20 of the Worst Designed Websites In the World
We all come across some seriously bad websites in our day-to-day lives on the Internet. It’s just an unavoidable fact of life, like coming across monsters on the way to the market in video games. When you come across these things, you should approach them with a modicum of fear, for it is something you don’t know, after all. But, more than that, you need to be brave, and you need to relish the experience with full sense of humor employed. These are the 20 worst websites we could find from across the world.
Space Is The Place
Upon entering this magnificent Canadian specimen of web-dominance, your eyes will immediately be drawn to the one of two key things: The rocket-launch gif image from 1992, or the floating head of the site’s patron saint, the departed Mr. Head. Both are hideous, but at least with the floating head you can spend a solid 20 minutes laughing inappropriately. If the yellow on blue on blue-r approach to color schemes isn’t your style, then you may want to steer clear of this place.
NOISE
NOISE is pretty much just what its name says, it’s a pile of noise on a flat black canvas. This Czech site is nothing short of tragic in its dark attempt at design – and nine out of ten experts will agree; do not mix orange, yellow, black, more orange, some geocities-style frames and strange gif animations. It just doesn’t end well for anyone.
Discover some of the most beautiful places in the World Through Dominique’s photos
I’m not kidding you, that’s really the title of the site. Dominique apparently travels the world wreaking havoc on internet servers both at home and abroad, but never quite says where home is. We’re going to have to call this one a worldwide problem, since it doesn’t seem to claim particular citizenship.
Mushrooms and Toadstools of the Czech Republic
Again, that title is completely serious. It’s not the subtitle of the site, it’s the real deal, and the text that comes afterwards is just as dramatic. If you’ve got a sudden urge to experience far too much teal for any eyeball to handle comfortably, while simultaneously reading about “kinky” mushrooms, this guy’s got what you need. Once you’ve had your fill of that, chop the URL to hit this New Zealander’s main landing page and get a nice dose of the color I can only call mauve.
TVSeven
At first glance this is just a mildly crappy German website, very obviously meant to supply video feeds of some sort. On closer inspection, it becomes clear that the “image” of a computer monitor is likely an icon of a computer monitor blown up to outlandish proportions before the inevitable forced blur to smooth it out. Top it off with some offset text trying to look like it’s actually displayed on the screen and you’ve got – you guessed it – fail.
BW – Hilchenbach
Here we see a fine example of keeping things old school, by throwing an ancient and largely forgotten hit-counter up in the top left corner of this site. As if that wasn’t geocities ‘96 enough, we’ve also got the looping train whistle and complimentary ticker-tape running across the site’s barren midsection. Throw in a healthy amount of drab, unfinished but decrepit site-design with a nonsense-title and you’ve got German web-gold.
Your New Dot Com
This one’s fun because on top of being your run of the mill SEO sleeze-site (already enough for some gag-reflexes to kick in), this guy states up front and center that he’s available for hire in the website design department as well. Screenshots just don’t do justice for these sorts of things, so you’ll have to take this one in for yourself, but you’re in for some green. Not just hideous green on green, but also 1994 corporate-placeholder clipart. He doesn’t stop there, either. He abuses the clipart. This is a sleeper, on passing by one may not notice, but this place is hilarious.
MSY Technology Pty. Ltd
This Australian travesty seems to be some sort of half-assed attempt at a (purely) text-based infosplash, and it’s failing hard. They made the difficult decision, first of all, to go with center-align on this gob of easter-egg colored text. While brave of them, it was stupid, and it only serves to make the whole thing look like some form of massive and immobile tag cloud from hell.
MIA UK
Regardless of whether or not you like her music, and it is pretty good stuff, MIA needs to be booted off the Internet. The screenshot from her page simply cannot do it justice, you’re going to have to go there yourself and experience what I’ve experienced. Nausea. Terror. You may actually run to the bathroom to vomit, but lose your balance on your way there and suffer a fall. Not since the Pokemon seizure disaster in Japan has there been a worse assault on the senses. If any are lucky enough to be unaffected by this site, they may actually make it far enough to actually purchase something, or possibly view tour dates, but I fear these brave souls are few and far between. Visit this one at your own peril.
