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Creating your own website is hard. Just ask these clowns, who have sites with some of the most inexplicably bad and antiquated web design imaginable. I think part of the problem is that most of these sites involve a picture of a clown. That certainly doesn't help.

The Alcowebizer serves an important tool to see what happens when one decides to design a webpage with alcohol-induced design sensibilities. Enter a URL in the address bar, click the "alcoholize" button, and you'll no longer wonder what would've happened if you designed your blog late one night during a depressing binge of drinking alone. Check past the break to see a few alcoholized examples.

Evidence that the tiniest changes in web design can make an outsized difference in how sites are used and how the companies behind them fare in business: Travel website Expedia.com says that by deleting one input field on their site's order form, they saved $12 million a year. The culprit: That annoying, optional "Company name" field that occasionally appears on order forms below the individual's name. Apparently, this sufficiently confused a lot of users, who would upshift all of their information, then leave the site in frustration after all of their information was mangled up.