Top 10 Worst Websites You’ll Wish You Hadn’t Seen

Aww now that just makes me feel so much better about my own sites! Though I owe it all to those talented Wordpress theme designers.

You forgot Aaron Wall’s first site www.newnavy.us.

the worst

Why people are still paying to host such websites? One of the mentioned site is offering site design and have whole load of explanation about websites, it has hint there the website was there at around 1998. Gosh..

this is a great post, and the best list i’ve ever heard.

Great list, I’ve been looking round trying to find a site which would beat these 10 but im not sure it’s possible!

£89.99 to register a domain name AND £2 a month?

Don’t use them, I can do all that for a one-off charge of £100

It annoys me to think that they may actually con someone into paying that….

Ling’s is a p*sstake, shurely?

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That image heavy Norwegian one isn’t bad. I guess the loading could prove an irritation, but I wouldn’t call it ugly.

Wow, flashback!
How about this banner:
www.aanmelden.com/images/banners/aan468a.gif

(submit your website to 70,000 search engines)

I’m going to have nightmares about these websites tonight.

Some good finds. Here is another good one. plywoodstormclip.com

Are you serious? That Norwegian site is dog..

Thanks for not including me on your list.

Loving your post. I’m too afraid to look at the mentioned websites. Danny.

Ewww. They are hideous! That jesus one is hell to the eyes, why use a horizontal scrolling background image of rainbow colours. Yuk.

Wow. Just… wow.

I especially like the one offering to design your page for you.

It makes my brain hurt just to think about it.

Best one was the first. Look at the source; that’s why MS Word should never be used for design…

I don’t actually understand that, is it really so hard to redesign site?

i love them !

WOW! I’ve always wanted to write a post like this but I’ve never seen sites THIS bad. Amazing job!

I suppose they work well as some weird form of linkbait. I cant see how anyone would get a car off Ling even if its cheap would you ever trust anything from a website like that!

This page is gold!
My company had a site like those before I got hired and insisted on changing it.

Thanks God I insisted, or the whole Diggsphere could have been digging my company’s lameness.

I worked for this company! They sucked!

http://www.computer-physicians.com/

It is hard to grasp, but there are people out there with NO concept of design or aesthetics. Couple that with the attitude, “Why should we pay someone a fortune to design our site? It’s easy, John in IT can do that”, and some bright spark, John, who knows how to use 5 basic HTML tags and there is your result!

These are really awful, and I think the Jesus and VF Designer sites are vying for worst of the worst. Ling is kinda cute, though.

ok-you guys gotta see this one:

note: these guys SELL COMPUTERS!

http://cbm-eureka.com/

It would really take some effort to beat this list, nice job.

I, too, tried the www.arngren.net site in multiple browsers and I can only say, “I think they meant it to look that way.” Firefox, Opera, and Safari all rendered it the same way for me, and IE slightly differently. Neither looked good.

I disagree about the spinning rainbow Jesus site, though. It’s definately the worst. I think I had a seizure just looking at it.

I am a bit embarrased to admit that I could have designed the blue-green and yellow insurance site, though. My taste is that bad. It’s why I don’t do web design, no matter how much someone asks. I’m addicted to the blink tag.

That Franz one - laugh all you like, but he apparently has over half a million visits, and a Pagerank of 4..! That’s more than I have, that’s for sure! Hmmm, how does it go again..? , {font-color: garish;}…

(P.S. Weird, your blog has me as having posted a blank comment…)

Good find…. but most of them have a good PR…

There are some great tips for making pages almost as great as these at:
link

whew!…mine didn’t make it ^_^

If only I could show you the website my boss put up for our paper instead of paying me to do it. He takes the “bite off his nose to spite his face” to a new level.

Hey my blog not include?? It is quite surprised..

LOL. Man, this crap is the biggest joke i’ve ever seen.

The worst website I’ve ever seen is http://www.populationpaste.com

Some of the sites on there are offensive to me! Especially Web Wizz. I hope that is a joke, I really do.

Haha awesome post.

Re: MSY, you wouldn’t believe how popular they are. Often when you go to the stores, the line stretches right out the door.

The stock is just a mess everywhere so when you get to the front of the line you just tell the staff what you want. Crappy design but cheap prices = loyal customers.

That Ling has been spraying Whitespace Remover all over her site.

I’m just glad that the websites I did back in the 20th century were on free hosts and have vanished by now (I think). I’m sure they were similar. I’m thinking that somebody just left these up since then and forgot about them.

Hey, everyone, it’s fantastic to be on this list. I will be promoting my position soon on my site. Just to let you know that my website will move well over £25 million UKP of new cars at retail prices in 2008 (as I write this Nov 9th, I’m up to £23 million). That’s ALL from my website, I have no physical sales point. Goes to show, not everyone likes clean, cool design Websites should give a warm feeling of individuality, I think. You can tell there are real people behind these sites, not just some corporate body paying £25k to a web-design company for the usual corporate rubbish.

See you online LOADS of visitors to my site from here, btw.

Glad to see there are so many web-experts out there (you are funny onions ) - if anyone can beat my web sales (total income 2008 £250,000UKP - that’s over $1/2 million USD,) let me know and I’ll listen to your expertise. Hehehehe.

I’m based in Gateshead, UK.

