The Daily Sucker

Submitter’s comments: Vincent: I thought you’d love this one — the home page is one single image with no real text and an image map for navigation.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Looks like somebody had a brochure lying around. C’mon. This is soooo 1997. On the other hand, it’s PageRank is 2, with is double what Heritage Development achieved with their much fancier site. They use image maps throughout the site. Surprisingly, the code-to text ratio on this site is 10.02%.

Holthaus Signs

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: This thing is horrible — and they PAID for it!!!

Vincent Flanders’ comments: You have to love the way text is arranged on the Office Hours page and the fact there’s no link to the home page. Yes, it’s “under construction,” but still. The image of the spinal cord on the left freaks me out because it looks like a poisonous snake is going up and down the spine. There’s no reason for the animated spine on the right side and I don’t have to tell you (but I have to tell them) that cube in the middle sucks worse than a $20 vacuum cleaner.

Frames suck, but they suck even more when the links open in a new window (the few I tried). If you’re going to open new windows, you don’t need frames. The background in the left frame is ugly as are the buttons. There’s a delicious irony that the h2h page — yes, that’s the “helpful” title — has a GooglePageRank of 3, but the Home Page has a page rank of 0.

The list of mistakes goes on and on. Nuke it and start over.

Carnation Chiropractic