Examples of Bad Websites

"A little dirty and run down, but the kids love it."  This comment is from a review of the place, but could also apply to the website for FunWorld.  Sure, it's really old.  Nostalgic, even.  Probably like area residents feel about this business.  The website almost smells musty, doesn't it?

Here's the issue.  What should be front and center on the website, isn't.  HOURS!  Days and hours!  You're invited to call to hear a recorded message, but why?  It would take more time to create a custom recording every day than it would to update the website - if indeed whoever made it left an administrative interface behind.  Judging by the appearance of the images on this site, that didn't happen.  

We're going to excuse the Comic Sans this time, but only because this website is for a kids fun center...

Holy cow there's a lot of text here.  NINE PAGES of it on the landing page. Folks - the Internet does not charge 'by the page' so it's okay and expected to divide your content up into sensible categories.  Services, Products, etc.  Well wait.  There ARE subpages. So why is the homepage so confusing?

Maybe the answer is an utter lack of design.  No one even tried.  There's a bit of attitude present in the text, so maybe someone tried to suggest it and was clubbed down.

Interestingly, there's a link for a neighboring pizza shop with an equally bad website.  But you actually stay on the main site, this is just a subpage.  With no nav to get back to the main site.  I think we're done here.

When anyone out there submits a bad website, getting the url to us is pretty simple.  We didn't find what you meant to send, but we found THIS.  Hot Sauce.  We were expecting a site either about or selling hot sauce, but instead we stumbled across this curiosity.  

Check it out.  We got a few different landing pages, and wow are the subpages weird.  A short attention span must be required to view the content, because it's always in motion and boy is it fast.  Most of it can't be read or understood - and that's a fail in our opinion. 

Overall, it's confusing.  And if you're trying to sell something, confusion is not a tactic that leads to success.

Today's submitted bad website is basically a list of domains for sale by an enterprising individual who has presumably purchased them all.  As of today, there are 1522 for sale.  That represents a pretty good chunk of change, and assuming they need to be renewed annually that must get expensive.

So if you're looking for a domain, there are some odd ones here.  We're not sure what the significance of the number 1215225 is, but both the .com and .net versions are available.  If you're feeling dangerous, ipoisons.com is for sale - and if you'd like some hate mail, iracism.com is also listed. ???

We can't pick on 'design,' really, because if this website is doing its job - listing domains that are for sale - then it has served its purpose.  So it's not a true boogersite - it is really more of a curiousity.

Flash?  AGAIN?! Even your WEBSITE knows that's a fail.  Look, it says so right at the top.

We don't think this place is even open anymore, given that the "latest news" is from 2008.  For those keeping track, that's 10 years ago.

The only navigation is in the footer, there's no home link, contact info is an image, logo and 'header' disappears on sub-pages, and the brochures are all images which don't open in new windows.  Not much search-engine-friendly content here.