Ling
LINGsCARS

just another example:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010404002721/www.ncc.up.pt/~zp/

You forgot goatse

Honestly there is way too much stuff on ling cars. It hurts my eyes and doesn’t look at all professional. The fact that she has made so many sales is mind blowing to me. All I can say is congrats!

Ben, I know this is not the place to get into a discussion (maybe it is), but I will explain my reasoning, just so you don’t think I’m completely bonkers.

I work in an environment (new cars, UK) where the franchised dealer rules. They have posh brick and mortar premises but generally poor (no emotion) websites. Plus there are lots of companies doing what I do, new car brokering - of various flavours. They tend to have poor, non-dynamic or wrist-slashingly boring websites. ABC Leasing, that sort of name. All these websites built to a price and rarely updated, and with cars as content.

I am a Chinese bird moving new cars in the UK. Do I stand a chance? No. So… I decided to make my uniqueness my USP. Me. Now, I need traffic, for that I need lots of content. Natural Google searches account for more than 60% of all site traffic. I do not buy adwords. I go off on tangents and get publicity instead, like with my nuclear missile truck (really). When people arrive on my site, I need them to stick around, as I need to infect them with enthusiasm and emotion. Or else they will buy somewhere else, somewhere more professional. So… I make the site really rewarding. I don’t want to list the stuff on there, but for example I post 10 free lunches a day (dry noodles), plus I have had over 130,000 views of my viral, funny youTube vids. I have to be different, so I am. Some people stay for hours. Live chat. Webcams. Accurate info, loads of entertainment, much mockery. “I cannot do miracles, I am Chinese not Catholic”.

I cannot earn money being “professional” in the trad way, so I just provide the best service and publish over 700 customer letters. Fun sells, sex sells, emotion sells. These are all things cars have, so I use them. Professionalism rarely sells (maybe doctors and lawyers excepted). I don’t analyse my results as well as I could, I just count the UKP’s.

I do have the most environmental info, all the NCAP crash tests, all the car cc’s, worthy stuff like that.

The UK motor trade, in general, hate me for doing it like this. Mazda blacklist me, BMW complain I distress their “brand”, a finance company banned me for saying their service was “poor”. However, they can’t ignore me. I want to be the car customer’s champion.

Hope this helps, if not, take a big aspirin . Sorry about the migraine my site can induce.

The only acceptable use of the blink-tag is:
Schrodinger’s cat is not dead.

I have to agree with Ling. What’s up front is what counts in the internet web business game. Lets face it, you only have approximately 30 seconds to convince a possible customer to your site that they need to stick around and look at what you have to offer. The best way to do that is to stick the product right in there face along with the price and more than likely they will buy it or leave it. Unfortunately with my site Best Jewelry Boutique I couldn’t get to a “one click sell” which is what you really want to achieve on any e commerce web site.

i think i’m going to be sick… o_0

What I noticed about Ling’s site, is it’s colourful, not the boring run of the mill, like the corporates sometimes have.

Thing is, corporates try to be ‘the professional’ - the ego gets the better of them and so they must display their expertise. The mind set is that a bunch of exams means they are better than the rest out there, well, Ling has 2 degrees, yet her site speaks more and does more for her than her qualifications ever could.

My argument is I couldn’t care less what someone’s exam results are. But can they do the job better…. It’s rare that a website ‘protects’ people, and that’s what people need.

PS — I have no connection with LingsCars.com

ha ha..
00.com a great domain name with such a cheap design.

Atleast now they have changed it!

As it happens, I used to lecture on Graphic Design on a degree course. It’s a highly subjective business. There are no hard and fast rules. Uncluttered swiss railway signage is not necessarily ‘better’ than the front page of ‘The Sun’. It’s a question of taste, appropriateness for function and what works.

Lingscars.com is a brilliantly successful website around which Ling is building an extremely valuable business. It is highly distinctive, memorable and effective. It is beating the pants of its sparser, more restrained (and more boring) competitors’ sites every day. Her level of virtually viral site traffic is truly phenomenal. She is neither stupid nor ill-informed. The site became chaotic due to market forces and commercial evolution, like ‘The Sun’.

The deliberate cluttered ‘look’ is it’s unique point of difference.

Arty, spacious, stereotypically precious typography has got nothing to bring to the party!

Even without a Wordpress/Blogger theme I can design a better looking site than these!

I can do it in Frontpage better than these!

The jesus one, shut down my mozilla. Otherwise it was very funny. I think our agency should take some tips, they are soooo damn colourful.

Thanks for sharing

Even using both sides of my brain I couldn’t process all the information on Lings site.
Tables and tables and tables and also some tables and not a summary, caption, colgroup or table header in sight.
I’d like to watch the reaction of a blind person listening to Lings site being read.
Guess blind people don’t drive cars then…
See, in everything there are little blessings.

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I hope you didn’t just stumble upon these sites hay what you gonnna do if they make money great for them

I just through up a little in my mouth.

OH man I wish I can have a site with that kind of STYLE. SEO it and promote my product successfully with this crappy funky look. lol

Amazing…now i’ll sleep better.

Those sites should get a web designer,am glad i didn’t stumble on any of them.First impression matters alot especially in online adverts.Thanks for showing us these sites.

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These are the people that usually get more work than the pros. This is the case in my area, it is obvious these sites are poorly designed.

People will pay for a cheap website likes those above shown, just to save money. But later on these are the same people that are complaining that may site is not getting any visitors or traffic.