Author Vincent Flanders takes an instructional look at horrible websites,

Web design disasters choke the Internet. Vincent Flanders, author of "Web Pages That Suck" and its sequel, "Son of Web Pages That Suck," is determined to do something about that. As you'll see on the show tonight, Flanders crusades against bad website design by giving you examples of what not to do with your HTML.

The horror, the horror

For example, Flanders is incensed by what he calls "Mystery Meat Navigation" -- when a webpage uses graphic icons instead of words for navigation. Well, not just graphic icons -- you move the mouse over the icon and the graphic is replaced by text. This technique doesn't reveal your destination until you "try it out" with your mouse. Hence Flanders was inspired to name it after the "mystery meats" served in school cafeterias that you could not identify until you tasted them.



It gets worse

If that's not enough for you, try other pages devoted to the sins of website design, courtesy of Flanders:



If you want even more bad websites, take a look at Flanders' books by clicking on the links below.

"Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design"

"Son of Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design"