Daily Sucker #1 for Tuesday, May 12, 2009

SAVEMCINTIRE(for those who don’t like to read and just want the link)

Submitter’s comments: Here’s a good candidate for your “Pages That Suck” web site. It’s from Charlottesville, Virginia, and it’s called “Save McIntire” or something similar. I really can’t tell. At any rate, although recently constructed, this page seems to exist at some internet moment in 1995 — some very horrible moment.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: This site’s text issues of remind me of the Marijuana.org web site. What a classic.

First, there’s no logo. Then we have all sorts of text problems — large text, medium text, smaller text, etc., which are a result of the 118 FONT tags on the page. It’s a mess.

About 3/4 of the way down the page are a bunch of images of girls playing softball. The problem is the one we see all the time: the pictures are large and they’ve changed the HEIGHT= and the WIDTH= attributes to make the images fit in a smaller spaced. Unfortunately, the file sizes don’t change. I’m going to assume (perhaps incorrectly) that the site was created on a Windows machine. Here’s a link to RIOT, a free image optimization tool for Windows. There’s also Smush.it, which is an online optimizer anyone can use. The folks who created this site need to use them to fix their images.

SAVEMCINTIRE

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