I enjoyed looking at Webpages That Suck, in particular the various deliberately bad versions of the site. Special praise for the Sliding Doors version!

The Catfish website was just about usable but looked very slapped together and different sections were in various different hard-coded fonts. At least one in a horrible "calligraphic" script that I couldn't be bothered to read. But I got the impression that it is not as vivid as maybe it used to be!

Now this one sucked really a lot! Took ages to load and then the first thing you see is this bizarre landscape thing that rolls backwards and forwards. I couldn't really bear to explore too much but the subpages have a really awful navigation bar, about 1 pixel wide, that I especially hated.

Eyeball Design was staggering, specifically the weird rotating "menu" thing that meant you had to follow the buttons with the mouse to stand a chance of clicking them. An exemplar of the Mystery Meat phenomenon! I clicked on one called tips and tutorials (or something like that) and see that it was advertising events that took place three years ago. Which kind of says it all. But someone somewhere is presumably still paying the domain and hosting charges!

I didn't spend too long looking at the Nesta site but I especially hated the way some of their links are normal and obvious but others appear just like the rest of the text unless you hover over them. There were at least a couple of examples of "text as image", bummer if you use a web reader as the most prominent "About Us" one had no alt tag whatsoever so you'd be none the wiser as to who they are.

Anyhow this is enough for one evening. I'll look at some more sucky web pages another time!