July 27th, 2009
http://www.vicwelsh.asn.au/
The source of countless bad website design, Welsh Male Choirs. This one, is actually not THE worst of the bunch, but I put this here mainly because of the baffling intro animation, the click here to enter and the 2 colours that should never be seen together – Green and Red. Back to the animation, wow, look, flash! Oops, they forgot to stick a stop action at the end of the animation, thankfully, because I love watching it slither in like a sex offender at a christening. Weird. Then our old favourite ‘click to enter’. Click to enter what|???? The website??!!! Oh now I get it!! Thank got they put that there otherwise I would have been fucked!
Ever head the term ‘Red and Green should never be seen? Well these guys obviously haven’t. How can you seriously read this?
Tags: bad website design, Puker, tewrrible website, welsh male voice choir, WTF
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July 23rd, 2009
http://www.jfw.ie
Well what have we here. Our 1st flash site entry into WWOTD, and boy its a beauty!
This website is akin to that of designing flash while drunk. First off, a splash screen with the weirdest animation ever! Why does the logo go nuts an fly around this sparse white no-mans land? Then an ever lovely “click to enter”. On entering it gets even weirder, the logo does another crazy jig and then the text EXPLODES! Oh my god what the hell was that about!? Who approved this thing! Seriously, these guys are supposed to be professional accountants. It’s a mess.
Even the piss stained yellow background! And the menu, oh dear. It’s great fun watching it fly around form side to side and then do all sorts of crap around the place. Plus, emphasising that the viewer is a complete idiot, when you hover over an interior page it says “open page”… please. And then the text dropping down from the top of the page! Oh no its a bloody nightmare! This site needs to be saved asap! Or perhaps like the recession, its doomed to loom over us for a couple more years.
Tags: accountants, flash, horrible, terrible, Worst Website of the Day
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July 20th, 2009
http://www.lilysapothecary.com/index.htm
Oh dear. Oh deary me. You know those people who go on Jerry Springer and are 650lbs and say they look “sexy”? Well this website is the equivalent of that. It is bloody horrendous. A harsh pink splatters the homepage against black – horrible. And look, a very nifty and high tech vanity drawer / menu! Cutting edge or what!?
Seriously, who would buy stuff from this site? Go to any of the product pages. Try and tell yourself that you are interested in purchasing a product! For example, go to makeup bags. Mint green and pink and black and yellow and all sorts of shit! I wonder do they get any sales at all – or maybe they make a fortune because the viewer is visually hypnotised into buying their tat by the strong colour contrasts! Oh and lets not forget the horrible yellow scroller. Oh and the fact that each page is at least 7 miles in length. Scroller finger strain ahoy!
My analysis. This site should just curl up and dye straight away.
Tags: bad website design, fashion, horrible, new york fashion, no no it hurts, nyc
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July 16th, 2009
My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken some website designers?
Christians over the centuries have toiled day and night to produce works to impress their God. The ancient Monks in Ireland spent years illustrating a single page of the Book of Kells, a famous handwritten copy of the bible with unbelievably intricate designs. The Roman Catholics built wonders of the world, based on the designs of visionary masters, whose insides were decorated by geniuses the likes of which the world has rarely seen. True works of art and output fit for the eyes of the Good Lord Himself.
So what the FUCK is this???
http://www.dokimos.org/ajff/
This website breaks pretty much every rule in the book and even does some combos.
Here are some of the ways in which I hate it…
- Not just an animated background, an animated background using the entire visual spectrum of colour… All I will say here is that Jesus came to cure the blind not to cause blindess…
- What is going on with the animated gif of the bird and the cat and the other images like the ladder and door, perhaps the designer could consider putting up the number of a good hypnotherapist on the homepage of the site and generate some revenue based on the referral fees for the cases of post traumatic stress caused by simply experiencing this site.
- There is a single cat scream upon opening the page… is this some cultish Christian sound or is there something obvious I’m missing?
- Good old fashioned click here to enter on the site… the designer must consider Christians to be a rather stupid bunch if they think that Christians can’t figure out what a link is!
- Each page is equally shocking… the introduction page for example, talk about an epileptic fit inducing animated background!!!
- OMG the home page, scroller, animated flags, barf inducing background, animated buttons, animated backgrounds on specific sections, the list goes on… For God’s sake even the menu separators on this page are animated… how much can the human brain endure???
It really does get worse the more you delve into the site. Explore it, have fun and report back on the many many many ways in which this site offends your very soul.
This site promotes the Good News of the Kingdom of God, well in my opinion, if Hell was a website, this would be it!!!
Don’t say you weren’t warned.
Tags: God Puked, Hell Webified, Mother Theresa, So did I
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July 15th, 2009
http://www.hkwmvc.com/
Ah Welsh Male Voice Choirs – the bastions of terrible web design. It’s like they are the chosen ones but for all the wrong reasons. But wait, this is the Hong Kong Welsh Male Voice Choir! wow, it’s almost like its a new species of choir. Like the Hong Kong Lesser Spotted Welsh Lowland Male Voice Choir or something. Anyway, whats bad? Well, at least there are no flashing animated gifs!
But what it does have, is a ridiculously oversized image on the homepage which took 2 minutes to load fully on a broadband line! What the fu…? See below snapshot as it stands in photoshop. It’s massive! It’s 72cm wide for christ sake! And it doesnt stop there, oh no. Go into the photos page – yep, all the same. HUGE!! NB: Must have a 36mb broadband line to view correctly.
