Examples of Bad Websites

Today's bad website features what seems to be a crumpled plastic sheet as the background, from back in the age when backgrounds for text were trendy.  Today, it dates the site instantly.

The contents of the site are sparse, there's no way to do business online, and the contact form mentions entering a 'security code' in order to submit the form.  However, there's no 'security code' to be seen.  ??

We guess you'll figure out how to do business with them, maybe by making an old-fashioned phone call.

This stale, static website was discovered quite some time ago, but as usual, we gave it a grace period before using it as a bad website - just in case the 'Site currently being updated' was true.  Is three years enough?

Nothing on this website works.  You can click uselessly on the navigation options on the left, believing you might get at least the Contact Us to work.  Alas, you'll be disappointed.  Nowhere on the sad small page is a phone number or address to tell you where this company is located or how to reach them.  

The world will move on, and find a different company that has an online presence that is informative and easy to do business with.

From the business name, we (hopefully) expected to find a training system for gladiators or swordsmen...but alas, there was only this disappointing consultancy with an old and odd website.

Note the Christmasy hero image.  It reminds us of the old coffeetable magazines or books that parents would dust off and lay out on display at holiday time.  Not sure what the image has to do with consulting, but here we are.

Bouncy nav options down the left side lead to earnest copy about the services offered.  If only the same effort had been spent making the site more professionally presentable.  Testimonials from 2012 may mean this website is a ghost of a company no longer with us.

When someone submits a bad website that was made with moldy old Frontpage, it's admirable in a way, because the thing is still running.  Sort of like finding out that the old guy who came in last in the marathon is 120 years old, but he still made it!  He's not going to win any prizes but he's still out there trying.

Today's featured website is like that.  Made with Frontpage 5, that dates this website as being from as long ago as 2002.  That checks out, as the date in the footer indicates 2003.  

Bravo to you, B&B Paper!  You've certainly gotten your money's worth out of your website.

Yahoo! SiteBuilder isn't around any longer, but some websites created with it are.  Today's example is one such site.

It makes you wonder if the color palette came with the package or if that was the 'designer's' choice.   You almost hope it wasn't chosen on purpose, because it is hard on the eyes.  

Most of the pages are unhelpfully titled Page Title, and two YouTube video links whisk you right off the page to YouTube.  How many people ever return to the main site?  We'll never know...but we didn't.  :)