Submitter’s comments: Oh dear. What were they thinking?All points fail (APF?)

Vincent Flanders’ comments: The message on the home page “the flash player is required for viewing this site.  download flash” initially convinced me I couldn’t view the site. Then I realized, “Hey, I’ve got Flash installed.” I clicked on “enter” and was taken to the Flash-based home page.

Ironically, the company specializes in failure analysis. OK. Here’s my analysis. If English isn’t your first language, don’t use Flash. It’s too hard to correct grammatical errors (…witness for insurance industry) and strange word arrangements (…provide clients…forensic services in timely manner and cost effective).

There isn’t anything Flash is providing that couldn’t be done in HTML.

Sidhi Consultants

Submitter’s comments: Comic Sans caught in the wild.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Ah…Comic Sans. The font we love to hate. If you doubt me, check out Google. The majority owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers  wrote an open letter to the city of Cleveland after professional basketball player Lebron James bailed for more money or whatever it was he was after.

It’s hard to take majority owner Dan Gilbert seriously when he’s using Comic Sans. I don’t follow sports, but even I know this whole affair looks too much like professional wrestling.

Open Letter to Cleveland Cavalier Fans

Submitter’s comments: Vincent, are you aware of this site?

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I am now and all I’ve got to say is WTF? Don’t these guys get it?

This is a website that discusses children’s reading difficulties AND IT’S TOO FREAKING HARD TO READ WHAT THEY’VE WRITTEN!!!!!!!

Children of the Code

Submitter’s comments: Please don’t ask how I find these rabbit warren web sites.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I won’t ask, so please don’t tell.

If you have to explain a joke, the joke sucks. If you have to explain your navigation, your navigation sucks. This site’s navigation is a joke. On some of the subpages, it’s difficult to read the text even after you zoom in.

Olmsted Falls

Submitter’s comments: Check out this sucky site!

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Definitely a contender for worst web site of 2010. My first reaction was “Where’s the white space?”

Shop in Paradise

Submitter’s comments: It’s been a while since I’ve seen Mystery Meat Navigation used on a website, so I thought I’d send you this site. Honestly, I don’t see this much any more — see if you can find the navigation on this page (hint: it is next to the little graphic that says “Navigate” and has an arrow pointing to it. Even then, it takes a moment to realize what the heck is going on).

I was floored that I couldn’t just click what appeared to be the “Lunch” or “Dinner” graphics at the top. The music which plays when the page loads is also one of my biggest pet peeves.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Whenever someone says to you,”There’s nothing wrong with using Mystery Meat Navigation,” send them to this site. I hereby revoke my Mystery Meat exemption to band, art, personal, music, et al. sites until such a time as site owners and designers become responsible citizens. If people see something stupid, they want it. This has got to stop.

Zinc Bistro

Submitter’s comments: I have found a pretty sucky site you might be interested in. Champ’s Rollerdrome is a local skate rink. To start with, their header graphic is overly large, obnoxiously frenetic, unnecessarily Flash and on every page! There’s also plenty of poor contrast text and jumpy link buttons. And check out their birthday page (if you can find it) to see how many trademarked logos they’re using.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: The page might cause seizures, so beware. I was expecting a low-end type of site, but this is a mid-level ugly Flash site.

Champs Entertainment Complex

Submitter’s comments: I really, really wanted this website to have some sort of meaning other than slowing down my computer. But it just didn’t deliver…

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Looking for meaning from a website is like looking for true love in a bar. This site may be NSFW — but mostly for the background music and cheesy animations. My only hope is this site is where cheesy animations go to die.

Disco of the Night

Submitter’s comments: On a guitar newsgroup the topic of worst websites came up. Most of the examples were sites you’ve featured years ago (Yvette’s, Forever Forgiven, etc.) that people think “they’ve discovered.” One site that was new to me — and shouldn’t have been — is Ed Roman Guitars. It’s definitely Web Pages That Suck material.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: There’s nothing like a Las Vegas-style website belonging to a Las Vegas-based company. It certainly qualifies for my list of Over-The-Top Web Sites except this site isn’t about “philosophy, religion, politics, end times, etc.”

Yes, it’s a music site (which are normally exempt), but it’s a store that sells products. This site is a classic example of Mistake #6 from Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015 — “Have you ever seen another web site? Really? Doesn’t look like it.“ I call this type of design the “I haven’t taken my antipsychotics in a while school of web design.”

Seriously, have the people at this company surfed the web?

Ed Roman Guitar