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Sites featured in articles like Worst Websites of 2010 often are redesigned, which explains why some sites mentioned in my articles don't match their current look. The Daily Sucker features current examples of bad web design which haven't been fixed (yet).

If you see a site that you think sucks, email the URL to me. No personal pages (personal pages are supposed to reflect the individual's personality and artistic freedom) or web site designers (it would look like a conflict of interest), or others of their ilk.

If I think there's some merit to your selection, I may post it along with some commentary. If you know of a site that qualifies, let me know.

Anthem Health – Example of Bad Web Design for April 13, 2011

April 13th, 2011 4:04 am by Vincent Flanders

Submitter’s comments: Although my background is more in graphic arts than UI design, I’m a big fan of your work.

My most recent encounter with crazy web layout/navigation comes courtesy of my health insurance plan.

After about my fourth login, I finally realized that the main navigation structure is composed of three columns (colors: puke green, blue, red) on the right side. The real beauty of this design is that the navigation columns leap from the right side of the screen to the left when clicked. And then they leap back when another column is clicked. I’ve never seen anything like this before. All the sliding columns are causing eye/mouse strain!

I believe this is one of the biggest health insurance companies in the country. How can the navigation of its web site be so convoluted?! Thanks again for promoting good web design. Your site has helped me a lot.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Anthem Health is making me very sick. In addition to the bronchitis I’ve had for the last month, this site’s navigation is making me puke my guts out. If Christopher Columbus used navigation this bad, we’d still be living in Europe. This company isn’t like yesterday’s sucker, Unexplained Research, this is a big, supposedly serious company.

This site typifies a new plague on web design which I’m calling, for the moment, jQrap. jQrap is the crappy misuse of the jQuery Javascript library’s effects just for the sake of using the effects. Just like Flash gets misused by Flashturbators, jQuery is starting to be misused by clowns like me who aren’t programmers. Oh, yeah, there are a lot ob bad programmers writing a lot of jQrappy plugins.

There are also a whole host of contrast issues, but they pale to the navigation.

Initially, I’m calling this phenomenon “jQrap.” I might change it to jQueryCrap or jCrap or whatever great name you come up with in the comments or email.

Anthem Health

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Hmm...substituting these crazy sliding panels for a more conventional and useable navigation scheme, all in the apparent name of keeping EVERYTHING above the fold is just wrong.
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What I hate is the nav-bar sliding, then the screen going completely blank while a new page loads. Ruins whatever value the slide-effect is supposed to bring.
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It's a terrible design but at least nothing works. There are constant broken links to other portions of the site and needed documents. It has been one of the worst website experiences of my life. Particularly because it's very important. I will be changing healthcare providers as soon as I can. It's not 1999 anymore. You can't get away with this crap. Today it's just down. Amazing with all the money they make in the healthcare insurance industry.
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This website is the single worst one I have ever seen on the internet. Every time I unfortunately have reason to go on it, I am more frustrated than the last time. Links are buried so that you can't find them, and when you do click on them, you get logged out. It is seemingly impossible to access your claims or your account, at all. Just today, I experienced all these problems again, as I did last time and the time before that. They do seem to have updated some things on their website, however: now, it is also impossible to find the links necessary to complain about the website. Worthless, useless, inexcusable. Why the hell are my damn premiums so high? Doesn't any of it go towards office costs?
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