Examples of Bad Websites

"Boogersite, that website doesn't look bad at all!"  We hear you.  But look more closely.  The entire site is lorem ipsum filler text.  The whole thing.  

Interestingly, this is not a user-submitted website.  Rather, the one that was submitted was bad indeed - but we usually go looking for the company responsible for creating the bad website.  And that's how we found this one.

It would be hard to believe that any web design company would launch such a website.  If you were a new company, you'd wait to launch your first (or replacement) site until it was complete and ready to go.  Right?

"You may have heard of transportation expenses and school discounts at movie theaters" - or not.  That's what today's bad website has as an opening line, when Google's handy Translate button is used.  

But why?

This used to be a bakery's website.  Left unsecured and unmonitored, it was hijacked by someone in Japan.  

Businesses - if you're going to have a website, and you all SHOULD, please use a reputable and secure company such as our sponsor. 

Everyone loves cheese, right?  Even people who can't eat it due to dietary restrictions - we bet they still like it.  Well have we got a website for you!  20 page-downs on varieties of cheese, and the page hasn't been updated since 2007, when 50 new cheeses were added.  At that rate, no WONDER the site hasn't been updated.  The internet just must not have room for 550 new cheeses.

This is a seriously gigantic website at over 400 pages.  We're pretty sure there are pages that no one remembers creating, and can no longer find.  If cheese isn't your thing, there's also information on Living, gardening, the Secrets of Wine Country, and book reviews.  Something for everyone!

Seriously, though - what is the purpose of this website?  That's typically the first item discussed with a professional web developer. 

Today's bad website is being featured not because of its design, but rather because it stole someone's domain.  

Does this website really look as though it's about cheese?  Maybe the goofy-looking guy on the right is cheesy, but that's not the point.

Somehow, a company called Dancing Cow Cheese didn't take steps to protect their domain, and now it's been taken over by what seems to be a blog in Spanish about investing.  Maybe - you tell us, we don't speak the language.  

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Frontpage AND keyword fun - what a lucky day!  If you were searching for "2012 consciousness technologies" or "quantum physics," this site might pop up in your search results.  If you really were searching for quantum physics, we believe there's going to be some disappointment.

This cosmic twinkly site has got to be from 1998 or so. That's the year that the 'modern day' Lost in Space movie came out.  Perhaps that was the inspiration for the design?

Sedona, Arizona is a magical place, judging by the overwhelming number of psychics and their crazy websites.  This is just one of them.