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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ProCare Home Health
Not a news flash: Flash is gone, dead, unsupported, unviewable. Yet here we are. There couldn't be a more obvious clue that a company is either out of business or doesn't give a rat's patoot about their website than non-working Flash elements beckoning from beyond the grave.
It should never have been the entire focal point of your landing page anyway. You can (if you wish) click on the various nav options, but what you will find is just as dismaying as the landing page.
Let's hope they care more for the people who need home health care than they do for this sad old bad website.
A Better Truck Cap
How about A Better Website? What casual viewers can't see is the blinking gif touting '33 years in business' which is outdated as soon as you put that online. Using the year you began is standard practice.
Diamond plate background - we get it, you are automotive-related. But the ball-hitch menu icons are a little weird, plus not all menu options work from all pages.
The site's not responsive, and although broken, we can't imagine what an 'audio tour' even was. Click on 'powered by' to see who made this, and get an error page. Not surprising...
Valley Instrument Company
When a website is old, as today's bad website is, it can still be functional if the content is up to date.
What is not functional is having your valuable information in PDF format. If a potential customer wants to download content in that format, great. But when it's the only portrayal of your products on your website, search engines cannot see or read that content, which is a huge wasted opportunity.
In this case, the material is dated 2004, and may be useless anyway.
Rig Power
"Adobe Flash Player is no longer supported". Yeah, for a while now! How, as a company, have you not noticed this by now, and taken steps to correct it?
The website itself is old, unresponsive and has no SSL - so maybe no one pays attention to it on the regular.
Shrug - if you're getting plenty of business without an up-to-date and informative website, good on ya'.
Positool
Google doesn't know much about this company and it's no wonder why. The company taking 'credit' for creating this bad website has nothing but lorem ipsum text as content. Why would anyone assume they could set up a website that would do well in search results?
ALWAYS insist on examples of web development before you hire a firm to develop your company's website. If they haven't done a great job for anyone else, why would you think they could do it for you?