Ling’s Cars
I’m not sure if this site is ridiculously awesome or truly this outlandishly horrible, but Ling’s Cars will be stuck in your head for hours if not days after you experience it. You may have thought that used car salesmen in the USA were bad, but check out Ling, because this place is simply amazing. The cars themselves are buried inside mounds, literal mounds of strange and non-sequitur ads, gifs, strange images that make no sense, and creepy images that make less sense. If you’re in the UK and you want to do some used car shopping online, you may not want to go here, but if you want a good laugh on your lunch break, this place might be the right joint.
Bollywood Sargasm
At first glance I was actually scared of what I had come across with this site, since it feels basically like a porn-page link farm. Much to my dismay, however, I found that it is actually a serious site, built to look this way on purpose, and not just for link farming. For the life of me, I still cannot tell what the little icons of houses and, oddly, what appear to be some sort of ovens crossed with a televisions, are actually for. They litter the link-space so thoroughly that the actual text, which is already rough on the eyes, gets muted out. As if it weren’t bad enough that there was a link-space to begin with…
ARNGREN
The hit-counter (yes, it’s a common theme here) on this page says it’s been counting since 2004, but the site feels like 1992, and even then it would have been lambasted for having not only no structure, but negative structure. This won’t be the only site to commit such column-crime on this list, but it’s one hell of a good example. Really topping this one off is the complete lack of any actual title, or even stated purpose. By looking at the mess on-screen, it becomes clear they’re selling electronic gadgets; the problem with that is that it’s painful to look.
The Government of Zimbabwe
If you take one look at this page and you find that you cannot stop laughing, you’re not a bad person. Well, not for that, at least. Zimbabwe is apparently a little behind the times, by about 20 years, because this is by far one of the most pathetic websites I have ever seen. What’s saddest about this poor little page, is that it was updated at the beginning of this year. That means it’s supposed to be this bad.
Hosanna1
The closest thing to a site title I could find on this page was Hosanna1. It seemed to be a point of pride that the site’s name be this. Why? I do not know, but the various methods of subtitling were used to show that they are involved with dogs, afghans in particular. Of course, the enormous afghan with wings animated gif image in the center of the screen also does a fairly good job of showing this was their intent as well. All in all, that dog caused possibly the longest fit of laughing I’ve experienced in about three weeks. So I’m glad I happened across Hosanna1.
The Attack Of Ufos and the Giant Deluge of Noah
If you’re missing your dose of crazy for the day (week), and also want to see what websites looked like when children made them for free in 1995, then hit up some of Japan’s finest. There doesn’t seem to be a definitive site-title anywhere, and the navigation is downright painful. Since it can be difficult to make it far enough down this rabbit hole, just skip straight to this gem, Chapter 17 of The Attack Of Ufos and the Giant Deluge of Noah.
VF Designer
One of my favorite types of awful sites to find, this absolute assault on the eyes is actually a place for building websites. I don’t know if this is supposed to be some sort of plot to take over the internet, by creating more horrid monstrosities like this one, or if these people were seriously just that bad at design. Either way, it’s pretty amazing, so amazing that I feel the need to tip my hat to the designer.
Wolfgang Ingenfeld
Wolfgang seems to take “being awesome” to a whole new level with his private website. Its impossible to tell just how many layers of terrifying gif images, tickers, frames, and flat out MS Paint drawings there are in this mash-up. There is no doubt in my mind that this guy meant to go all out or go home, because sites this drastically ridiculous need careful planning to come to fruition.
