Tuesday 29 January 2013

!0 OF THE WORSTE WEBSITES ONLINE


Clashing colours, animated GIF’s, flashing text and more. Each of these 10 websites have committed the crime of assault on the eyes.
1) Yvettesbridalformal.com
I think Yvette’s is a bridal shop. When you think of weddings, you think of style and class. I don’t think this is quite what the website portrays.

2) Mccormickrecovery.co.uk
I’m sure they offer a great service, but I’m sure the amount breakdown recovery costs, they could have got a professional in to do the website. This this site, not only do we have animated GIF’s and a hideous yellow background, we also have scrolling text moving over the main picture.
3) Fabricland.co.uk
Another fan of the yellow here. With multicoloured tables , animated GIF’sand confusing navigation, the designer also seems to have ignored the aspect ration of the images with pictures stretched. Search engine optimisation is lacking too with the title of the website showing as “New page 1″.
4) dokimos.org
Whilst it’s not as bad as some of the others, this still deserves it’s place here. Dokimos.org bills itself as an “Interactive 3-D Virtual World Ministry”. It’s also an assault on the senses.
5) Havenworks.com
Havenworks seems to be some sort of news website. I’ve tried to clarify what it actually is, honestly, but there’s just so much information on the page, I give up after approximately 3 seconds. A lot of effort seems to have gone into the site, but it’s just an information overload.
6) Ronoslund.com
This seems to be a personal homepage of a guy called Ron Oslund. Now from the homepage I can see he may have been in a band at some point, but that’s pretty much it. The site seems to be “under construction” although it seems to have been that way since 17th August 2001.
7) Haiti-News.net
I’m not sure what the point of this stite is – it just seems to be a collection of animated images linking to Haiti related content. Just visit it and you see why it’s ended up in this list.
8) Arngren.net
This is a Norwegian gadget company. It looks like they have some great products but there is really no need to try and cram them all onto the homepage! It even ignores the window size and you have to keep scrolling sideways. Oh, and see the flags at the top of the page? You would expect to find an English version of the site there, yes? Nope – it takes you to a page where they try to sell you a pocket translator.
9) frnz.de
I’ve no idea what this site is about (anyone?) – I do know it deserves to be here though!
10) Lingscars.com
Last but not least is Lings Cars. Created by Ling Valentine who appeared on the BBC’s Dragon’s Den. I’ve included this site on the list not because I think it’s bad, but because it has a reputation of being bad. I actually quite like it. It’s fun, quirky, and definitely wacky.

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