Worst websites?
Tell us about your favourite WORST site designs – yes, we want to hear about those BAD designs that you love to hate
Tell us about your favourite WORST site designs – yes, we want to hear about those BAD designs that you love to hate!
After the overwhelming response we’ve had recently to our ‘websites gone bad’ blog posts recently, we’ve decided to run a magazine feature around the web’s most clunky and creatively offensive examples. So in issue 163 we’re set to turn something negative into a positive by highlighting the common pratfalls behind bad design and ask the industry comment on what makes a truly awful website.
This is where we need YOUR help:
1) We want suggestions of those websites you deem to be really bad in terms of their design – be it the styling, the coding, the navigation, structure, accessibility, speed, the text, missing links… you name it. We want the URL and obviously a justifiable reason for what makes it so BAD.
2) We also want quotes from designers and web developers giving us a reaction to the question – “In your opinion, what constitutes a bad or poorly designed website?
Quotes must be between 50-100 words in length and we’ll need a mugshot photograph, print res 300dpi for each please.
URLs can be sent directly to us or as comments for this post, while quotes and pics must arrive via email to:
webdesigner(at)imagine(hypen)publishing(dot)co(dot)uk
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HAHAHAH found a website that is pants see:http://twitterpsychics.com/gemstar.html is that not the most god awful website ever?
I would have loved to have seen the story board on that one.
Oops yes I forgot I remember the owner puking on it, standing back and admiring there ‘chunky’ masterpiece.
‘Yes’ they remarked that is gold dust lets make it happen people.
My giddy aunt.
This is a personal favourite of mine. Imagine you gave your 8 year-old daughter a ‘HTML For Dummies’ book for Christmas 1993, and on boxing day she ate it, pooped it in to her hands and threw the poop at your monitor…that’s what it looks like.
Go enjoy!
Lets see how can top this site
http://www.fabricland.co.uk/
I responded to this yesterday and forgot to put the actual domain…perhaps you could compile a worst comments post too!
The domain is http://www.gallent.co.uk , and competition to Google they are not.
My Eyes are offended by thy imagery.
http://www.transportcafe.co.uk/index.html
http://www.dokimos.org/ajff/
i bookmarked this one under the tag “jesus + pokemon” :P
there are good ideas into it. like the “IE popup blocked” style bar on top saying your faith is not secure.
also the cat running backwards (marquee + animated.gif FTW!)
but all and all, this site will positively make you blind in about 15 minutes if you stare at it
http://users.skynet.be/fb203349/vervelend/enter.html
To be honest, it’s intentionally made that bad.
I can only translate a couple of words in this website (its in Austrian) so it could be a spoof and I really hope it is because they can’t be a very successful web design company otherwise:
http://www.acdc.at/
http://www.bailaconfeeling.es/
It hurt my eyes
try this one out allmost feel sorry for him http://www.johntitor.com/
This is a good idea to know about the worst website designs. A design is something which attracts a reader at its first glance.
The idea of featuring bad sites is a good one. BUT
Many of the comments posted so far are just childishly poking fun.
As gifted experts why not offer the folks who put these sites together some constructive observations.
Not everyone has your talent, time or money to promote their business, but at least they are out there having a go.
Its so easy and so much fun to mock others, why not help instead? Maybe that’s too much trouble and no fun!
Check out Issue 163 – on sale 22nd October. Plenty of constructive observations from leading industry experts.
http://havenworks.com/
this must be the worst.
http://www.gardens-of-italy.com
http://www.lingscars.com/
check out the smiley face on the navigation and the (what i thought was funny) google spider food below the play quiz animated gif
:D
There are many awful websites out there, too many for me to list, but a great blog post non the less