Geocities 1996 – CSS Zen Garden
Here is an enigma of the Internet. CSS Zen Garden is a reputable place online that exists to showcase and teach a little about the uses of CSS in site-design. That’s why Geocities 1996 is so hilarious, and confusing, because it’s literally a throwback to the Duke Nuke’em ages. This guy’s gone all out, he’s not only got the dancing hula girl gifs, but he’s resurrected the long-forgotten “UNDER CONSTRUCTION” sign that populated more pages in the 90’s than actual content did.
Haven Works
Beating out every other site for the sheer number of tiny, yet blurred images that could only be described as misplaced avatars, Haven Works has given us something that can not only cure hyperactivity, but cause headaches. Its columned approach to page-layout is missing the element of having an end, and the page itself will scroll down unassisted for something in the range of three days time. This one’s not packed full of ads though, there is actual text-content crammed into these columns at a font-size so small that it looks like wallpaper. Be warned, this site will damage you.
Bella DeSoto
Bella DeSoto deserves special recognition for creating what may possibly be the absolute worst page in the history of all bad webpages. This site is so amazing, so incredible in its evil genius, that it nearly crashes most browsers today – in 2009. That being said, be careful, because you absolutely must experience this site yourself – It’s too large for most screen-capture software to handle. Both vertical and horizontal scrollbars will seem unfit to handle the vast distance they will have to travel. I postulate that no man has ever full explored the entire site, as it would likely take more years than he has in him. Did I mention the unstoppable soundtrack?
wow its freaking like fart, i might puke if i read and see all..
Folks, nice collection, you just forget Manolith’s own website in the list: at least on my google phone half of your webpages do not appear.
I hope you won’t be blaming the device for that.
I love the Zimbabwe government site. Click on “Ministries” then go to “Geological Surveys” and you get an under construction message, in a scrolling marquee!
MSY have the cheapest computer parts in Australia, what do you expect? I have loved their PARTS.pdf for years and years.
what a stupid article. why did i waste my time here? i’ll take a poorly designed web site with usable content any day over this pathetic time waster. get a life and stop wasting peoples time.
i like space is the place… for a new website hahaha
worst of all: many if these masterpieces will blow off when Yahoo! kills Geocities.
OMG ! back to 1995 XD
Hilarious. I did indeed laugh out loud. Now I have two to offer you:
Future Resident (I found this because they advertised for a business plan on craigslist). Not only is it crude, primitive and hideous, but I dare you to play the short video they offer as proof of their talent. Try http://gallery.futureresident.com/
Then there’s the North Korean Website, with links to stories about the “Glorious Leader.” Not only is it bizare in the extreme, the links, like everything in North Korea, mostly don’t work.
Enjoy
fwitz is the owner of one of these abortions.
you guys have yet to seen the worst …
http://stevenlim.net/
very interesting indeed. i am gonna call the Zimbabwe government :)
RE: MSY Technology Pty. Ltd
As mentioned above they are the cheapest computer parts in the country. They have a “we don’t give a s**t about our customers attitude and don’t expect anything different because you’re getting the best prices in the country. Their website I beleive is their way of re-iterating this. “We don’t care that its crap and hard to navigate, suck it up because you’re getting the cheapest parts prices in Australia.” I love it!!!!!!!!
Uh, I don’t think that page from CSS Zen Garden belongs in this list since it’s obviously a parody.
http://www.charisseafood.com.au/aboutcharis.htm
Dolphins.
What a classic, I went on to defend MSY and other people are too. They are awesome.
Internet history fail: if Zimbabwe was 20 years behind the times, then they wouldn’t have a website at all.
Also bad. Really, really bad.
http://www.let.uu.nl/~Henning.Bolte/personal/
Trying to find out what was clickable and what wasn’t, was hell. And each and every link opens up in a new window, which lead to a a depressing 12 open windows when I was trying to retrieve info on the course he was teaching last year.
I’d say a little course in webdesign wouldn’t hurt a university teacher, especially since he teaches teaching.
Well, what do you propose to enlighten your fellow Internet citizens?
