The 5 Worst Website Designs in the World
We often read and write articles showcasing the latest, best and most visually inspiring websites on the internet but we tend to forget those on the opposite end of the scale. In order to spread the love to the aesthetically unfortunate, here is an overview of five of the most terrible website design crimes on the net as discovered through the list of least victorious sites on CommandShift3.
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i can’t help but giggle like a school girl when i see these designs. TAKE ME BACK TO THE 80′s, Please!
oh my god it really strains eyes. Ive never seen such a worst designs in my life
can’t those folks at least get templates?
Wwwwow… http://webtekrocks.com/ – the client list is… I’m lost for words.
The sites above are just gruesome.
Sorry to make a double post, but I just thought we all could benefit from this:
http://webtekrocks.com/designtips.html
Remember! “Make sure to use color combinations that work.”
:)
I actually like them, this is inspiring, thanks.
Wow, these websites are awful. If you guys want to see more bad examples, follow this link.
http://websitesthatsuck.com/
For the love of god! There should be a public health warning for these sites, especially the dokimos one which should carry an epilepsy health warning! Crikey there is hope for me :)
@chris -
!! http://www.cyberdsignclan.com is better than I thought possible
Pure Filth.
These are the best websites i have ever seen! You have no taste!!! :D
oh god damn!
OMG Worst websites EVER!!!
It makes me wonder if the designers managed to graduate from school or play school even especially on the last one.
P.S. Jano, you have no taste judging by your MySpace styling.
Hehehe these are amazing! I mean, did you see how much info they could fit on one page!
Although you have to give it to the last rainbow oriatated site, they have a pretty clever little bar that comes down at the top like a firefox warning saying something about securing your faith. That was kinda cool!
I almost had a seizure.
But I did acquire a headache…
So good, it hurts.
joe maxo,si aki son tos guirufos!!!
Scary!
Here’s another! I believe this one wins the thread:
http://www.yyyyyyy.info/
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Ok these are really, really bad. My word my eyes are hurting just from glancing through them. Do people actually allow such rubbish on the web? Sheesh!
You totally forgot all kinds of frameset websites! lol
Oh dear!
damn, fortunately my first homepage did not include in the list, hahahaha lol.
Reminds me of my old time :D
hue… he… hee…
it’s so old time and bad template…
he…
its a fantastic reference of what NOT to do ever
Wow… these are so bad (especially havenworks), I’m tempted to contact their owners to give them some pointers. But that would be near impossible seeing as I can’t possibly find the page that holds their contact info. :P
Ronoslund only gets better when you click the links. I was drawn to the chain link looking image on the page, and what do you know? That page has the WHOLE BACKGROUND covered with that horribly busy design. And the stray pixels on all the logos add a nice Windows 3.1 touch to it.
And I’ve seen the last one somehow. One of my friends linked me to it, and I felt dizzy after I stared at it too long.
Hi, This is nineteen ninety seven, I’d like my webdesigns back please?
havenworks….Honestly though it does look like someone vomited onto paper, then turned it into html.
timecube.com
thank you…
http://wtap.com
that’s the local news website. . last time i went to it, it looked like the internet just threw up on it. . and then turned around and took a dump on it.
I just noticed this part of Havenworks (at the bottom).
“Support your local library. ;-)
!-! Nominated for Most Poorly Designed Website in the World by Digg.com
and “El peor diseño del mundo” by elMundo.es
Website Web Design: Web Design by Hermit ;-)”
1. I’m now convinced to support my local library. I don’t want kids in my area to end up being too stupid to figure out how to make a decent webpage. The person who made this was lucky that his inbred cousin Cletus got one of them “computer machines” and gave him a few pointers.
2. It’s sad how they seem to be bragging about their horrible website. Why would anyone want to go to a site that was designed in a way that it didn’t care about how difficult it is to navigate? It’s an insult to the site’s users, and I sure see no reason to put up with that.
3. Someone’s signing up for hate mail. If you click the “web design” link, it leads you to a page with more horrible websites probably designed by this “hermit” guy. Clicking his name leads to a page slightly better designed than the main one; they could’ve at least made the main page that bad.
thank you….
Rofl at the “poetry” in webtekrocks.com I love the part where he calls himself “..the grass you have penetrated with your javelin…” And the ego they have of their design skills is priceless.
Several of these sites were so bad ( see: http://www.yyyyyyy.info/ ) that my browser froze for several seconds while trying to load them.
Got to have the bad (er-very)in order to appreciate the good. Reading some of the replies I must say I haven’t laughed so much in ages, a very good post.
thank you…
You forgot to add Jacob Nielson’s http://www.useit.com for #6!
I am a web designer and Interactive Media Designer at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, one of my professors used your site to show what a good site looks like. One site I might add to the worst website designs in the world is http://www.gamequarium.com/ and Phil I do agree http://www.yyyyyyy.info/ is possibly the worst I have ever seen.
it’s can’t be.
I would hate to be the designer of that site, leaving a comment on this forum – “hey, that’s my site – d’ya like it?…no?”
Interesting design ! =)
I can’t decide which is worst, maybe the final (rainbow) one. Infact, they’re just as bad as each other.
Sites that came in mid 90′s are all look like these. Everyone is still in learning curve of HTML …..and web design/style is not even introduced yet. I bet there are still thousands of them lying around in the interwebs. Probably abandoned by the creator.
thank you…
“Jason Says:
July 10th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
You forgot to add Jacob Nielson’s http://www.useit.com for #6!”
Um, Jakob Nielsen is one of the industry’s leading usability experts. He doesn’t use flashy images (or any at all for that matter), Flash, or Photoshopped graphics and backgrounds. Just simple and straight-forward HTML and CSS.
I think when you have the type of quotes about you from leading media outlets and when you have the type of knowledge and education Mr. Nielsen has, you can pretty much make your site look like you want to and the rest of us can deal with it.
http://www.useit.com/jakob/
If you can do better than that Jason, by all means, post your qualifications and portfolio for everyone to see.
Oh, wait… you didn’t provide a link.
Wow. That last one proves exactly why churches why churches are emptying across the Western world
OMG! I could barely look at the sites you’ve presented…
Oh my god! forgive us! :) One of this awful sites offers me use ie for better view but i dont like any better view rest from you :)
Thank you for sharing….
Thank you for sharing…
Design?? Where?