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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Suzanne Collins

 

One would assume, that if you wrote books that were made into some of the biggest box office hits of the years they were released - that you'd have more than a few dollars to spend on your website.

Here at boogersite.com, we make no such assumptions, and this website proves our point.  

For the love of decent websites - hire someone, woman!  According to celebritynetworth.com, this novelist has a net worth of $65 million.  65 million!  

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Circus Historical Society

Q:  Who doesn't love the circus?

A:  Whoever created this website!

For a website devoted to all things 'Circus', one would think that the website would have a design that brings to mind the magic, mystery and legacy of the Big Top.  Alas, that is not the case.  

The website does seem to be updated regularly, but why frame your content in a style from the early 2000s?  Big bright photos would help, as would a way to communicate with the Society - perhaps a summons to submit your own circus memories or photographs, instead of what happens when you click the 'Contact CHS' button.  An email window opens, addressed to...a Gmail account?  No one set up email at the domain, it seems.   Doing a few searches for 'circus history' brings up only a few simliar (and old) websites.  Perhaps there is a void to be filled.  Step up, CHS!

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Whatever You Need

Every Service Imaginable

Always Affordable,

Often FREE!

That's a pretty bold claim.  Then again - looking at this busy, cluttered, somewhat out-of-focus website - why not shoot for the moon?  Maybe someone will fall for one of the various things offered on this horrible website. Discount travel?  Check.  "New Age Hosting" - whatever that is - check.  How to Grow Young?  Yep - that too.

Common sense should prevail for innocent visitors to this website.  There's no location, no phone number, and no idea where the company or companies are located.  We weren't about to click on anything on this website, and neither should you.

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The Inflatable Church

Here at boogersite.com, we have seen many odd products featured on bad websites.  This one, the Inflatable Church, has got to be one of our all-time favorites.  Who could not use this?  How many times have you said "Dang.  If only we had a church, RIGHT NOW."  Don't scoff, it could happen more often than you think.

To purchase, it's on sale for 25K euros.  Plus shipping, of course.  No word on the rental price, but the site helpfully offers translation to Dutch, Japanese, Spanish, and Belgian - just in case.

Ugly websites in themselves aren't a crime, but why have an ugly site when it's so easy to find a company to develop an attractive one?  This company has some very interesting products, but they are stuck in a website that is a mess of styles piled together with no cohesive glue.

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Superior Web Solutions

If we told you that we'd found the worst website ever - would you believe it?  This one you will have to experience for yourselves.  One little thumbnail screenshot can't show you the otherworldly horror that is this all-Flash website.  iPhone/iPad users - sorry.  You won't be able to see a thing, as this website is entirely made of Flash.

If you do visit this site, set some time aside, it is fascinatingly bad.  Go ahead, click around.  The Studio 1 and Studio 2 areas show some offerings for your website that are simply stunning, in a terrible way.  If you decide to Shop, get ready for an elevator ride.  Trust us - just do it.

We hope you're in a Halloween mood, because this is a truly scary website.

YOU WERE WARNED.

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