Exemplary Sucky Website

I love this site. Why am I post­ing it as a sucky web­site if I love it, you ask? Because it is the per­fect exam­ple of what NOT to do. In fact, it’s designed specif­i­cally to include (almost) every aspect of suck imag­in­able. It uses annoy­ing music, sick­en­ing back­grounds, motion graph­ics and text, bad color, bad lay­out and (ewww) frames. About the only thing on which it misses the boat is the dreaded side to side scrolling (but that’s prob­a­bly only because my dis­play is 3360 px wide).

The oblig­a­tory screen­shot of the suck.

Great tuto­r­ial, all things con­sid­ered. What’s hor­ri­ble is that this designer had to com­pro­mise all of her prin­ci­ples to make this thing. As near as I can tell, the designer is Michelle at Gold Nugget Webs. I intend to con­tact her and thank her for the tuto­r­ial. With­out fur­ther ado, here’s the site.

I very much appre­ci­ate the links to the left that state how sucky frames are. About the only thing good to come out of frames is the target="_blank" attribute. She even has a sec­tion on “Mis­spelled werds and impropr punk­tu­a­tion” toward the bot­tom of the page.

If you are think­ing about try­ing your hand at devel­op­ment, start here. My grand­fa­ther used to tell me, “You can be an idiot and learn from your own mis­takes, or you can be smart and learn from mine.” Chose “smart” folks. It saves time, it saves energy and most of all, it saves you from being fea­tured here.

Cheers!

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