http://www.safflebussen.se/

notice and admire the brilliant abuse and misuse of redundant logic, efficient “semantic” code, accessibility, usability, and absolute misapplication of …..well I think everything….

- if WE ALL tried to come up with something worse semantically in a paid contest, & had a wiki with worldwide participation sponsored by the W3.org and ADA …we would not be able to compete.

the brainchild behind this is obstinate and ignorant yet the site is about teaching languages …how ironic.

my friend has to work for this guy…..let me know if i missed something worse than this……one page should top the list, but for grins try to read through and understand how someone can misunderstand something in such a miserable way….

run that badboy lccoaching.com through a validator or accessibility/508 screen and see if it freezes up w3’s server again…

i will be glad to provide his email, but any of the ones on the site go to him and he LOVES feedback…..seriously…

Not only does the site have invalid code and horrid JavaScript, it actively locks out (with repeated warning) any atempt to access the site with an “unsupported” browser, and “helpfully” provides a link to download Internet Exploder. Of course, that does us *nix (or Mac) folk scant good…

The “developer” in their Malaysian office knows about the problems, but his hands are tied.

Check http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/ ^_^

All JavaScript and CSS in the header, but more importantly, they have repeated 37 times “font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;” ^_^; (among a number of other properties).

… But best of all, they still use table design, they still use many ugly presentational markup… and the result is hideous, very basic, and could be done, the same, with only a few lines of markup and CSS ^_^; (and it could be done far better, without much more code…).

An example of ugly code from the page:


<p class="bx0"><span class="s"><i>
[some content, with multiple <br>]
</i></span></p>


(this kind of things is repeated all over, with paragraphs and blockquotes…)

I guess it was done by some WYSIWYG editor… maybe reusing an older version of the page, built with an editor which did not support CSS… (or the WYSIWYG editor is simply mixing CSS and presentational markup, because it is not advanced enough…).

<p class=”smaller” style=”margin-top: 0;”>_______________________________</p>

We created a template page that is semantically correct, validates, has functioning JavaScript functionality and has all the proper usability/accessibility keys put into it, and sent it to the offshore team. All they had to do was replicate the pages for each section and put in the proper calls to the database at particular (commented) points on each page, i.e. the code version of “Insert Tab A into Slot B”.

When we got back the pages, they obviously didn’t understand how/why we did the template in the manner we did it, so they converted the whole thing into a table form and removed all of the code they didn’t understand and inserted style tags into the markup. Even worse, it didn’t even work.

Our lead programmer almost bought a plane ticket to personally go overseas and throttle them… Sorry I can’t speak to the site, but it was … aggravating to see happen, to say the least.

Their site seems to validate fine (even though it’s a table driven monstrosity), but when you do a search for a designer in the local area (mine being Gloucestershire) I’ve yet to find one who’s site has semantic mark-up, with nice CSS that actually validates correctly…most of them are hulking masses of invalid code built around tables.

…doesn’t give the industry a good name…

Yes, it’s a good source.

Pat,

Wow.

Nate,

You need to escape the code properly: &lt; for <, &gt; for >, and so on.

GoLive tags, JS library linked from hard drive, redirect therefore doesn’t work. Not only that, but it requires a huge library to do a simple redirect.

greggsband.co.uk

You have to look at it in IE to see what it’s supposed to look like. It’s like a bad trip in good browsers.

A daily display of the shittiest codes on earth. Sometimes also HTML. You won’t find better stories than these

Oh man. Oh man. Really in the spirit of the web…