A list of some badly designed sites?
What if some of these webmatsers privileged substance over aspect? You don’t care, oh, I see: you’re officially a piece of shit.
Please choke on a pretzel, idiot.
Worst ever? http://www.crazycraig.com/
http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/ …
You forgot MySpace
http://www.lingscars.com has the cheapest NEW lease cars in the UK! It shows how stooopid Manolith are that they think my cars are used cars. No, they are new!
I recently updated my homepage to feature an AK47 shooting the cars and I have embraced the migraines of users here by making sure this referrer serves you a truly horrible multi-coloured rainbow experience in my car sidebar, hahaha! Got to love aspirin, hehe.
Wear sunglasses, dumbos :)
Ling
LINGsCARS.com
This list is full of wank. There is no problem with the MSY site, it is one of the various computer sites that I check every now and then, and it’s the most efficient BY FAR. 1 click and I’m at the newest price list, what the hell is the problem? They aren’t a design company for god’s sake. In fact, I would prefer if more sites adopted simple layouts instead of trying to make it ‘innovative’ and all that crap. I want to get to the content, not sit around drooling over useless eye-candy.
This is worse:
http://www.dokimos.org/ajff/
Hey you forgot this website for being the worst ever, not onlt poor design, but mean spirted too, check it out is you cam stomach it.
http://www.manolith.com/2009/08/25/worst-website-designs/
OK some of those websites are pretty ugly but isn’t this part of the fun? I think without those design punks, the internet would be pretty boring, full corporate-blog-looking designs like yours…
Fascist.
Instead of just making fun of an ass-poor country’s website, maybe one of you geniuses could do something nice and design them a new website that’s better than ours, even?
As a bonus: you get the moral upper hand for the rest of your life, and you can put “You see that country’s website? I did that” on your resumé.
If there are no yesterday, there are no today.
These sites remind me when I was learning HTML for the first time, they should have to redesign, or being a joke by people ;).
you forgot manolith.com
With it’s cheesy links to facebook and twitter. And gawdawful slideshows…real original
Ling’s Cars is truly brilliant!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryUwRre0cLA
you forgot this: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/
this is a website for a /computer science/ department!
lol @ fixed width layout and inability to find anything of use
MSY’s website is actually great, once you find the parts list. Then you just go directly to that each time and ignore the rest of the site.
Because they put all the parts on one page, it’s easy to very quickly get all the parts for a whole system. Because the price list is a PDF, it’s also easy to archive it for later reference.
http://www.jazzyjokesters.com/
When will do a list of bad bodies?
Here’s the worst this week. More to come Friday!
http://concretelyambiguous.com/bad-bodied-fridays/introducing-bad-bodied-fridays/
@AJ:- MSY’s site *is* a travesty – especially since they’ve had numerous offers to make it not look like the putrescent eyesore it is (for free even).
webking.com
lol
Seems quite clear to me the MIA site was made that horrible on purpose.
Good sites… as far as video sites go, this is pretty bad….
http://myteev.blogspot.com
What’s the problem with everybody, these websites are pure web 2.0 and are made by experienced designers. :P
MSY’s only crime is simplicity and making you have to actually read the page to figure out where you need to go. Once you’ve found the parts.pdf (not a hard task if you’re actually able to read) you just bookmark it for future reference (something you do if you wish to buy cheap parts in Australia).
If you want to witness a true crime against the www, point your browser at http://www.fluidtek.com.au. It’s not hard to find the same item listed 3 times on the main page all for different prices, and forget the navigation tree on the left, it’s NEVER updated unless it’s for a new item, and whatever price it’s listed at is what it will be for the rest of time.
watch out for your eyes
http://www.web_4_all.republika.pl
I warned you
Wow! These are by far some of the most hideous sites I have ever seen. The MIA UK page made me literally dizzy just looking at the image on the post. I can’t image how it would make me feel if I were to actually pull it up. I think I will skip that experience.
