Examples of Bad Websites

There are many companies that provide alarm systems for your home. You may see their signs in your neighbors' yards, and recognize the logos of nationally known firms. Not once, however, did you see a brown sign with neon font colors on it.  We'll bet the farm on this.  Would such a garish color scheme inspire confidence in the quality of the service?  In the professionalism of the company?  Probably not.  It doesn't look so good online, either.

This unfortunately-designed all-Flash (WHY???) website seems hell-bent on driving site visitors away.  Put aside (if you can) the sheer unreadability of the text, and try to navigate around the site.  You have to scroll around within the pages to see all of the text!

Don't use the 'back' button, though, or you'll leave the website.   Which, as you'll soon see, will be exactly what you can't wait to do.

We don't know what a 'weld slag repel sheet' or a proxplunger is...but we'll bet that anyone who uses the products that this company is known for should probably buy a lot more of them. Maybe then this 'World's most experienced integrator' would buy a modern website.

Testimonials and mentions on other industry websites indicate that this company knows what they're doing, and may be the only company out there that does what they do. If that's true - or if, as a company, you want people to view you as THE resource for a product - make sure your web presence is up-to-date. Having your most recent Expo appearance listed as having been in 2001 is no way to illustrate your relevance to today's marketplace.

The lesson here is - keep your website current. And if you are self-aware enough to realize you should call on professionals for help, please contact our sponsor.

"Are your hens going bald?" Do you need "coverage for those bald shoulders?"

It is hard to believe that as a company with a knowledgeable and educated staff, none of us had ever heard of or envisioned something called a 'chicken saddle.' Right? And no, they are not for riding chickens. Let us all thank the alert interwebs user who sent us this awful yet fascinating website.

Website design "fowls" aside - and there are plenty - let us at least credit this business for relying on PayPal instead of asking for credit card information in a non-secure manner. But back to the subject! There are even designs for you Packer fans. However, after Monday night you many want to strap these on a replacement referee instead of your chickens.

It's time to play the keyword game again.  If we found the following keywords associated with a website, what would you logically think the website was for?  Elderly, nursing home, hospital, software, translations.  Go ahead, guess.  Assisted living for foreign senior citizen programmers?  THAT would be logical.  Instead, you have a private investigation firm.

What is more surprising is that this old-looking website has a copyright date of only 5 years ago.  It looks much older - and when you're trying to convince potential customers that you have the most high tech equipment and services, your web presence should be as current as possible. 

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