ISN’T OUT YET!!! YOU’RE WASTING MY TIME!
This isn’t high school. Don’t product-tease me. I really don’t like it. I’m willing to bet that this site gets a lot of positive press because of its cleverness. I love clever—but only when there’s a punch line. There’s no reward here.
Added this before posting: There’s a button on the site that says it’s been “Liked” 6K times and bit.ly says it’s shortened the URL 22,538 times. Well, we know there are at least 6,000 usability idiots out there.
Posted in Bad Business Practices, Daily Sucker, Twitter, Usability, Web Design, Worst Web Sites |
November 23rd, 2010 1:01 am by Vincent Flanders
Posted in Not a Daily Sucker, Twitter, Web Design, You Should Read |
November 22nd, 2010 11:11 pm by Vincent Flanders
Posted in Bad Business Practices, Daily Sucker, Twitter, Web Design, Worst Web Sites, You Should Read |
November 22nd, 2010 11:11 pm by Vincent Flanders
Posted in Not a Daily Sucker, Twitter, Usability, Web Design |
November 16th, 2010 5:05 pm by Vincent Flanders
Posted in Twitter, You Should Read |
November 14th, 2010 2:02 pm by Vincent Flanders
Posted in Twitter |
November 6th, 2010 3:03 am by Vincent Flanders
Posted in Not a Daily Sucker, Twitter, You Should Read |
April 27th, 2010 5:05 am by Vincent Flanders
I hate forms. In fact, if I’m not mistaken, WPTS is a form-free zone. However, they’re insanely important for most sites and here’s “Best Practices in Form Design,” a free, downloadable, 133-page PDF (4.37Mb) from the guy who wrote the book on forms.
Posted in Not a Daily Sucker, Twitter, Usability, Web Design, You Should Read |
April 16th, 2010 1:01 pm by Vincent Flanders
An old high school buddy, Terry Schill, came up with a brilliant take about recent Twitter events: “Not bragging, but all of my Tweets are going into the Library of Congress….who would have known?”
Definitely NOT The Daily Sucker.
The best part of the Twitter deal is that everyone can now legitimately tell people, “I’m an author. My works are in the Library of Congress.”
Posted in Not a Daily Sucker, Twitter |
April 8th, 2010 8:08 pm by Vincent Flanders
Since it’s my policy not to comment on web designers’ sites, I won’t comment on any of these 10 selections by iMediaConnecion. Let me just say “10 awesome agency websites” is their article title.
Posted in Twitter, Web Design, You Should Read |
March 25th, 2010 5:05 am by Vincent Flanders
I’m spending a lot of time working with web page speed. I discovered an interesting factoid: if you throw all your HTML, Javascript, CSS and graphic files in the same directory (and modify your files to account for this), your pages will load 20-30% faster. Of course, I wasn’t a math major.
| Nice, neat directory structure | Threw everything in one directory |
| 2517ms (empty cache) | 1864ms (empty cache) |
| 1949ms (primed cache) | 1372ms (primed cache) |
| I used Steve Souders Hammerhead for calculations. |
Posted in Not a Daily Sucker, Twitter, Usability |
September 10th, 2009 2:02 am by Vincent Flanders
Reading “Top 10 Apps for Scheduling a Meeting Online” http://bit.ly/2gEzFY I’ve used Doodle and like it.
Posted in Not a Daily Sucker, Ping.fm, Twitter, You Should Read |
August 25th, 2009 4:04 pm by Vincent Flanders
Free Photoshop SpeedUp (Windows) http://bit.ly/rugow – Scroll to bottom of the page. There’s also a free PDF SpeedUp.
Posted in Not a Daily Sucker, Ping.fm, Software, Twitter |
August 7th, 2009 5:05 pm by Vincent Flanders
Posted in Daily Sucker, Twitter |
