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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.

TechCrunch Disrupt – Example #2 of Bad Web Design for November 2, 2011

November 2nd, 2011 5:05 am by Vincent Flanders

this site is badly designed

Submitter’s comments: Uh…what gives with the light text?

Vincent Flanders’ comments: If #666 is Satan’s CSS and violates the W3C’s guidelines on contrast, then TechChrunch Disrupt’s destroys it with text that is #888–33% more Satanic. The regular TechCrunch site uses #000, your standard black text. I read TechCrunch at least 3 times a day. I won’t be reading future Disrupts’

TechCrunch Disrupt

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FedEx – Example #1 of Bad Web Design for November 2, 2011

November 2nd, 2011 5:05 am by Vincent Flanders

this site is badly designed

Submitter’s comments: I can’t read it very well.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: For those of you who don’t understand the concept of contrast, my Daily Sucker from 9-9-9 explains it quite well.

Even though the line height on FedEx’s home page keeps the text separated, it requires effort to read the page. Visitors shouldn’t have to strain to read your text. FedEx uses #666– Satan’s CSS — throughout their site. I’ve met a few of their web employees and they’re too smart for this.

EedEx

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Don Norman is right. Of course he is.

October 31st, 2011 6:06 am by Vincent Flanders

http://design.ucdavis.edu/ – Sucks. Sucks. Sucks. Then to suck it up further, it’s Flash.

Original article. Oh. This reading list sucks in Chrome. You want to talk about tiny, tiny type…

Catch UC Davis’ flying birds. Yes, they may be the best flying birds on the web, but it’s still the best of a bad technique you should never, ever use on your site.

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Reticencias – An Example of Bad Web Design for October 31, 2011

October 30th, 2011 8:08 pm by Vincent Flanders

this site is badly designed

Submitter’s comments: Well it seems that some art critics do not apply their talent and knowledge to their own websites. This one is a classic Mystery Meat Navigation case associated with multiple scrollbars and stuff. Oh my!

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I agree. Why not just set it up with four columns? The other thing that’s amusing is that when I told Google to translate the page, it said it did. No, it didn’t. There’s a function on the options drop-down where you can tell Google there’s a problem. That brings up a new problem. You can only tell Google they have the wrong language. You can’t tell them they didn’t translate the page.

Reticencias

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Miami Xtreme Youth Football – Bad Web Design Example for October 27, 2011

October 26th, 2011 11:11 pm by Vincent Flanders

this site is badly designed

Submitter’s comments: Ouch. This site breaks all the rules. I don’t even know where to begin.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Wow! The animated GIF for Breast Cancer Awareness is so horrible it almost makes me want to root for the #2 cancer killer of women. (Lighten up. It’s a joke. On the other hand, it could also be viewed as my commentary on priorities.) I don’t even want to know what extreme football means. These are kids, for heaven’s sake.

The site, while colorful, sucks. Speaking of things that suck, those two malcontents who brought the word “suck” into the mainstream—Beavis and Butthead—are coming back to TV tonight after a 14-year absence. (This is so totally NSFW that it gives me a brain freeze.) Without the Three B’s—Beavis, Butt-Head and Bill Clinton—the word “suck” would still be edgy and I’d still be getting email about how horrible I am for choosing this domain name.

Speaking of horrible, let’s hear it for Xtreme Youth Football Cheerleading.

Miami Xtreme Youth Football

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