Examples of Bad Websites

Once upon a time, this was a real website for a real company.  Today, it's just a dumping ground for random blogs.  

No one here has been able to understand how or why this happens.  If you purchased a domain name, and at one time had a viable website @ that domain...what happened?  If you ran out of money and aren't in business - you wouldn't still be paying for that domain registration, would you?

We found this site because the 'designer' for the original website has his own boogersite (which is awful in its own right) but chose to feature Palm Gear to serve as a lesson for what happens when you abandon your once-treasured domain.

Here's a cluttered, hard to read website.  You might think it's several years old - but no!  The copyright date is 2017.  The company which made it isn't around anymore, or at least they haven't bothered to link a working website to the credit taken on the bottom of the landing page.

The abstract photo slideshow with technical specs goes by too fast to read any of it.  Way too much text is crammed in for the space available in the four categories near the bottom.  The ribbon in the center showing many products adds to the clutter.

This isn't a small company.  There is a LOT going on here.  Just don't try to fit it all in at once.

Once the website for a company that is or was in the business of helping American companies do business with Russia, it's now a dumping ground for spam blogs.

Look at the screenshot to the left.  That's your legacy?  

If you're going to go to the trouble of finding and buying the perfect URL (your company name, ideally) and having a website made, why not go all the way and secure it?

We'll never know why this company didn't do that, but in the end, it would have been worth the cost.

It's a pretty bold claim to offer "E-Merchant Secure Shopping" when your own website isn't secure.  But that's just one of many best-practices infractions on today's bad website.

Let's count the issues:  One, the site's not mobile-friendly.  Two, offering background music (if appropriate!)  Hint:  that would be NEVER.  Three, touting Yahoo search engine placement.  Even if that ever WAS a thing, it's no longer accurate.  Four: having Testimonials from clients that no longer have the website you made for them.  Five:  The ones that are still active load slower than cold ketchup out of a glass bottle.  Six:  having a gmail email.  FOR YOUR BUSINESS!

Who knew that scooter rental was a booming business in Williamsburg?   If you want to see the sights and didn't realize you needed a scooter until you arrived, you can rent one.  Why you didn't bring your own is a mystery.

There are several companies that rent scooters in Williamsburg, the website we're showing you today features a slideshow of charming photos of their product in use.  What's missing that other rental companies have is the brand, size, and price of the rentals.  

We don't see the name of the company, a location, or a phone number 'above the fold,' which is standard best practice for websites.  The website is also not mobile-friendly, which in this case is a terrible pun.