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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Retail Inventory Service
Inventory is something that retail stores must undertake, yet few enjoy; which is why companies are out there which will do it for you. Today's bad website is for one such company.
A brief internet search shows that there are many many companies out there competing for the same work, so why this company didn't choose to have a website that's on par with their competition is a mystery.
In a business where you are being paid to be meticulous and exact, one might believe that those traits might carry over to all facets of the business, but one look at this mess of a 'design' proves that theory wrong.
Magic Subs
MMMMMM that looks good, doesn't it? Well, let's go get some! Can anyone tell where it is?
How about a menu?
Hours?
Phone number?
Damn. We really wanted one of those 'magic' subs.
Athena Protections
At first glance, this bad website looks white and clean. Nothing wrong with whitespace, right? Then you realize that the whitespace was supposed to have images but they are broken and not displaying.
Moving on to the subpages, About Us is a '404 Not Found' and so is Careers. Services actually lists a few. Contact Us has an error, Contact Form not found.
There really doesn't seem to be much going on here for any company, let alone a 'protection service'.
Circle Mold
It might not even be worth clicking on the thumbnail, there isn't much to see on this bad website.
The 'Facilitiy', Design & Engineering, Equipment, Molds, Service & Quality and Gallery pages are all blank. There's even a quaint old 'Bookmark Us' invitation that (of course) doesn't work.
NOTHING works here. Probably not even people.
Firestone Sheet Metal
We know what you're going to say - "that doesn't look so bad! Even when I clicked on the thumbnail, I see a professional-looking website that is fully responsive!". You are not wrong. However, it is NOT a website for Firestone Sheet Metal. That company went out of business, and until they did, they had a dismal and rudimentary website.
Currently, one of those all-of-the-blogs-in-one-place dumping ground websites has begun to use their url. Why? So that businesses with websites which have a hard time getting inbound links hires a company that does nothing but pepper sites such as this one with 'articles' that link to the poorly-performing website.
It's simply an SEO cheat. If someone tries to sell you this service, show them the door.
