Jesus can't save his followers from bad web design.

(It would be an awful lot to ask of a dead guy.)

A thought along the lines of "all fundamentalist web sites suck" may be going through your head. In terms of content, you would be absolutely right. However, I'm talking about a web site whose design is like a tutorial in how not to design for the Web:

www.jesus-is-savior.com

It is listed as one of The Worst Non/Not-for-Profit Web Sites of 2007: January through June by webpagesthatsuck.com. Here are some of the many web design mistakes this goofy fundie makes.

• The background has an irregular variety of dark and light color, making it impossible to get enough contrast for all the text to be easily readable.


• Said background is really ugly.


• Much of the text is too small, making it irritating for some and unreadable for some others.


• The link color and unlinked text colors often are too similar.


• Headings are in a variety of fonts and sizes that confuse and disorient the user rather than communicating about the purposes of the headings.


• There are lots of colors that clash, and the colors are arranged in a way that increases the clashing.


• Some text is double spaced. Some text is single spaced. There is no rhyme or reason to it.


• Some links are underlined, but some are not.


• The site uses too much centered text.


• Centered and left-justified text are used inconsistently.


• There are too many links on a single page. If the content was worth looking at, finding what your are looking for would be very frustrating.


• The page abruptly changes design part way down.


• The page is way too long.


• Animated gifs are thrown in for bad measure.


• A scrolling marquee was added just because it could be added.


• Lots of the graphics are very low in quality. Some are barely readable.

The site's author also made an amusing tactical error in putting a "Say No to Psychiatry" banner link a ways down on the site. It just gives the visitor too many ideas about the author.

Also, it probably wasn't such a good idea to start a paragraph as follows:

The world has become a large insane asylum; people are crazy and confused...