If you’re interested in how to royally screw up a website, taking one from something that is extrordinarily useful and easily navigatable to something hidious, almost impossible to use, and generally useless, look no farther than our friends at CNET. They have taken the extrordinary TVTome.com website, one of the sites used here on a weekly, if not a daily basis, and converted it into a flash-laden set of advertisements called TV.com, while making it impossible to actually find any information you might be looking for. Who was on last week’s Tonight Show? Simply find the Tonight Show pages, dig around for the episode guide (easy…the link is hidden, so look carefully!) which defaults to Season ONE instead of the latest season as TVTome used to, then navigate to Season 13…now which page is it on - since the old TVTome had each season on a single page, it used to be easy, but now that there are multiple pages for each season (we need to do that to force you to see more and more advertisements, I guess).

Good news is, there is a plug-in for Firefox that eliminates the annoying and bothersome Flash advertisements that constantly assult the eyeballs. I give this thing a few weeks, until the disgust for this “redesign” has enough people furious enough to start another fan-based website (which TVTome was, until purchased by the CNET conglomerate). If anyone hears of a good URL for TV episode guides (yes, I know about epguides.com, which is unfortunately stuck in bed with the scum at TV.com), please feel free to post URLs here in comments.