Guys, have we forgot about the legendary Time Cube site?
http://www.timecube.com
Here’s one atrocity you missed:
http://www.yahoo.com/
http://users.cybercity.dk/~bcc28085/frames.html
Here is another one http://www.lilbitcountrycandles.com/
Have you seen that mental chinese bird’s nuclear missile truck? It’s bigger than Kim Jong Il’s! She says she points it at America :)
http://www.lingscars.com/feature/truck.php
That crazy chinky bird runs the most successful car lease site in the UK.
So she must be laughing all the way to the bank.
I would add Drudge Report to that list. Compared to other news sites like Huffington Post or CNN this is just sad. So hard to read and comprehend!
I understand that it is supposed to be a throwback because it looks almost the same as it did when it launched back in the 90s…but sorry that is not how the internet works!
http://www.drudgereport.com/
http://www.dishntunes.com
I’m SO glad you brought up Time Cube :D
Oh God please don’t!
How about the recent redesign of one of Britain’s best ISP’s with this (oh let’s be charitable) 8-bit effort?
https://www.bethere.co.uk/web/beportal/homepage (warning – there’s a LOT of cyan)
I miss one of those black backgrounded, scarry yellow oder green neon fonts und 500 blinking animated GIfs!
A classic regular in our local CL postings:
http://www.pianoartist.com/
Now *that’s* Old Skool!
By far the worst B2B website I’ve ever seen is http://www.contractlaboratory.com
My friend got a job working there and the CEO told her that the site could never be redesigned because then Google would never find it again.
“what a stupid article. why did i waste my time here? i’ll take a poorly designed web site with usable content any day over this pathetic time waster. get a life and stop wasting peoples time.”
Um. A poorly designed web site doesn’t HAVE usable content. Good design doesn’t mean pretty pictures or nice graphics, good design means USABILITY and a good USER EXPERIENCE combined with appropriate aesthetics. So what you said makes no sense.
“What if some of these webmatsers privileged substance over aspect? You don’t care, oh, I see: you’re officially a piece of shit.”
If they privileged substance over aspect, they should allow people to FIND the substance by providing appropriate design. Apparently they don’t care enough about their content to make it easy to navigate, or (more likely) they just don’t realize how un-usable their site is.
Good design makes your life easier (as the user). I don’t know why some people seem to resist good design, it makes no sense.
aol.com. Too obvious?
http://www.universe-people.com/
Funny examples, but we must to respect owners of these websites
Sorry, but MIA is obviously that trashy on purpose and it clearly does what it’s intended to do, since the whole visual approach is such and the site works perfectly into it.
Others are pretty horrid, though.
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
Did you take a look at your own website??? You have a giant stretched and pixelated gif in the banner for an ad… PHYSICIAN HEAL THYSELF?!
erightsoft’s website for downloading the SUPER video transcoder has to be the worst website i’ve ever come across. http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
here you go http://www.jimmyr.com/internets_ugliest_website/
Being an Aussie, I lol’d when I saw MSY. Tell me about the horridness.
I was so fed up with it, I decided to create my very own exact replica with some NICE design techniques. I’ve even emailed MSY if they’d like to use it (for FREE too!) to NO RESPONSE. Ugh.
http://shaunr.net/portfolio/msy tell me what you think! :)
Have a look at this one:
http://www.altenpohl.de
and trust me: You really don’t need to understand german language, it is really not worth it :)
Dude… bollywood site is not sargaSM….
it’s sargam. (hindi language for musical word “syllables”)
sa re ga ma… do re mi fa so …
OMG!!!!! =)
You probably haven’t seen this one yet:
http://www.facebook.com
I think it’s absolutely hideous!
http://www.denley.com
this pretty much guarantees that MSY will never change it’s website. Watch the free publicity roll in when news.com.au picks up on this
Have you checked out the website of North Korea. http://www.korea-dpr.com/
Quick story about MSY: a friend of mine worked in IT retail in Melbourne, and for certain pieces of equipment, MSY was actually cheaper than their wholesaler. Makes the website seem strangely fitting.
