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Web Pages That Suck Presents The 20 Worst Websites of 2014

some websites are unbelievably bad

This year there's less emphasis on using Over-The-Top websites—mostly because I've separated them into their own document The 12 Worst Over-The-Top Websites of 2014—and started discussing mobile mistakes along with more serious design flaws. This shouldn't be a surprise as the world is seeing a quantifiable move from the desktop to mobile.

The 20 Worst Websites of 2014

The 12 Worst Over-The-Top Websites of 2014

this website is really poorly designed

Here are 2014's websites that make you ask questions like, "WTF is going on here?" Many of these sites cause me to exclaim, "You've got to be kidding me!" Well, those aren't my exact words <grin>.

The 12 Worst Over-The-Top Websites of 2014

 

The Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015

Don't make these common web design mistakes

I've gathered what I think are the biggest web design mistakes committed during the period 1995 to 2015. Yes, it is a little facetious to say these mistakes will be made in the year 2015, but it's human nature to repeat your mistakes over and over. But it's human nature to repeat your mistakes over and over.

If you could take away one thought from the article, I would like it to be "Visitors to your web site don't care about your problems. They want you to solve their problems now.

Here's the quickie list:

The Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015

  1. We've designed our site to meet our organization's needs (more sales/ contributions) rather than meeting the needs of our visitors.
  2. A man from Mars can’t figure out what your web site is about in less than four seconds.
  3. Focus, dammit.
  4. Using design elements that get in the way of your visitors.
  5. Thinking your web site is your marketing strategy.
  6. Have you ever seen another web site? Really? Doesn't look like it.
  7. Navigational failure.
  8. Using Mystery Meat Navigation.
  9. Site lacks Heroin Content.
  10. Forgetting the purpose of text.
  11. Too much material on one page.
  12. Confusing web design with a magic trick.
  13. Misusing Flash.
  14. Misunderstanding the use of graphics.
  15. Mystical belief in the power of Web Standards, Usability, and tableless CSS.
  16. Javascript.

The Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015

Web Design Checklists

checklist of bad design

Smashing Magazine put these lists under the category "Ultimate Web Design Checklists" and said:

This checklist from Web Pages That Suck is one of the most complete checklists out there.

My two web design checklists will help your website not suck.

You don't have to spend thousands of dollars on seminars or spend hundreds of dollars on books to find out what's wrong with your web site.

I'm giving you the tools to do the job yourself. Just compare your site against two easy-to-use checklists and find out if your site sucks.

Does Your Web Site Suck? Checklist 1 — 178 ways you're killing your site.
Does Your Web Site Suck? Checklist 2 — 83 ways you're maiming your site.

What do I do now? — Hopefully, fix what's wrong.
What we clicked on in Checklist 1 — See mistakes others have made.
Top 30 Web Design Mistakes — See the most "popular" mistakes.