Some amazingly bad web sites

No, not a Not-Safe-For-Work variety. I just visited a web site which is used in potential customers purchase processes. They have links on this site.

Someone decided that it would be a “Good-Thing”(TM) if they set up these links to launch not one, but 2, yessirree, 2 modal dialog boxes on mouseover events. Yup. Roll over the link, and these two pop right up … … and … you … cannot … use … the … browser … until … you … click … them … which would be just moderately annoying (and a funny but bad design) if it wasn’t for the fact that your mouse is in the middle of a forest of links there. Yup, thats right, you get an explosion of popups (even with popup blocking enabled …) that demand your attention. You cannot win. Bad design is everywhere. Even in “Centers of Excellence.”