#1 Worst Web Site of 2007 — Ace of Cakes

Submitter's comments: I just visited aceofcakestv.com,  Duff’s web site from the tv show "Ace Of Cakes" on the Food Network.  WOW, what at great example of Mystery Meat Navigation — and abuse of Flash. 

Vincent Flanders' comments: My wife is hooked on all these cooking shows, especially the competition ones like "Top Chef." Since we're opposites, I don't like them and that's funny because I...uh...really like to eat.

Of all the cooking/food shows on, the absolute worst one is Ace of Cakes (with the ranting and raving of "Iron Chef" a close second) and so it's only logical that their site would suck. As far as Mystery Meat Mystery Cake Navigation goes, this site has one of the worst examples around. When you get to the last frame, you can still click on "Next," but it's dead.

Like many Flash sites, there isn't anything here that wouldn't work better in HTML. Here's what Flash is good for (and this occurred at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo!

Other comments #1: If you have to provide a link for help on how to use a site, you've done a very poor job. Navigation should be intuitive.

Other comments #2: I got a new program yesterday called 'Flashmute' that keeps Flash programs quiet. Worked great on Ace of Cakes site!

Other comments #3: If I could only say one thing, it would be that this site is a very disturbing misuse of Flash. The sounds are annoying enough, the mystery meat navigation is bad and the random broken links and the like are truly stupid.

However... I do sometimes think that this site could have broken the guideline types... or the stuff in the book for this site. Because in essence, it's a site for a TV show and it could be argued that they are like movie sites and shouldn't be judged as harshly and blah blah blah.

Ace of Cakes