Turn Your Bad Web Design Techniques Into Good Web Design

In describing my first book, Amazon.com said, "Unless you're abnormally gifted, the best way to learn a craft thoroughly is to learn not only its central tenets but also its pitfalls."

If you don't know which web design techniques on your site are hurting your business or organization, you can't fix them. WebPagesThatSuck will show you where you're going wrong.

Does Your Web Site Look Like?...

The Worst Web Sites of 2007

The Worst Web Sites of 2007!

I always hope web design will get better, but reality gets in the way. Unfortunately, 2007 was the worst year for bad web design since 1998.

In fact, about half of the sites using Mystery Meat Navigation were more poorly designed than the 10 Worst Web Sites of 2007. Contributing to the bad navigation was the misuse of Flash. There's something about Flash that causes sane people to try silly navigation schemes.

Learn from these bad web design examples:

The 10 Worst Web Sites of 2007
10 Worst Uses of Web Site Navigation for 2007
Worst Web Sites of 2007 #11-20
Worst Web Sites of 2007 #21-30
The 10 Worst Non-Profit Web Sites of 2007
Worst Nonprofit Web Sites of 2007 - #11-20

Don't forget about last year's winners/losers:

The 10 Worst Web Sites of 2006
The 10 Worst Web Sites to Navigate in 2006

Those who forget past bad web design will commit the same mistakes:

Worst Web Design Techniques of 2005 (Those who forget the past will repeat it will repeat it will repeat it.)

 

Vote! Do These Web Sites Suck?

Here's your opportunity to match wits with the wit of web design — Vincent Flanders.

Right now, there are 24 web sites for you to vote on and not all of them suck. My vote is a quick "gut check" and is based on my initial reaction to the page/site. It isn't based on my checklists because I would almost always be forced to vote for "1. Yes, it sucks like a black hole of death." That's boring and no fun.

The best part of the poll is the design is absolutely horrible. After all, this domain is called "Web Pages That Suck" not "Web Pages That Don't Suck."

Vote! Do These Web Sites Suck?

 

Does Your Web Site Suck? Two Checklists will help you find out.

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? Introduction

Does Your Web Site Suck? Checklist 1 — 148 ways you're killing your site
Does Your Web Site Suck? Checklist 2 —82 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.

 

The Daily Sucker — Daily Examples of Bad Web Design

The Daily Sucker —— Features current examples of sites that have accessibility, usability, and regular design problems — including ugliness.

When I wrote my two design books, I thought I had covered every sucky design technique. Unfortunately, people are very clever and invent new ways to suck up their sites. I also feature sites that continue to make the same mistakes over and over.

The Daily Sucker

 

The Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015

The Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015 — 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.

The Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015

 

List of Sucky Web Sites

List of Sucky Web Sites — A recent e-mailer didn't like the fact he had to read the articles. A listing of Daily Suckers, The Worst Sites of 2005, and Mystery Meat Navigation.

 

Miscellaneous

About Web Pages That Suck

I created this site in July 1996 so I wouldn't have to teach a web design class. Since I'm one of those extremely clever marketing folks, I chose a name that had marketing appeal and was edgy for the time. I could have more accurately called the site "Web Pages That Have Problems," but nobody would remember and it's boring. I'm not boring. Check out my speech videos.

My goal is to help you design effective and aesthetically pleasing web pages. My method is to show you bad design techniques so you'll realize what they are and not use them.