Suckage

[den]

I am seriously considering submitting this site to Web Pages That Suck. Warning; Flash and High Bandwidth and fast PC required to view this site.

I wonder how much Duraplas (warning: Flash & sound) paid them to design their site. I wonder how many customers have given up because the site is slow to load on ADSL broadband. It must be horrendous on dial-up. Does a company that sells polythene tanks really need animation and sound?

Comments

[tatterdemalion.livejournal.com]

well that was interesting...

overkill

[jamesb]

The page has got that because we can look about it.

I was curious and submitted their index page to the W3C Markup Validation Service. It failed with 12 errors. That's certainly a poor result for a company that's trying to sell their web skills.

[jamesb]

The Duraplas index page failed validation with 14 errors.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

They must use the same code template for all their sites.

[jamesb]

Pretty much all they need to do is use CSS to handle the page margins, fix a table definition, and correct the line that calls the javascript. Anybody half competent could fix it in a few minutes.

[ngarewyrd.livejournal.com]

it's even worse when they _advertise_ their website as being W3C markup correct... like http://www.swtafe.vic.edu.au/index.aspx *grins*

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

OMIGOD WTFBBQ mate.

It needs to go.

Seriously, I opened that link in Firefox and the browser hung up. Froze. I had to Force Quit the process and restart Firefox.

Not touching it again.


You have my blessing if you nominate it.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

The second time I went there it hung firefox after I looked around for a while. The first time I quit real fast after going EW!

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

I didn't even try it beyond the initial load (56k dial-up here) but with the name "Eye Jam Multimedia" I wonder if it wasn't intentional. Eye jam is apparently what you get if you stare at it for too long.

[annvole.livejournal.com]

I had no trouble loading the eye-jam site (firefox but with very high speed connection) but I found all their animations were of low quality and the first one in each list had no sound. All this flash stuff does not work with the program I have to read webpages out loud. Blind and visually impaird visitors will not get anything. Even those with good eyesite will find their character and background colours hard to read (re the Duraplas site)