Someone should do a Greasemonkey script to tidy up MSY’s site…
What a loser article.
“I’m a poncy web-artiste, and here are some websites that offend my sense of style.. These people really need to pay a perfessional “creative web artist” to spend hours agonising over fonts, color matching, and using up-to-date clip art at XX$/hr” or I will declare them “The worst”.
Really, get a life. some people just want to provide information with minimum fuss and dont care about giving your eyeballs a shiatsu massage with incense.. Or in simpler terms…
D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F.
Well… I have seen worse lol. There’s is a German Site that even offers awards for good webdesign and all of the pages in that gallery are even worse than the ones above. Have a look… The link is also terrible and the site that offers the award could well be among the 10 worst sites ever. ROTFL http://www.cool-award.de/index_tree.htm?URL=http://www.cool-award.de/award/winner_200201.htm&referrerURL=http%3A//www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3Daward+schlechteste+websites%26start%3D70%26sa%3DN
lol!!! this is hilarious XD.
Ugh bad designers can’t handle when people actually say their website it bad, but thanks for say that. My eyes hurt now. I’m actually a graphic/web designer and most website today suck.
I think you need to include manolith to this list… I mean your not really one to say what is good or bad when you take a look at your own site here….
http://www.fluidtek.com.au/ has got to be up there…
My Gosh the Zimbabwe Gov website is not just shit, it takes about 2 minutes to fully load even with my broadband connection.
MSY is actually are really good
computer store. Once u find the PDF price list on their site u can see thir cheap prices
there are others on this list that are much worse, but simply the fact that this guy is trying to become an advertising art director makes it one of my favorites
http://internetruss.com/
I agree, those are some really bad designs but nothing compared to: http://frnz.de/ …Oh my gosh, eye cancer alert!
pretty extensive list of pretty wacky built sites. make your own list at http://lunch.com – check it out and tell me what you all think. i’ve been working on it for a while now.
I love this stuff. These sites are so bad there borderline cool. Good on them for getting out and having a go.
take a look at http://www.antakyarehber.com this is my fovourite from Turkey =)
sorry for misspell, here the one -> http://www.antakyarehberi.com/
Attention all BAD WEBSITE owners CDC IS OFFERING special hotfix graffix rebranding offer. Quote the discount code PEEMPEEM in your electronic message to us and we will provide you PREMIUM FIX YOUR ARSE QUOTE from now through to August 38th.
http://www.cyberdsignclan.com
http://www.arngren.net/ has refreshingly frank classified ad look in a web design world dominated by tidy little CSS designs that look so blandly similar.
I understand the Zimbabwe government will pay several Billion
(Zimababwe $$) to any designer who can improve their site…
Wow, these really are some pretty badly-designed examples.
Isn’t it interesting (and not to mention annoying) how the non-designers or anti-designers always seem to think we just make web pages look pretty instead of considering functionality and usability on the web? Pshaw.
The web designers did their best, but it’s not good design – the chaos + noise =/= good, functional websites with easy navigation, with all the links lying around and crowding around on your screen.
Then again, design principles/rules and grids mean nothing to people who’re intent on believing that web designers are just a bunch of good-for-nothings that concentrate only on aesthetics. :/
Maybe you’re missing this one:
http://www.didigamvillavo.com/DIDIGAMVILLAVO.html
The saddest thing is that it is of *sigh* supposedly “Web designers”
I’ve build many car dealer sites and Ling’s Car site make me laugh. I would build a beautiful interface nice and clean. Then bit by bit they would want to add all kinds I widgets and banners and buttons and… Until that beautiful design started to look link Lings
sorry but you’ve clearly not spent much time in Indonesia. Most of these pale in comparison with most Indo sites:
try this one for an example
http://www.ptbalirealestate.com/
follow the links, it gets better
Thanks, nice collection. Zimbabwe government site – i’m crying :-))))
from hungary:
http://web.t-online.hu/simka/ (”belépés” means “enter to the site”)
What do you think?
