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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.

Symantec – Bad Web Design Example for August 8, 2011

August 8th, 2011 1:01 am by Vincent Flanders

Submitter’s comments: Select “Small Business” on the main navigation. What you get is the Small Business page (which is correct), but you get the Enterprise menu.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Since this type of mistake is easily fixed, I’ve provided a video and a screenshot.

First, the video. I’m hoping stupid WordPress shows the video in the iframe below. Make sure you click the bottom right to get the full screen.

NOTE: Looks like stupid WordPress is being stupid and not showing the iframe. If the YouTube video doesn’t show up in the iframe because WordPress is stupid, here’s a link to the video on YouTube.

If you don’t want to see the video, here’s a screen capture showing the problem.

Symantec

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Global Economics in Perspective – Bad Web Design Example #4 for the week of August 1-5, 2011

August 4th, 2011 3:03 am by Vincent Flanders

Vincent Flanders’ comments: It’s a classic example of an Over-the-top Website. Commenting further would be a waste of my and your time. The site can only be saved by nuking it.

Global Economics in Perspective

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Reperkusiones – Bad Web Design Example #3 for the week of August 1-5, 2011

August 4th, 2011 3:03 am by Vincent Flanders

Submitter’s comments: I found this site today and it took me five minutes to realize that to get a menu you have to… (deleted by Vincent Flanders).The designer left the “Untitled Page” default title.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I deleted the explanation of how to find the menu because I want you to enjoy the process of finding it. What’s the process? Luck—or, perhaps, agony.

This site proves my theory that there’s a finite amount of good web design and an infinite amount of bad web design. This site is a definite contender for Worst Web Site of 2011.

Reperkusiones

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Low Price Skates – Bad Web Design Example #2 for for the week of August 1-5, 2011

August 4th, 2011 3:03 am by Vincent Flanders

Low Price Skates – Bad Web Design Example #2 for for the week of August 1-5, 2011

Submitter’s comments: Here’s an ugly website.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Wow! Not so much for the site, but for distant memories. Once upon a time, I was a 6-foot tall 140-lb teenager. I went roller skating every Friday night from 7:00 p.m. to midnight; every Saturday from 1:00 p.m. to midnight; and every Sunday from 1-6 p.m. That’s probably why I weighed 140 lbs.

It was very strange to see they still make the same style of boots that I wore back in 19XX.

Speaking of strange, I know the site sucks but I’m amazed at its consistency (yes, it consistently sucks). The navigation seems to be logical and consistent and, unlike 95% of the sites that animated GIFs, their use makes sense.

It’s quite “colorful,” but you can actually read the text. Hmm.

Low Price Skates

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The Dee Buchanan Studio of Dance – Bad Web Design Example #1 for the week of August 1-5, 2011

August 4th, 2011 3:03 am by Vincent Flanders

Submitter’s comments: I was looking at some local businesses sites earlier, and this one made me boggle.

It’s like they went, “Oh, that top line of photos look great!” and just started throwing them around everywhere on top of each other like a vomit of dance photos and photos of low-contrast text. And then I checked the source code, and boggled more.

I know it’s just a small-town dance school, but damn, even the town corn maze has a better page than that.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: There are a lot of interesting problems.

  1. The home page TITLE tag is “Home.”
  2. My monitor is 1200 pixels wide and you have to horizontally scroll to see everything because the page is cut off.
  3. The logo might be professionally made, but it’s white. I can’t really see it that well.
  4. They’re not a non-profit so they shouldn’t have a mission statement on the home page. The good news is the mission statement is at the bottom and it’s hard to read because the text is white.
  5. They didn’t look to see what the home page looks like in the Chrome browser. The page is broken, with some sections overlapping others. It’s also broken in Firefox 5.
  6. Images have non-SEO-friendly names like image3461.jpg.
  7. They used some Microsoft Office program to generate the HTML.

The Dee Buchanan Studio of Dance

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