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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New York Street Gangs
Here's a website in search of an identity. It's meant to be - judging by it's URL - about Classic New York Street Gangs. There are flags representing the USA, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico - but Malawi? Maybe we can learn something here after all...
Or not. The flags aren't links. The beckoning skull needs to be clicked on to enter the site - and once you do, we'll just say "enjoy." The Black Spades, The Crazy Homicides Inc., Together We Chill...there's a lot of history here including vintage photos.
This website functions as an interesting historical tribute - too bad the landing page and overall design is such a turnoff.
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FIRE!
Fire.com is an awesome domain name - think about what you'd expect when visiting a website called fire.com...but don't spend too much time because you are going to be disappointed.
The company behind fire.com claims to have been in business for 20 years - since 1979. So maybe we shouldn't expect too much from a website made in 1999. BUT! You can and should update your website as times (and technologies) change.
The Logan Group
Here at boogersite, we get a lot of submissions for bad websites. Sometimes, we go looking for the creator, to see if it was just a fluke, or if the submitted website is one of many by the same firm. Today, we have found a nest of bad websites.
If you've clicked on the thumbnail to the left, you've gone to a black screen with flashing words. You'll need to (yeah, we know) click on those words to get to the actual website. Once there, you'll see a list of websites "developed" by this company.
Every one of them is a boogersite.
The Logan Group "specializes in creating compelling websites that serve our clients (sic) needs, with a flare." A flare? Watch out, those things get HOT.
All we can say politely is...enjoy. :) :)
Suzanne Collins
One would assume, that if you wrote books that were made into some of the biggest box office hits of the years they were released - that you'd have more than a few dollars to spend on your website.
Here at boogersite.com, we make no such assumptions, and this website proves our point.
For the love of decent websites - hire someone, woman! According to celebritynetworth.com, this novelist has a net worth of $65 million. 65 million!
Circus Historical Society
Q: Who doesn't love the circus?
A: Whoever created this website!
For a website devoted to all things 'Circus', one would think that the website would have a design that brings to mind the magic, mystery and legacy of the Big Top. Alas, that is not the case.
The website does seem to be updated regularly, but why frame your content in a style from the early 2000s? Big bright photos would help, as would a way to communicate with the Society - perhaps a summons to submit your own circus memories or photographs, instead of what happens when you click the 'Contact CHS' button. An email window opens, addressed to...a Gmail account? No one set up email at the domain, it seems. Doing a few searches for 'circus history' brings up only a few simliar (and old) websites. Perhaps there is a void to be filled. Step up, CHS!