To begin, this link takes us directly to Mindy McAdams' web design tips. Her color scheme is adequate, but the problem lies in the 3-D nature of the central box entitled "design." It appears to be popping out at the reader and instead of drawing positive attention to itself, I find it rather distracting.
Then we have Jakob Nielsen's Web site. These are his comments on the use of navigation bars, which by themselves can be very helpful. However, his page design is so plain that it becomes very montonous as I read on. He definitely needs to spice things up a little with some more color or graphics.
Webreference.com has a painfully annoying audio advertisement at the top of the page. If web pages are supposed to follow the structure of a newspaper, in that the most important information is placed at the top, then webreference.com is making a serious error here.
Websitesthatsuck.com is a very interesting and entertaining concept, but to back up such a premise, I figured it would be a beautifully designed webpage -- unfortunately not the case. It's not horrible, it's just primarily white with occasional spots of blue. The lack of color variance can be distracting at times.
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