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I've found the Anti-Site

I was going to write about my Web Site Pet Peeves of the Week, but then I found one site which encapsulates them all:

• Individual java applets for navigation.
• Invisible frames to keep the URL in the location bar nice and neat, making bookmarking pages impossible. (I'd be linking to each of these examples if it wasn't for this "feature.")
• Said navigation disappears on second-level pages. (Hell, is you must use frames at least put that fancy java navigation in one.)
• Under construction pages. (Just don't link to the damn page.)*
• Bad, useless animation which consists only of buzzwords flying around purposelessly.
• No contact information. Anywhere. (Boy, your business must have gone through the roof after this site went live!.)

The one web site atrocity this site doesn't commit is putting a midi sound effect which automatically plays when the page loads.** (Bonus points if you don't give the user a way to turn the sound off.)

* Actually, the link to the under construction page is not visible, yet its spot in the navigation (lower-left) is still linked. Nice touch. This is so bad I had never even thought of it.

** This site does actually contain sound which plays automatically, however, if you found the example of the cheesy animation, you also by default found the annoying music you no doubt tried but couldn't turn off. Technically, it's also on a completely different site (with its own set of bad java navigation), however there's no advance notice or indication in the slightest that you are being taken to a new site. And of course, the URL in the location bar is of no help here either.