The MIA website is pure genius. Love it.
I’ve redesigned sites for companies whose sites pre-makeover looked worse than these.
Got to agree, I love MIA’s website too – it reflects her personality.
Make your website fast – http://www.aptimize.com
yes really worst collection. thanks
I think if the websites can provides some demos to show their features that would be good.
Here are some tools that may do some help.
http://www.sameshow.com/demo-creator.html#107
These websites just look like a old fat ladies.
The fungus website was really good – very clear, nice sized pictures with concise, interesting comments for each. What’s wrong with that? I suppose that the brain dead might have no interest in nature or good photography. I’l leave you to it then …
This is one of my own personal all-time winners of horrible web sites. We stumbled across this at work one day (still not sure how).
http://www.yyyyyyy.info/
Hahahaha some of them are hilarious. You obviously use IE cos some of the sites looked even worse than the screen shots in Firefox.
This is giving me flashbacks!
These are awful design , i could sue some of them in a reason of harming my eyes !
I stumbled upon the Haven Works site a few months ago, and while yes some of the other sites mentioned are terrible this one just defies all logic.
The thing that absolutely blows me away about these sites is the fact that the original designer puts thier name to them :S
It’s funny. The Norwegian Police released their new website yesterday, and it’s worse then many of the websites in this post.
See for yourself at https://www.politi.no/
Pricetag: 26 000 000 NOK, thats 303 2176 EURO.
what about my site http://www.ubudhotelsbali.com it worst or no :D
its great to be famous by becoming the first in the wost website list… do worst if you cant do best … it shows this
In MSY’s defense…as boring and poorly laid out as the site may seem, all users of the site care about is downloading the price lists and finding out where their nearest store is.
I think we shouldn’t assault these sites, primarily because most of them were made in ancient times. Technologies and design trends have significantly developed since then. Why don’t we scold the first generation of cellphones – damn, they were ugly!
Manolith got another for you
http://symbioticdesign.com/
Is a live and updated version of a live and actually doing business web company….
Re: Ling’s Cars.
Her marketing strategy works. She has tremendous brand recognition, and makes money.
I’ve never heard of Manolith until now.
So the laugh is probably on you.
This site is so confusing and hard to work with.
This site is so confusing and hard to work with. http://www.dokmee.com
I’m surprised that when you go to the Zimbabwe governments site that you don’t get a popup letting you know that some dude needs help getting his 10 million dollars worth or diamonds out of the country, and you are the lucky one that can make 10%!
Haha, geocities!
I used to play around with that when I was about 12-13y/o. Got me interested. Now I am a full time webdesigner.
But no… I have gotton better with design. I assure you. haha
I hope it geocities stays alive for longer!
No MySpace? Ah, there’s probably enough there for an entirely new article.
Try this: http://marekb.net/ (polish)
Very funny and very unorganized. I do not know which to focus first.
Haha it’s hilarious that the MSY owner keeps posting comments under different names defending his design.
Some pretty atrocious sites. I’d contact Zimbabwe and offer a redesign if the government wasn’t so corrupt. Same as North Korea.
Love this… I Think that my Employers website will stand with the best of these!!
cspinsurance.com
Love this… I Think that my Employers website will stand with the best of these!!
http://www.cspinsurance.com
Love it and they are very bad. For some reason I find the winged dog very disturbing. If you add a round two may I nominate the as the ugliest site ever – Cheval International
Why a multimillion dollar company can’t update their look or have a cart I don’t know? As a bonus to it’s hideous nature you can’t find anything and check out is complicated. I guess it is proof a company can grow despite their website. Still, what could they do if customers did not want to gouge their eyes our at the site of their URL?
