Examples of Bad Websites

Bruins, brain, anderson, art...these are some of the keywords (how quaint) for this University's website.  What - you wouldn't have thought those related to UCLA?  Neither do we.  anderson??

Looking at the landing page, we'd have expected features on Academics, or seeing students busily learning, or maybe even a grand photo of a notable and picturesque campus area.  NO!  You'll get an advertisement for a book that a professor wrote, a roundup of news stories for the last year, and plenty of links to the U's social media accounts.

No SSL has been obtained for the site itself, but thankfully the Admissions page is secure.  Interesting note:  "Musicology" is offered as a major, including  courses titled "Collegium Musicum: 17th and 18th Centuries" and "Mapping Sonic Urban Geography of Los Angeles in 1940s."  hmmmm.

Does this look like "Custom made baby bedding, toddler bedding, room decor, and custom bedding for all bed sizes and room decor?"   NO, it does not.  That's because whoever WAS responsible for this website didn't secure it.

It's nearly incomprehensible these days to NOT have an SSL installed on your wesbite.  No one's going to take you seriously, and they certainly aren't going to give you any information about themselves, knowing it's not safe.

Do yourself a gigantic favor and apply for an SSL certificate, or find a company to do it for you.  Now.  TODAY.

Well what have we here?  An unsecured website that was clearly 'designed' before everyone decided that featuring nearly naked women to advertise products was a poor idea.  There's also Flash on this site, so evidently the 'designer' is not with the times in other areas as well.

Overreaction?  Not if you notice this website's first paragraph reminds you to not forget about "our smoking hot pressure washer girls!"  Seriously.  Click on the link if you want to see some old-fashioned exploitation.  But giving this company more website visitors is likely the reason the photos exist in the first place.

Shrug.  Everyone's free to make their own choices, thankfully.  We'd choose to use the valuable space on a website's landing page to promote what we're selling and tell you why we're the best source to buy from.  Just sayin'.

Once upon a time, this was a real website for a real company.  Today, it's just a dumping ground for random blogs.  

No one here has been able to understand how or why this happens.  If you purchased a domain name, and at one time had a viable website @ that domain...what happened?  If you ran out of money and aren't in business - you wouldn't still be paying for that domain registration, would you?

We found this site because the 'designer' for the original website has his own boogersite (which is awful in its own right) but chose to feature Palm Gear to serve as a lesson for what happens when you abandon your once-treasured domain.

Here's a cluttered, hard to read website.  You might think it's several years old - but no!  The copyright date is 2017.  The company which made it isn't around anymore, or at least they haven't bothered to link a working website to the credit taken on the bottom of the landing page.

The abstract photo slideshow with technical specs goes by too fast to read any of it.  Way too much text is crammed in for the space available in the four categories near the bottom.  The ribbon in the center showing many products adds to the clutter.

This isn't a small company.  There is a LOT going on here.  Just don't try to fit it all in at once.