Worst Web Sites 2007

Submitter's comments: I've never seen anything like it before, and can't conceive of any reasonable explanation for this utterly gratuitous use of Javascript. Using Javascript to alter the background color isn't new, clever, original, or remarkable — except in this case, where the results are remarkably hard on the eyes. Yes, I know there's a dispensation of sorts for graphics design sites, but in this case, if I were looking for a graphic design studio to work for me, I'd run the other way as fast as possible.

I also notice that one of the examples that pops up when you click the last link, "Two Steps Back, a book for 55 Diesel, Milan" has an image with severe glare from the lighting, plus a large empty area on the left. What is the point of that?

Be sure you have web page-specified colors enabled, ditto Javascript...

Vincent Flanders' comments: Someone once said, "Empathy is an effort to understand someone's experience as she experiences it and to convey that understanding." I tried my very best to understand what would cause someone to use this design technique. I looked deep within my soul for an explanation.

I will try to convey my understanding of the experience of this site. The only explanation I can come up with is this web site has a subdural hematoma. Wait a minute, that's what sent me to the hospital two years ago.

One of the best examples of a "Subdural Hematoma Web Site" (S.H.W.S.) is Accept Jesus, Forever Forgiven! After looking at the site you will feel nauseous, disoriented, numb, weak, dizzy, and have a headache. If you stay too long on the site, you'll slur your speech, your breathing pattern will change, and you'll start to lose consciousness. Only the thought of death will keep you alive. That, and the thought that maybe you'll become an amnesiac and forget you ever visited the site.

This site isn't as bad as the "Accept J" site, but it's training to be such a site. That would make it a "Subdural Hematoma In Training" site — or "S.H.I.T."

Other comments #1: This web site scared me. I came to the web page expecting a rainbow of colors. All that greeted me was an innocuous white background and black text. Nothing that great, but not at all the cornucopia of color I was expecting.

Then I rolled over the links.

It was a horrible experience that didn't end with clicking the link. Since a different page was active, I thought it would hold the background color to just one color, but no, as I moved my mouse over the new page, the old page kept right on changing color. I exited before losing consciousness, thankfully.

Other comments #2: W3C.org validator says 376 errors. This site was not looked at by any validator, obviously. The errors found by W3C were not the "missing alt tag" kind of things, either.

Other comments #3: Do these presumably Conservative Christians realize that their web page looks like a gay pride parade on crack?

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