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Please read the FAQ -- especially the section, "Why does your site suck?"
Site: Warehouse Furniture
Submitter's comments: They've had their advertisements running on TV for some time now, and needless to say, there might be some similarity between the quality of their ads and the quality of their web page.
Right off the bat, you notice their wonderful red-to-yellow gradient background, with black surrounding it. Their layout is fixed, and they're letting you know it. There's useless Flash animations scattered throughout their site and take a look at the code that powers the web site. It's wretched. It seems to have been generated by something.
One more thing, they resize their images in the browser. Quite large images, I must add. The recliner images look like they've just been squashed by an anvil.
Vincent Flanders’ comments: It's been a long time since I've seen gradients like these. The site would be improved by 80% if the backgrounds disappeared. I got rid of the background and this screenshot shows I was wrong about the 80% improvement. It's more like 500%.
We certainly don't need a Flash logo or much of any of the Flash that's here. The reason the recliner images are squished is probably because they scanned in an ad and made it fit in a smaller space.
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Triad Forensics (for those who don’t like to read and just want the link)
Submitter's comments: As a designer, I am a huge fan of your site. I often reference your site to try to talk the clients I work for out of bad ideas — sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn't. Anyway, I came across this web site the other day. Just click around a little and you'll see why I suggested them.
Vincent Flanders’ comments: "Friends don't let friends design Web Pages That Suck" was a bumper sticker I came up with years ago. I'm glad designers and other concerned citizens are trying to make the web more beautiful. Well, less ugly. Here's a tip, when someone wants to make a bad design choice say, " That's fine, except there was this site featured on Web Pages That Suck that had that same feature. I don't think it was on the Worst Web Sites of 2008 list, but I remember seeing it somewhere."
Triad's home page background image is distracting, the logo is well-made but cheesy looking, we've got a link counter visible, and we also have a mission statement. Mission statements are only necessary on non-profit web sites. This site's Mission Statement is "to provide quality training and consulting services to our clients." Duh. Of course. It's like saying, "All babies must eat." It only states the obvious.
Speaking of the obvious, obviously Triad's method of returning to the home page from the Course Registration and Articles pages isn't helpful. Let me visually explain:
Since I violated one of my central tenants — Don't use graphics for text — let me translate from graphic to text:
The BACK button is NOT your web site navigation.
The Instructors page is sort of an homage to Marcel Proust. Instead of one long sentence, they believe in one long paragraph. Seriously, you need to break up a paragraph when there's more than one thought.
The biggest problem is that EVERY page (well, every page I looked at) has a completely different style and could easily be mistaken as belonging to another site. Some pages use a red, white, and blue motif. Even U. S. Government web sites don't use red, white, and blue. There's nothing patriotic about forensics. Oh, and "Page Title" is NOT a good TITLE tag.
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Daily Sucker for Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Conference(for those who don’t like to read and just want the link)
Submitter's comments: I heard about this great conference on environmental justice and found the web site so I could forward to others. But after seeing it, I don't think anyone would get too excited after looking at the site. I can't put my finger on exactly why it sucks. Just looks amateurish and plain.
Vincent Flanders’ comments: This is an important topic, so I've made a video about meeting your users' expectations..
Here's a link to the YouTube video
Here's a link to a high-def version
Environmental Justice in America Conference
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My Country Home Decor (Furniture page)
The second paragraph of the “People Practices” page
2008 Planning Institute of Australia National Congress
Alternative Transport Services
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The Worst Web Sites of 2007 Have Been Finalized and Posted
Web design in 2007 sucked worse than any other year since 1998.
The categories are :
The 10 Worst Web Sites of 2007 - The Final List
10 Worst Uses of Web Site Navigation for 2007 - The Final List
Worst Web Sites of 2007 #11-20 - The Final List
Worst Web Sites of 2007 #21-30 - The Final List
The 10 Worst Non-Profit Web Sites of 2007 - The Final List
The Worst Nonprofit Web Sites of 2007 - #11-20 will be posted when I edit it.
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The Daily Sucker Backgrounder
The Daily Sucker contains material that should be considered updates to the book, "Web Pages That Suck." and Son of Web Pages That Suck. I can't see the future -- if I could, I'd be picking lottery numbers and stocks. The Daily Sucker features new sucky design techniques not in existence when the book was written. Since Web designers are stubborn, I also include old sucky techniques featured in the book. Maybe if they see a bad technique featured enough they'll stop using it.
The suckers are based on user input. You see a site that you think sucks and then e-mail the URL to me. No personal pages (personal pages are supposed to reflect the individual's personality, artistic freedom, and lack of taste -- a commercial site is about making money) or Web site designers (it would look like a conflict of interest). If I think there's some merit to your selection, I post it along with some commentary -- and quality commentary helps determine whether I use the suggestion.
The sucky example will usually be available for only 24 hours (or thereabouts -- weekends and egregious examples are exceptions) -- never to be seen again. Well, probably. Somebody could always suggest them again -- and they do.