Examples of Bad Websites
There are countless examples of embarrassing website designs and development out there. These are the latest examples we have discovered. For each site below we provide a brief analysis to assist you in avoiding the same pitfalls.
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Executive Recruiters International
It's been a while since we were sent a FrontPage website, but it's the holiday season so here we go. A gift, you may call it, as it could be one of the last functioning websites using technology from 25 years ago. Seems crazy, doesn't it? Yet here it is, still functioning.
There don't seem to be any available positions, unless we were just unlucky trying the 10 or so locations we selected. There's a link to an article from 1995 about the founder...but really no indication this is still a going concern.
If you were job hunting, and came across this recruiting website, would you apply? Or move on to something more modern and clearly in operation...
BVIP Limo
Our thumbnail is taken from just below the fold, so you can see why this is a bad website. Whoever used WordPress to make this made an unprofessional gaffe, showing code. Credit is taken by "MIM Strategy LLC", so maybe look elsewhere for web design/development.
Not certain whose idea it was to have the logo all starry and sparkly, but that person shouldn't be giving style advice. Also note that the 'upcoming' bridal shows are in 2019. This is 2024, at least for five more days...
GIANT Automotive
Would you look at it? Would you just LOOK at it? It's not quite Boogersite yellow, which would make it look kind of familiar...but color is all this bad website has going for it.
For a company calling itself 'giant', the photos certainly are small, aren't they? Show us your location. SHOW us what you have available. There are only two really old and grainy pictures of inventory, and one of the staff which we'll wager is many years old.
Then again, the site says there are acres of used 1990-1999 low mileage parts, so perhaps the 'design' matches that decade...
Mystery Company
Once in a while, a company will believe they have all of their IT needs handled, thank you very much! Often, that is a true statement. Sometimes - it is not. Sometimes...you check in on that company, to find their website (which they had under control, remember?) has very much been hacked. #sorrynotsorry
Gold Force
Gold Force sounds like a super-cool division of the Avengers, doesn't it? Alas, for now it's simply a company offering 'Reliable & Efficient Virtual Assistance'.
This company's website isn't visually appealing and appears to have been 'designed' quite some time ago. We DO see a link to a Facebook page, maybe that's where the updated information is. Nope. The most recent post there is from 2017. At the time of this writing, that is seven years ago.
There aren't any Testimonials, there aren't any Resources. Why have the nav options if there's nothing there? Shrug. We'll pass, YMMV.