In November of 2005 I wrote an article on entitled “Why Vincent Flanders, of webpagesthatsuck.com, is a Success, but Still Misses the Point.” It’s a bit dated, but the idea is still valid. Today I revisited webpagesthatsuck.com expecting to find an updated vibrant website and I was unfortunately surprised by the lack of change. It seems that webpagesthatsuck contains essentially the exact same content, dated site design, and lack of images that it did over a year ago.
I would think with all that traffic (Alexa rank is 23,538), two books out, and a website with a page rank of 7 he would have done more with the site. He has Google adsense on there (meaning he’s trying to make money from the website traffic), but not in a place that will get enough click throughs and his website almost completely void of useful imagines and surprisingly enough violates many of it’s own rules. I remember how impressed I was with the innovative marketing strategy when I first learned of web pages that suck 10 years ago when I designed my first website.
[tags]web usability, web design mistakes[/tags]