What truly godawful websites have you found?

[Nordic]

I was just farting around and looking through this booklet of ads you can pick up here called something like "the whole earth catalog" (I think), and it's basically nothing but ads for things like, well, new age stuff. Tons of it. Stuff even RI'ers may never have heard of.

I saw an ad that read something like "Make six figures! Be a grief counselor!"

That seemed ludicrously ... well, just plain WRONG, so I had to check out the website.

And it's one of the most godawful websites ever. I mean Ed Wood bad.

http://www.griefcoachtraining.com/

Check out the youtube videos, and the bad hair on the "hostess", and the horrible camerawork.

Maybe I'm a little crazed because I slept maybe an hour last night (my son had a nightmare among other things) and I'm feeling kind of loopy but I realized there wasn't a place where you could just check out a compendium of these kinds of truly so-bad-they're-funny websites. Unless I'm missing something. Which I might be.

So there. You have the first one. "Make money exploiting people's grief!"

Wow.

[Luther Blissett]

http://teamassignment.com/

[Project Willow]

http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/worst-over-the-top-web-sites-of-2009.html#axzz0sS8mZGWm

http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/

[annie aronburg]

http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/

That one is a tribute to Geocities.

[norton ash]

Aw, c'mon, some of us like Dave's washed-out turquoise and purple. Most of my clothes are that colour, and I think I look very smart.

Thanks for the worst-sites site, Willow, it's quite mad, and Luther for teamassignment, and Nordic for starting this. I can't remember us doing this at RI before, it's fun.

[Simulist]

http://www.ap.org/

http://www.reuters.com/

http://www.usatoday.com/

http://www.npr.org/

http://www.gop.com/

http://www.democrats.org/

http://www.ronpaul.com/

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/

www.glennbeck.com/

http://www.infowars.com/

[Project Willow]

I offered Dave my web design services but I never did hear back from him.

That's a good list Simulist. Reuters tried the uber nav-block idea. I'd be interested in other people's take on it. Do you find it useful or obtrusive?

Content on that scale should always require the consult of an IA expert, but nobody ever wants to pay, even large companies. Those who aren't savvy from the start end up paying much more overtime with poor design

The $300 Million Dollar Button
http://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button/.

[Simulist]

That's a good list Simulist. Reuters tried the uber nav-block idea. I'd be interested in other people's take on it. Do you find it useful or obtrusive?

Well, I find it obtrusive — but I'll be honest: I'm biased against them (and not just a little), so pretty much anything they might do would probably be annoying to me.

(Note to self: buy more Vitamin B Complex.)

[Stephen Morgan]

http://www.timecube.com/

EARTH HAS 4 CORNER

SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY

TIME CUBE

IN ONLY 24 HOUR ROTATION.

4 CORNER DAYS, CUBES 4 QUAD EARTH- No 1 Day God.

******************

FREE SPEECH in AMERICA is

"BULL SHIT",

EVIL EDUCATORS

block and suppress

www.timecube.com.

You are educated evil,

and might have to kill

the evil ONE teaching

educators before you

can learn that 4 corner

days actually exist -but

all Cube Truth denied.

Dumb ass educators fear

me and hide from debate.

They are paid to teach a propaganda book - not

Cube Truth - for which

they would be fired. Evil

teachers betray students,

as ONE is a Death Value.

Cube 4x4 voids 1 & God.

USA ripe for holocaust.

Man evolves from teenager -

in cube metamorphosis

but ignores teenager to worship a male mother,

guised in woman's garb,

churchman called father.

Adult god is adult crime

upon their own children.

More holocaust deserved.

[stefano]

Timecube is amazing. Various Rapture websites have also struck me as truly godawful: Rapture Christ, Satan's Rapture, The Rapture 2010.

The home page of Peter Pan is godawful and at the same time quite sweet.

[Searcher08]

I offered Dave my web design services but I never did hear back from him.

That's a good list Simulist. Reuters tried the uber nav-block idea. I'd be interested in other people's take on it. Do you find it useful or obtrusive?

Content on that scale should always require the consult of an IA expert, but nobody ever wants to pay, even large companies. Those who aren't savvy from the start end up paying much more overtime with poor design

The $300 Million Dollar Button
http://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button/.

Thanks for that link, it is awesome! I did UX for a couple of years, in the four ring circus of strategy / tech / design / ux
For those who have not been involved in the wonderful world of website production, just multiply this interaction by 1000 and you will get the idea...

PROJECT MANAGER: OK Welcome to the kick-off meeting for the Plutocrat.com redesign
MBA Strategist: We need to synergise our paradigm to enable sticky eyeballs in a game changing site that will deliver measurable business benefits within a process life-cycle
<interrupts>
TECH: NONONO This is all about changing from an Adobe Flash to a HTML5 environment integrating LANS WANS and SANS under a SAP CRM using a HTTPS protocol with RUBY under SCRUM. Here is a mock-up we have done...
<interrupts>
DESIGNER: OH MY GAWD! You can-NOT mistreat my EYES with that shade of purple. Those graphics are so 2009!
How COULD you? <cries> I have a series of Banksy inspired layouts in the style of 15thCentury Japanese woodcuts...
<interrupts>
USER EXPERIENCE: Have we asked the client whether they know what the customers are doing at the site? We need a head-up display to measure eyeball tracking on the home page!
EVERYONE ELSE : SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!



IMHO the worst sites are those from the 'Top ' Ad agencies. http://www.ogilvy.com/

[Nordic]

IMHO the worst sites are those from the 'Top ' Ad agencies. http://www.ogilvy.com/

Wow, that really is a mess of a page!!

[Elvis]

http://www.hollywoodiscalling.com/

[Simulist]

http://www.hollywoodiscalling.com/

Wow. For only $300.00, I can be refused soup.

(Which is actually quite a bargain — during college, it cost me several thousand dollars a year to have Vera the Cafeteria Lady do that.)

[norton ash]

Thanks, Elvis, I just sent a cheer-up message to a friend who's blue with the link, saying I couldn't decide which messenger to choose.

Message: just be glad you're not one of these people.