Examples of Bad Websites

Often we get a bad website submitted to us that's old, ugly, non-functional or all three at once.  Sometimes we end up not using those as boogersites because those websites belong to a small company that doesn't look like they're doing much business.

Today, however, we have a horrid website for a company that actually seems to do excellent work.  The 'before' and 'after' pictures definitely demonstrate their abilities and quality of work - so why the crummy website?  

We're not even sure how you'd find this company if you were a potential customer searching for 'floor restoration' for your brewery, lab, or other processing facility.  Cascade Floors - if your website looked a fraction as good as your finished work, we believe you'd be very busy.

Did you know that seven years of Kansas history has its own website?  Be honest, neither did we.  Yessir, the period known as Territorial Kansas has a website, but no Twitter account that we can find.

So what's going on here?  This blood-red website is a collection of great detail of what went on in Kansas from 1854-1861.  We can't imagine this website gets a lot of traffic unless you are a teacher looking for a lesson plan on the topic - of which there are several.  Some very focused diarist has also provided a day-by-day chronicle of significant events in Kansas during that period.  Can you imagine?  Is there anyone today taking notes on the daily happenings in that state or others?

This site is actually pretty interesting.  It's indexed well, with links to such things as the correspondence of Charles Twiss, violent deaths and information on Exodusters. 

About this site:  It's always important to take care of your health and technology around you. If your health does not work, you do not have the use of the electronics and do not work electronics so you can not check this website. 

WHAT?  You want us to be healthy so we can visit this loser website?  Nonsensical text between pictures of food and drink serves no purpose, and neither does this bad website.

"Boogersite, that website doesn't look bad at all!"  We hear you.  But look more closely.  The entire site is lorem ipsum filler text.  The whole thing.  

Interestingly, this is not a user-submitted website.  Rather, the one that was submitted was bad indeed - but we usually go looking for the company responsible for creating the bad website.  And that's how we found this one.

It would be hard to believe that any web design company would launch such a website.  If you were a new company, you'd wait to launch your first (or replacement) site until it was complete and ready to go.  Right?

"You may have heard of transportation expenses and school discounts at movie theaters" - or not.  That's what today's bad website has as an opening line, when Google's handy Translate button is used.  

But why?

This used to be a bakery's website.  Left unsecured and unmonitored, it was hijacked by someone in Japan.  

Businesses - if you're going to have a website, and you all SHOULD, please use a reputable and secure company such as our sponsor.