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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AdCal
Today's bad website is a sad old Yahoo SiteBuilder website. With a broken 'hit counter', which dates it back to the 1900s, at least. (Kidding) Or are we?
The company says they've been in business for 'over 7 years', which could be much much longer by now, if this website has been sitting there, not updated, since it was created.
There's a quaint reference to a "land phone" number, and unsurprisingly, a link to Yahoo! Maps.
Family Child Center
Binary option trading in india. That's what you wanted to find on a website for a Family Child Learning Center, isn't it? Must be true, because we're looking right at it.
As a courtesy, we tried to email every address present on the site, all bounced back. Why even have a website if it's been hacked, and no one mentioned on it works there any longer? It would be hard to trust any service offered by this place.
The Enclave
Today's bad website is for a condominium communtiy that we recommend you check out - if you'd like to live like it's 1995, that is!
This website, in all of its outdated splendor, is meant to be the bulletin board for a rather expensive place to live. You wouldn't know it by looking at this abomination, though. Even the ultimate website analytics tool of 1996 (a hit counter) gave up and died.
At least the 30 page 'handbook' of Rules & Regulations is still available.
Vivid Hair
Today's bad website is like an abandoned boutique with a lot of pretty mannequins left behind. Pictures of silent women with beautiful hair are all you'll find here.
There are navigation options, but like walking from one empty room into another, all you'll find is creepy silence.
Maybe the site is still being built? Or maybe it was abandoned. Shrug. Either way, there's not even an indication of where this business is - if it ever even existed at all.
Robben
Today's bad website has a 'web only deal' that expires at the end of September 2010, so we don't think anyone's going to be offended when we point out what makes it a boogersite.
There's no evidence of styling, not even a basic effort to have consistency from page to page. No footer.
Every link on the site opens in the same window, meaning you just escorted visitors off your website and on to someone else's. That's never a good idea - but you'll be glad to leave this website and land on one that's much more modern.
