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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Noisy Oyster Pub
What used to be a website for a popular pub serving seafood is now something completely different. Unless you think a banner image of a city in the People's Republic of China is still somehow related to an oyster pub...
How many times, and for how long do we have to repeat SECURE YOUR WEBSITE ? Seems like we haven't done it enough. It doesn't cost much, but isn't any amount worth it to keep your website from being hacked and stolen?
W. W. Schaub
Someone call Antiques Roadshow, quick! This relic is still live, featuring waving American flags. Not that there's anything wrong with waving an American flags, but animated gifs on a website? Hello 1995! There are much better ways to demonstrate patriotism online these days.
Then again, nothing about this website indicates that it has ever been updated. Projects featured start at 2002 and go until 2008. That's TWELVE YEARS ago. Also, saying you use AutoCad 2000 isn't really impressive, because that means your computers are o-l-d as well.
Hagstoz Silver
In case you can't tell by the featured picture - and who could? - this website is for a company that sells jewelry-making supplies. It's hard to tell, because the same 'product' is shown as Featured, and as Tools. It doesn't look like a tool to us, but whatever.
Other than the cardinal sin of not knowing what your company does at a glance, the Contact page is completely missing its Contact Form. [contact-form-7 404 "Not Found"] is in its place. Failing that, there's a Gmail address to use. Gmail. Not "info@" the company's url. Weird.
Having a menu option for Products is pretty useless when the only option is Silver. Of the 29 Products shown, most of them could have been condensed with simple attributes.
Harmon Web Innovations
It's a special kind of tragic when we come across a website for a web development company that makes themselves look bad. What were you thinking!? Trying to sell other people your services with glaring errors on your own website?
Wasting nearly the entire area above the fold is reckless. "By anticipating our "cleient's" needs", "When you bussiness start to grow" and "many companies don't know how to implment such technolgy" shows you can't and don't proofread.
Giving employee 1 a name and info, while leaving employee 2 as a random stock photo and lorem ipsum bio is pitiful. Then you go and mention Bitcoin?
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Web Factors
We held on to this one. It was submitted almost exactly a year ago, from someone who said "funny, I didn't think a WEB company would take their own website down before putting a new one up immediately" and they were correct. Why would you do that? Just keep the old one up until the new one's ready.
However, being in the business, we held on to it in case a new site was forthcoming. Welp - here it is, a YEAR later, and no new site. So as far as "Internet Business Strategy and Development", we're calling it a fail.
