i also spend time on the webpagesthatsuck web board, and if youve ever read their webpage, youd understand what "mystery meat navigation" is. for those of you that dont know what it is, ill tell you. basically, its uninforminative navigation (ie. i have to search the images/links to find rollover descriptions.. or searching the page for the links themselves). ive seen some truly lovely flash work here, but i see so much mystery meat nav it drives me crazy. i just came from one site that had a fairly small image in flash that seemed to have 4 hot spots on it. but who could tell? flash gives nothing away in the status bar. and i didnt even get a rollover effect when i was over the hot spots.

wpts's philosophy is that the webpage is meant for the users. and if the page is confusing and they cant find what they need, why would they come back? i just see a 180 degrees difference between the work here and what i see on the wpts board.

why is mystery meat navigation so popular??