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First of all, I almost literally wet my pants looking at these.
It also made me feel so much better — not because I wet my pants (I didn’t) — but because I thought my blog had something to be desired. And now I feel so much better that I have done really well in creating mine.
Thanks for making me laugh! I can’t believe it!
BigMamma
Oh, just wanted to add — Is anyone aware of how badly people spell?
http://www.big-mamma-cash.com
for instance is my website and hardly anyone can spell “mamma”
“Worst website” lists are always questionable. First, because to really qualify I think it has to be a site which someone has seriously thought about, or should have (in the case of a corporation). There are too many bad template or inept personal sites out there to be worth listing.
That said, I rather suspect that most of the negative comments here are from webmasters of your nominees following their referrer lists. Yes, content is more important than design, but if the design gets in the way of accessing or reading your content, you’ve got nothing.
Personally, I’d like to nominate the horrid software my university uses for online course delivery. The true travesty is not so much in the visual presentation as in the overall user experience, like the way the site arbitrarily disconnects the user, allows profs to design their own sites (never a good thing), has an inconsistent link layout, and doesn’t display the expanded navigation on the right side on a 1024×768 display.
http://graphicshost.net/images/d4dmxu8svcjpr.png
And yes, as a number of people have pointed out, your own site is hardly a paragon of good design principles.
Check out also my Top 50 Stupid, Bad, Banned Ads and Commercials
Try this http://www.al-qaeqa-news.com – Osama reads the BBC. Launched today! Sponsorship opportunity.
Granted there is a level of subjectivity with regards to Bad Websites . . . design is always sited as the principle concern . . . but what about the content?!?!
This is from a friend of mine’s site . . .
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Originally from Griffith, New South Wales, Australia, J A G Woodbridge moved to NYC from Sydney in February, 2002 in search of, well… who knows. Whatever it is, he’s yet to find it.
He believes in music to heal, words to inspire and travel to enrich.
He is a modern day romantic, if that’s at all possible.
Oh, and his website address is:
http://jagwoodbridge.com
I trew up in my mouth a little…
Ok, I am not a web designer so don’t get your panties in a bunch, I admit these websites are not the best, but we should thank the “designers” for showing us what Not to do. I was a victim of Geocities in the early 90’s but, I did the best I could with
what I had and thankfully I have moved on to Wix.com…
Dude you cant expect everyone to be a Website Mac Gyver…
Here is what I started with Please be gentle…
http://www.geocities.com/myicebluebug/
I’m a web designer, and I don’t think I could make a website this bad if I really tried. MIA’s record label should be ashamed of themselves. Keep in mind that somebody made that site very recently, many of the other sites on this list have jsut stayed crappy for years. That website is horrid. But then again all these indie kids have created a whole scene out of looking like an idiot, so maybe its all on purpose. The flannel grunge look is coming back next, just give it some time.
Hahahaha……..they are really funny. I think this is the best example of “what not to do while designing your site”. Great stuff.
hahaha…l learned a lot…learned not to make a site similar to theirs, specially belladesoto…hahaha
for me the worst website ever: http://www.rentengold.de
in order to minimize the amount of people who dont know what there buying inside the store, they try to make the website as ugly as they can to scare off those who do not know and keep those who knows what theyre doing
It saddens me many of this masterpieces will be destroyed when geocities goes offline. Someone should save these for posterity ;)
MSY parts.pdf is now so revered by local geeks that MSY run the risk of LOSING patronage if they change their site to look good
I’m serious! everyone who loves to ferret out cheap parts…loves that funky lo-fi site.
PS the interior of most of the branches has exactly the same aesthetic…it screams CHEAP!
Msy.com.au is failing hard? maybe at website design, but have you ever seen their tiny shops with less than 100 people in them?
Found one to top these
http://www.rogerart.com/
believe me, if you seek some brazilian websites you’re gonna find some worse designs hahahaahahahah