Examples of Bad Websites

It might not even be worth clicking on the thumbnail, there isn't much to see on this bad website.

The 'Facilitiy', Design & Engineering, Equipment, Molds, Service & Quality and Gallery pages are all blank.  There's even a quaint old 'Bookmark Us' invitation that (of course) doesn't work.

NOTHING works here.  Probably not even people.

We know what you're going to say - "that doesn't look so bad!  Even when I clicked on the thumbnail, I see a professional-looking website that is fully responsive!".  You are not wrong.  However, it is NOT a website for Firestone Sheet Metal.  That company went out of business, and until they did, they had a dismal and rudimentary website.

Currently, one of those all-of-the-blogs-in-one-place dumping ground websites has begun to use their url.  Why?  So that businesses with websites which have a hard time getting inbound links hires a company that does nothing but pepper sites such as this one with 'articles' that link to the poorly-performing website.  

It's simply an SEO cheat.  If someone tries to sell you this service, show them the door.

Timeless?  Or INVISIBLE!  Where did the images go?  If you want website visitors - even to a bad website - to see what you offer, there really should be quality images.  It's not just the landing page either.

Missing images are embarrassing, but so is the use of red or green fonts for text.  They are very hard to read, and maybe impossible for colorblind people.

When building with marble, one could assume there's not much opportunity to shift or change things once the material is in place. Not so with websites!  This old clunker could have and should have been modified to first of all FIT THE SCREEN at the very least.  A design - ANY design - would have been another elementary step to improve its appearance.

The Contact Us page invites us to see the Staff Bios page for information, but there is no such page.  

With a 'copywright' (!) of 2014, we can assume that is when it was last updated, not created.  Websites made in 2014 were much more advanced than this hunk.

2009 is the copyright date near the bottom of today's bad website.  That doesn't seem too old, does it?  It's actually 15 years ago.  Nothing's been updated since then that we can see.

Some pages are blank, one is actually still 'under construction' which is ironic for a company in the construction trade.  The Projects page, which would be essential for a potential customer to view your work has a SQL error.

Testimonials from 2007 and an employment form that asks you for your social security number all validate that this is an unattended, out-of-touch website.  No wonder - the Our Team page is bereft of people.  

Pretty blue color though...