Examples of Bad Websites

As a comedian once asked - if dogs and cats were hairless, would we still pet them?  If today's bad website is any indication - at least the cat part of that question is answered.

Hairless cats are for many hard to look at, which could be why the landing page of a website that sells them doesn't feature any photos of them.  Rather, there are nav "buttons" which may or may not lead you to photos.  In our review, the buttons sometimes go places, other times they do not.

Whether you think hairless cats are appealing or horrifying, you will have a hard time finding one less appealing than this design-less website.

Insecure, ugly, confusing...no we're not describing your middle school years, just today's bad website.

We PRAY that a website denoting franchisors of some of the most popular restaurant chains in America could afford a well-designed website - or at least make an effort!

Not today.  Every nav option leads to a broken page.  Hopefully we caught this one as it prepares to launch an update.  We'll stay tuned to see.

Today's bad website could be great.  IF someone had designed it properly, so that the landing page text is not double overlayed on the in-motion full screen slideshow.  It's hard to look at AND hard to read.

What's interesting is that this problem prevails at both fullscreen and any size you drag it to - except tablet/phone.  It's of utmost importance to make sure your website is fully usable on phones, but don't make that your ONLY way.

That's not the only sin, however.  Using the hamburger on subpages puts the menu on the left (not under the hamburger) and in black text - once again overlaying the page content and very hard to read.  These should be easy fixes.  Doesn't anyone at this company ever look at their own website?  

"This Site Is Under Construction and Coming Soon."  No wonder there isn't an exclamation point at the end of that promise, because this sad place has been the same since first noticed in March of 2024.  Over a year ago.  

So what went wrong?  Surely they didn't hire a company that would need over a YEAR to develop and deploy a new website.  You may be thinking 'oh, maybe they chose a new domain and the new site is there'.  If so, someone failed to redirect their existing url to the new domain which is gross negligence on the part of the web developers.

Lastly - it's never necessary to completely take a website down while you work on a new one.  Just leave it there until the new one's ready.

Parents often look for activities to enroll their little ones in, and gymnastics is a popular one.  It can be expensive, and take years for your little Jaxstyn to become a star.  One could assume that gymnastics centers would have a budget for a good web presence, given what they charge.

Not so here.

This facility is using a do-it-yourself Homestead SiteBuilder which looks exactly as you'd expect a do-it-yourself website to look.  If you're going to go this route, at least check your links once in a while.  The ones here are all broken.  Let's hope more attention is paid to the children who attend here.