The Daily Sucker

Submitter’s comments: It’s a simple sucker. A general lack of focus on this web page is not a crime, so I ended up just staring at the news scroll … of real headlines, not company news. The last thing a developer’s website should be doing is reminding people how bad the economy is.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: It is interesting how your eye is drawn toward the scrolling news. When I first looked at the site, the news was financial — now it’s general, with one of the headlines talking about Brad Pitt and another about O. J. Simpson.

There’s only 422 bytes of actual content on this site (3.04%). No wonder it only has a PageRank of 1. I also don’t understand why the home page can also be accessed with https.

Heritage Development or the “secure” version.

Submitter’s comments: Here is an example why academics should not be allowed to build Web sites unsupervised.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I agree. There’s some weird floating box that talks about 1,3-diradicals. Why is this here? Why do we have a page that’s 853Kb? The “Open Window” button doesn’t perform as you’d expect. It’s very strange. The message “This is your first visit” should be changed to “This is your last visit, isn’t it?”

Guy Bertrand Research Group

Submitter’s comments: Enjoy.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: There’s not much to enjoy. It’s a waste of a good URL — dear.com.

Dear Laserworks

Submitter’s comments: Don’t know whether or not this site has been covered but I was searching through google, don’t ask me what, and I stumbled upon this site and my eyes bled. Submitted for your approval: Cow Dance Wear

Vincent Flanders’ comments: It’s Thanksgiving here in the United States, which means we eat turkey. Speaking of turkeys, today’s site is certainly a turkey. Hopefully, you won’t get ill.

I’m willing to bet that everyone but the designer can see all the mistakes.

The Cow Dance

Submitter’s comments: I think that chiropractic websites must attract horrible design:

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I think you’re right. Obviously, this site was designed on a 640×480 monitor. If you look at it on anything larger, the content runs over the border as illustrated by these BrowserCam screen captures. There are four screen captures of the first screen at different resolutions and four captures after the PAGE DOWN key was hit. See for yourself.

Proactive Chiropractic

Submitter’s comments: None.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Here’s an article about an incredibly sucky site from a major company. I think we’ve got another contender for Worst of 2008. The site is called BEA — The Beginning of Business. I think it should be called BEA — The Beginning of Bad Web Design.

Note to the author of the article: Nobody’s more surprised than I am that the site is still here. I didn’t think it would last thirteen weeks — much less thirteen years. On the other hand, I should have known because there’s a limited amount of good web design and an infinite amount of bad web design on the web.

The article

BEA — The Beginning of Business

Submitter’s comments: None.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Here’s an article about Barclays Skills Training that sounds like something I’d write.

The article

Barclays Skills Training — Still doesn’t work in Firefox (and it’s been 10 months)