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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Ability Consultants
Some old guy wrote that a picture is worth a thousand words. Actually, that saying is from a Chinese proverb but that's not the point here. So this page says nothing unless you bother to read the text and no one wants to do that. Minimalism and pink space can be very effective (somehow? somewhere?) and we are a big fan but this web designer didn't even attempt a design.
Web designers love to experiment with color, which is fine as long as you can read it. putting text that does not stand out on a colored page is useless. The black text here is not terrible but the contrast is not as high as it should be when you have a lot of text.
He did attempt a logo but it appears to be broken. However - as this company calls itself "Practitioners of Knowledgism" (I think they made that word up, stand by - I'm going to check) it should go without saying, but please LOOK at your pages, if you have a broken image then fix it dear Henry!
News bulletin: the word 'knowledgism' seems to exist, but only on websites of 'knowledgists' that are trying to sell you their services. The (ahem) 'definition' is: Knowledgists are aware of what they know, what they do not know and even that they know they do not know. My brain hurts.
Ohio Steel
The landing page here is intended to be a page linking to pages, no wait, it links to other sites, oh no maybe they are just other divisions or sub sites. Wouldn't it just be easier to have a real menu with link to pages that tell us what we are looking at?
The sub pages have a completely different look and it doesn't matter if it was on purpose or not, it is confusing and it was a mistake because it will confuse users. We also have a custom background that probably took a designer all day to create but the dumb content keeps getting in the way, maybe they need a splash page so we can really enjoy it!
The menu buttons are nice and big and easy to see, only one problem, they don't match anything else on the page so we end up with these steel looking boxes floating in space that look like they were stolen from another steel site.
