Submitter's comments: It is amazing how people don't think of how their web site's name can be taken the wrong way. Despite of what the URL sounds like, it's a car dealership.

Vincent's comments: If your web site is called MENLOVE.com, I don't think you want a tag line of "the last of the little guys." I could be wrong about that, but I doubt it.

Menlove.com

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The Worst Web Sites of 2007 #21-30 (Part 3)

I've assembled the third group of contenders for Worst Web Sites of 2007. These sites were selected from Daily Suckers during July through September.

The Worst Web Sites of 2007 #21-30 (Part 3)

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Daily Sucker #3 for Thursday, November 15, 2007

Submitter's comments: Vincent: As an escape from the impending final exams at my law school, much of the student body has become obsessed with reading these hilarious theories of reptilians that secretly rule the earth.

None of us take it seriously, but we're all intrigued with the complexities of this particular brand of wacko. These theorists sit around and zoom in on videos and search for look for reptilian features in politicians' eyes as proof of their reptilian nature. They then post these videos on Youtube with creepy and/or annoying background music.

Also, none of these conspiracy theorists seems capable of crafting a good web site.

The similar structure of all the reptilian Illuminati theory pages follows:

An obviously unprofessional look/appearance/ambiance guaranteed to attract only persons with absolutely no skills in source validation.
Large blobs of text ordered non sequentially to run five miles down the page.
Links to additional, definite proof of the reptilian-alien conspiracy to rule humanity.
(Optional) Google Adsense ads placed at the bottom to ensure that they make no money while building crappy web sites.

P.S. If you're secretly a reptilian alien Illuminati, please don't come for me.

Vincent's comments: I'm not a reptilian alien Illuminati. My wife believes any reptile would be two steps up from what she thinks I am (which I can't repeat).

KidsToday™ have it soooooo easy. For the first three years of my college career, the Internet didn't exist. We had to make do with loud music and soft drugs. Or was it soft music and loud drugs?

For those of you who want a "non-partisan" site for background on the reptilian conspiracy, try this Wikipedia page.

http://www.thewatcherfiles.com/exposing_reptilians.htm
http://www.greatdreams.com/reptlan/reps.htm
http://www.crystalinks.com/reptilians.html

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Daily Sucker #2 for Thursday, November 15, 2007

Submitter's comments: It's pretty horrible.

Vincent's comments: In keeping with our accidental theme of "college pages that suck," here's a site about a utensil used by many college students — except these items are collectible.

I don't think I've ever seen such horrid navigation that was labeled so clearly.

1001 Pens

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Daily Sucker #1 for Thursday, November 15, 2007

Submitter's comments: There's another pretty bad set of web pages from our old friends at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (the people that brought you that visual whatever Flash-based site). This one is supposed to publicly display the results of student evaluations of their instructors, but whomever set up the web pages did a poor job.

Even some of the students have recently expressed disdain over the poor quality of the web site in an article entitled, Clean up on aisle common sense, saying that the web site hasn't been updated "since spring 2006." Well, they did update it, but it's no better than the previous one. In fact, it looks like it hasn't been updated since 1996.

Here's the original site. The link to the "new" site is at the top and takes you to the New Course Evaluation Homepage.

Problems with this site include, but not limited to:

Drop-right menus.
Black background.
Table rows that change to a black background with dark red lettering when you hover your mouse over one.
Overly ambiguous table headers, such as "stimulating," "organized,"
"Overall S.D.," etc.
With how they constructed the frames, depending on your screen size and resolution, (I use 1280 x 1024.) you have to scroll to the BOTTOM of the page, scroll the table to the right, then go back up if you are looking at something close to the top.
Oh, and if you think those table headers are hyperlinks when you hover your mouse over them, (I thought they were.) wrong! They just simply order the table alphabetically or numerically, depending on the header.

I don't know what else to say. They could have used SSI or ever basic JavaScript, but instead ... it just blows my mind. I figured I should bring this to your attention.

Vincent's comments: I'd just like to add that the menu items are centered.

Course Evaluations - ASM — Old site
ASM Course Evaluations — New Site

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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.

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