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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Summit Psycho
"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.
Fusion Gymnastics
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.
Lawrence & Sons
Today's bad website has a copyright date of 2006, and a message that "Adobe Flash Player is no longer supported". Well no kidding, that was five years ago so it's probably safe to say this company is not around any longer.
Looking through the site, someone's using it though. On the About Us page, someone's inserted irrelevant links to some watch replica websites. Cartier, patek philippe, breitling and hublot - all of which lead to broken pages so even the fraudsters have given up.
Almost too hard to believe: a quaint reference to the Yellow Pages is within the recommedations for finding a good contractor.
Barnett Insurance
Once upon a time, there was a wix.com self-made website in place for this insurance company, we were told.
Now? Nothing.
It's tough to do business without a website, and hard to believe that walk-in traffic would be enough to sustain an insurance company.
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...
