Web Pages That Suck -- Examples of Bad Web Design

These are the Daily Suckers -- Examples of Bad Web Design -- from WebPagesThatSuck.com. I couldn't predict every new sucky design technique that would come along when I wrote the book because there's always a new way to do something bad. This page will keep you up-to-date. Live examples.

My definition of "daily" is "whenever I'm in the mood."


MSN Chat Control Has Security Problem. Various Microsoft programs that have Chat Control, including MSN Messenger, can be used by a hacker to take control of a user's machine. A fix is already available, though.

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I'm showing Michael Willis how to use Radio Userland.

Addendum: He loves it.

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Web Pages That Suck
Daily Sucker for May 9, 2002

Classic suck. Actually, I'd rather visit this site than some silly site where you have Mystery Meat Navigation, FlashSplash pages, etc. We've got some poor color choices -- just like the ones I made on my home page. The difference is, which too many of you didn't catch because you didn't read the FAQ <g>, is that I'm poking fun at the technique

We've got an ugly background and the Java menu. I don't know why they use a Java menu. Some text is centered on a page while other text is flush left. While they didn't crop their images so there's no white border, at least they made the images real thumbnails instead of just using large graphics and changing the HEIGHT= and WIDTH= parameters. Wirefree Digital USA Digital Satellite

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Thursday, May 09, 2002

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. If you know of a site that qualifies, let me know.

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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