Examples of Bad Websites

Let's pretend that you design websites.  Professionally.  Would it be important to you, hypothetically, to have a kick-ass website with many examples of your work?  OF COURSE IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT!!

It's not important, apparently, to the owner(s) of today's bad website.  Not only is the site itself small, old and unresponsive, Featured Sites is a 404 Page Not Found!  An internal link to a free consultation also leads to a 404 page, as does a link to 'Contact us and let us handle your site hosting.'

There's nothing on this website to lead a vistor to believe the company actually CAN design a website, let alone a working one.

These days, the use of Flash on a website is an easy indicator of the age of the website.  No one with an iPhone could ever view the content, and unless you live in a $#!t-hole country, you'd realize that many many people have an iPhone.  Strike one.

There is an audio file playing.  Strike two.

To reserve a vehicle from this company, you may fill out a form on the website which includes fields for your credit card number including the CVV code.  ON AN UNSECURED WEBSITE.  Strike three.

Part of your online strategy should also be keeping an eye on reviews that have been left for your company, and responding (especially) to anything negative.  Many negative reviews exist for this company, none with a response from ownership.

Whether you are a person bothered by clutter or not,  this disorganized MESS is enough to throw a sane person into a fit of anxiety.  Where do you start!?

The center panel for News & Announcments would benefit from obvious date-stamping, and archiving articles as newer ones are added.  Upcoming Events on the left side are a paltry word or two, and not even clickable to get to more detail.

How about the right side?  Link after link after link which seem to duplicate the (normal) horizontal nav choices near the top.

If you tried to use this non-responsive website on a smartphone, you might cry.

Although we haven't seen every bad website on the internet, we've seen a lot.  What we haven't seen is a business website with a page devoted to explaining the technologies used to create the website, and a bio of the developer!

As if the "design" didn't tip you off, a glaringly obvious clue that this is an o-l-d website is the fact that is "optimized for MS Internet Explorer 5.0"  For real?  Another clue:  The landing page has an announcement from 2005. Then again, we don't think this place is in business anymore.

If not in business, why leave your old website hanging out there like dirty laundry?  If you ARE still in business - for cripes' sake - update your website!

We've been sitting on this bad website for a while, hoping something would change about the page presented when we try to view it.  Unfortunately, nothing has changed in months.

According to a popular online resource for company data which includes earnings, number of employees, and similar information - this company this website represents a business that's been around since 1929, has 55 employees, and over $8M in yearly revenue.

So what happened to their website?  A sign company surely understands the importance and value of quality signage - and what is a website really but a sign on the internet?