And yes, another web design no no! a scroll bar! Go to the member section too, its like a scroll bar orgy there!
The choir singing sample upon opening the page is a bit too much. Not to mention the huge “friends of the choir” logos – I mean they don’t even have a logo so why should those guys take all the space!? Friends my arse!
Tags: choir, gifs, huge images, male, pointless music, terrible, voice, welsh
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July 13th, 2009
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/shadowlands/6583/ufology.html
In space… no one can hear you scream. Unfortunately, this is earth and I’m screaming my fucking head off! What is it about some of these ufology sites? When they are good they are good, but then you have these boys right here. Lets list a few UFO’s shall we.
1. Horrible non-seamless wallpaper – check
2. Loads of animated Gifs – check
3. Disgusting pinks and neons used – check
4. Page counter – check
5. Terrible masthead – check
What also baffles me is the space in the middle of the homepage. Everything else is just pushed aside. Why? Government conspiracy and coverup? One solace for the website is that the content is really good, just really badly laid out. For the love of god, update your site asap… or may it at least be abducted!
Tags: ah no now, aliens, bad web design, horrible, Puker, terrible websites, ufo, Ufology, wallpaper
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July 7th, 2009
http://www.irishwrecksonline.net/
Ahoy mateys! Abandon ship, she’s sinking fast! Again, where to start.
First off a prime rule has been broken – “Click ship logo to enter”. Please, I’m not that bloody stupid! Secondly, another prime rule has been ignored “not to insert a fucking page counter… please!!!! What’s also baffling about this site is the sheer sporadic nature of placed objects, text and gifs on a desert like background… are these ships wrecked in a desert? Am I losing my mind? But wait, the coup de grâce, my personal favourite “Best viewed in 800 x 600 format using Microsoft Internet Explorer”… lovely.
Okay, this site may have been made in 1998 or around that time, but thats no excuse for this sinker. But best of all, you have to love the 3 square links under the “logo”. Each of these link of to 3 equally appalling sites (which we won’t get into right now). It’s like there is no escape! Do I click the ship logo again? Oh no! Red text and lots of it!! Neon maps of Ireland! Cyan buttons! Oh god somebody call a lifeguard!
On conclusion, this site needs to be sent to Davy Jones’s Locker immediately!
Tags: horrible, ireland, shipwreck, worst website, Worst Website of the Day
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July 6th, 2009
What is it about Welsh Male Voice Choirs (and male voice choir websites in general?)
Here is today’s choice for worst website of the day!
http://www.treorchymalechoir.org/
So what’s wrong with this picture?
- Firstly, you are told that you are being redirected from the old site. But why? Can they not just redirect, why tell us?
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Secondly, when you hover over the logo the entire thing turns blue (on some browsers it’s a massive underline). But why? As if it’s not bad enough they have to make it worse with clashing blues and reds.
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Thirdly, about as much thought went into the design of this website as went into the skid marks on an eight-year-old’s underpants. But why? OK, on second thoughts maybe this is a good thing.
On the positives though, they did not use any musical imagery or animated gifs as many similar websites do as if most internet savvy people can’t read and need to be reminded that these kind of sites are based around the theme of music.
Here’s an example of what I mean… oh sweet mudder of Jaysis!
http://homepage.eircom.net/~corkmalechoir/body_index.html
In fact, I take it back, this is the worst website of the day, scratch the Welsh one…
Just look at it,
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The ugliest header one could possibly envisage for a homepage
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The less said about the rendering of the crest the better
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The treble and bass clefs used in the background are priceless, as if us plebs using the net won’t realise it’s a music choir unless they plaster symbols related to the field all over the site. On the positives at least it’s not animated.
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Then you have the dreaded scroller at the bottom… these should be banned outright. Anyone found to be in breach of the 2009 Internet anti-scroll-bar act should immediately be sentenced to life imprisonment without trial and without the possibility of parole.
“If music be the food of love, then get me a bucket because I think I’m going to be sick”
Tags: anti-design, male voice choir, sweet mother of christ, welsh male voice choir
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July 3rd, 2009
http://wmvc.wellington.net.nz/
Firstly, the site is smothered in the worst colour to use in any website in my opinion. It’s just plain offensive. Its kind of like it is masquerading as a primary fluorescent colour such as fluorescent orange or green. A wannabe in some ways. If all cell rooms were painted this colour nobody would want to be sent to prison! Secondly, every bit of info is plastered on the screen, yet it insists that it has a menu included - just in case you don’t scroll a tiny bit down to the end. Thirdly, the logo. Why? Why? And lastly, why are the photos at the end?
Tags: awful, bad website, cyan, horrible, layout, website design
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July 2nd, 2009
http://www.bermuda-triangle.org
Ok, where to start…. no seriously… where the hell do you start in this site! This site is so jam packed with animated Gifs, logos, odd links and random fonts, that the viewer, like flying into the Bermuda Triangle, gets completely lost. Hmm, maybe thats the concept of the site in the first place and the designer is a genius?. Well, very doubtful!
For me, the most bizarre thing about this site is just the way everything seems like it has been thrown onto the screen. It’s like a virtual tablecloth swipe that didn’t work. I’m sure with a lot of work and a lot more structure this could be turned into a rather interesting site. But as the laws of physics state, ‘what goes up, must come down’, and this website must come down!
Tags: awful, bad, bad web design, bermuda triangle, terrible design, worst website
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