Learning by counter example-- don't do this....

[djr33]

Here's a thread to display the truly problematic and annoying websites we come across, just to keep an idea in the back of our minds of what to avoid--


I'll start it off with this...
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Surrealism/

I think the worst part is the lion's head that follows you around. Wow.

[Twey]

I think the cat on this (http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Mathlinks/Mathlinks.html) page is worse. Ooh look, a <blink> tag!

[BLiZZaRD]

Y'all have a bit of extra time on your hands?

Just hope I don't ever see one of my sites in here, ROTF!

[ItsMeOnly]

Well, my site would be a counterexample too (no matter how cool it is) :)

First off: tables as design schema, although to my excuse, I tried to do divs and while many sections could be converted, most has properties unique to tables.

Second, it's JS-dependent and will not work (may actually NOT OPEN) when JS is disabled. Yet, with JS I managed to achieve the "coolness".

Third: it's actually a honkin' big "about me" page :)

[djr33]

Heh. My personal site has been "under construction" for about 3 years. With no updates, for the most part. :D
That count? :p

I did mean mostly just linking to REALLY bad pages, not just something that uses odd coding... but things that are just bizarre and bad, no matter what style of coding or level of knowledge you have.

[GITs]

www.aperturescience.com < strange site, its the viral campaign for Valves Portal game...

would it help if i told you that all you need to get started is at the end of this sentance?

[Twey]

Err... a PHP error message and a large "plugin required" message. Nice. :p

The Multi-Quote function is nice, by the bye. So's the "reason for editing" box in quick-reply: that used to bug me no end.

[tech_support]

Toshiba Australia

www.toshiba.com.au

Each time you look at their products, it'll say 'Session Expired'

How am I going to buy a laptop if I can't even access their web site? :p

(US site's fine though)

Edit: It's fixed now, straight after I posted it. Weird....... (Looks around if anyone's spying on me :p)

[tech_support]

Ok, here's another:

http://www.dokimos.org/ajff/

[jscheuer1]

I think the cat on this (http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Mathlinks/Mathlinks.html) page is worse. Ooh look, a <blink> tag!

ROTFLALMAO!!!

I loved the cat, in a strange sort of way. It worked in Opera, that's really saying something. But, the music just killed it for me.

[Twey]

Ok, here's another:

http://www.dokimos.org/ajff/Ouch, yes, I've seen this one before. It's a terrible page, but it does demonstrate a rather interesting optical illusion: if one stares at the black text, it appears to move up and down in time with the background.

The terrible "You are possibly not secure in your own personal faith" warning message made me laugh, anyway.

[jscheuer1]

Ouch, yes, I've seen this one before. It's a terrible page, but it does demonstrate a rather interesting optical illusion: if one stares at the black text, it appears to move up and down in time with the background.

The terrible "You are possibly not secure in your own personal faith" warning message made me laugh, anyway.

In FF, it was just that for me. However, after a bit, in Opera the background became fixed except for a few bands of it that were still undulating and then there this dove flapping its wings in time to music and wandering around the page (sometimes in a backward direction, sometimes getting sort of stuck in a certain area) trailing behind it a bit of the multicolored background emanating from a box of said background around the dove and making the smaller text and links even more difficult to read in its wake.

[Twey]

Argh, yes. Here (http://www.twey.co.uk/images/ARGH.jpg)'s what it looks like, for the faint of heart or epileptic of disposition.

An Opera bug, perhaps? Not one one would hope to encounter every day, of course, but perhaps it bears reporting anyway.

[jscheuer1]

To get the full effect of how illegible it becomes, more like:

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It's the insipid repeating music though, that really adds a touch of class.

[blm126]

The terrible "You are possibly not secure in your own personal faith" warning message made me laugh, anyway.
LOL, me too. The funniest part is that they assume everyone is using IE...

[tech_support]

***feints***

[Twey]

Heh, I liked it because it matched nicely with the Firefox "blocked popup" bar :p

[tech_support]

LOL. I came to a site once and FireFox said it blocked "1300" popups and counting. Probably a setInterval.

[tech_support]

Look - It's on the website:

http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/2382/bestviewedwithieil1.png

:D

[djr33]

Yeah, I'm with Twey. That faith error message is great. So funny.

[boxxertrumps]

http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/2382/bestviewedwithieil1.png


THATS AN OXYMORON!!!!
IE is the worst for validly displaying ANY webpage....

[Twey]

THATS AN OXYMORON!!!!That depends on one's definition of "best" :) If the "best" way to display the page equates to "best rendered to the standards," then yes, that's an oxymoron. However, if the designer has relied upon IE bugs or proprietary features in order to get the page to display as s/he intended, then s/he is just a moron. ;)

[jscheuer1]

That depends on one's definition of "best" :) If the "best" way to display the page equates to "best rendered to the standards," then yes, that's an oxymoron. However, if the designer has relied upon IE bugs or proprietary features in order to get the page to display as s/he intended, then s/he is just a moron. ;)

Nice range of options. :cool:

[djr33]

Indeed. Quite true.