Bluehour Restaurant is a flash based site which presents the requirements of using its site before it displays any content. The content is sparse and the link to “Enter (the) website takes you to an 800 x 600 flash site with sound. The links to things you may consider interesting like, say, the menu are grayed out and should you find the link you’re then required to download a PDF of the menu. Very annoying.
The gym I go to, Pure Fitness, is also on my list of unusable sites. It’s another flash based site with little to no useful information Try finding the hours of operation or for a real taste of patchwork web design go the classes page and enjoy the consistent look and feel.
I don’t know about you but I’m strongly considering sending these companies a copy of either Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition or User Interface Design for Programmers
