Worst Websites of the Year: 2012-2005
Current Examples of Bad Web Design Presented Daily (direct link)
Overview (direct link)
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.
August 12th, 2011 1:01 am by Vincent Flanders
Graphic Design vs Science Fairs – My friend, coauthor, and graphic design guru Michael Willis explains.
Functional Accessibility Evaluator – A very nice and informative tool.
HTML5 Boilerplate 2 just released
Mr. GIF is one of the few good uses of animated GIFs. MIGHT CAUSE SEIZURES <thanks commenters>
Posted in Not a Daily Sucker |
August 11th, 2011 4:04 am by Vincent Flanders
Submitter’s comments: Behold…
Vincent Flanders’ comments: I’m almost speechless. The site sucks as much as my tennis skills (I’ve never played); however, I believe this site has the worst trailing cursor on the internet.
Posted in Daily Sucker, Usability, Web Design, Worst Web Sites |
August 9th, 2011 2:02 am by Vincent Flanders
Submitter’s comments: As you might realize from the link I’m going to send you, I’m a Spaniard. Seeing how there are elections coming soon, I went to register in the local section of my favourite party. I went to the national site and checked on my specific zone. And, after checking the website, I’m starting to have my doubts. The site is 3 years old by now, but that doesn’t really make that much of a difference. You don’t even need to speak Spanish to see the randomly coloured text, broken pictures, SUDDEN CAPS, a banner you can’t click on, horrible header… And, most painfully, they don’t even use the party’s current professional logo, but a GIF showing badly cropped logos from the previous century. Most links from the website are broken, but that isn’t that surprising by now.
My main question is why they haven’t taken that website down yet, when they can clearly make a professional site- the correct one appears 2nd on a Google search (under the horrible one), but, as I said, the official website links to the wrong one- it’s depressing.
Vincent Flanders’ comments: What’s depressing is that your English is better than my English <sigh>. Americans. Ya gotta love how we’re so cosmopolitan <grin>.
Java navigation is just wrong in 2011—no matter what Oracle thinks. I agree with the assessment above, but I wanted to double-check some items. Unfortunately, Google Translate either doesn’t know how to translate this page to English from Spanish or the page is not Spanish.
On the plus side, it looks like everything that’s a link is underlined. This is helpful because we have links with different colors, sizes and capitalizations.
Posted in Daily Sucker, Usability, Web Design, Worst Web Sites |
August 8th, 2011 4:04 am by Vincent Flanders
Vincent Flanders’ comments: I went to Staples and searched for “stickers” and this is what I got.
Posted in Bad Business Practices, Daily Sucker, Usability, Web Design |
August 8th, 2011 1:01 am by Vincent Flanders
Submitter’s comments: Select “Small Business” on the main navigation. What you get is the Small Business page (which is correct), but you get the Enterprise menu.
Vincent Flanders’ comments: Since this type of mistake is easily fixed, I’ve provided a video and a screenshot.
First, the video. I’m hoping stupid WordPress shows the video in the iframe below. Make sure you click the bottom right to get the full screen.
NOTE: Looks like stupid WordPress is being stupid and not showing the iframe. If the YouTube video doesn’t show up in the iframe because WordPress is stupid, here’s a link to the video on YouTube.
If you don’t want to see the video, here’s a screen capture showing the problem.
Posted in Daily Sucker, Usability, Web Design |
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