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Fugly Friday: The World's Worst Website?
Unfortunately the stout folks at Guinness don't have a "World's Worst Website" category (best I could find was the worst mouse plague, which I assume happens frequently in schools). Fear not, as one intrepid designer has endeavored to show by way of example; I give you the "World's Worst Website," and oh boy, does it deliver.
Pretty much every web design sin in the book is covered, from hosting with Angelfire, to using frames, marquee text, blinking backgrounds, misspellings, links to dead-end pages and much, much more. Try turning your sound all the way up before visiting, then run.
This appears to be created by Michelle from Gold Nugget Webs, a site that isn't exactly fugly, but isn't going to win any awards, either. In fact, it appears Michelle has a thing for understated design, opting to choose aliased text, pixelated JPEG's and CAPS LOCK. To be fair, I get the feeling her clients aren't the most web-savvy or design-savvy bunch (do you know of an opal mine that Starck designed?), so what you see could be at the client's request. And I've certainly had the experience of a client demanding something that made you want to retch. Still, as a monument to fugliness, Michelle's "Worst Website" is easily in the top 10.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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KeegdnaB said 4:41PM on 3-20-2009
I saw the headline and thought it was gonna be a poll....and that there would be 300 replies saying 4chan
though to be honest...the "world's worst website" deosn't seem all that different
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ds said 4:44PM on 3-20-2009
This one's good from a technical standpoint, but it comes in second to one I found randomly a few months ago.
Sort of NSFW, poorly rendered GIFs ahoy!
http://www.ingenfeld.de/
Maybe there's a story behind this one, but I don't think there's any possible explanation. It's basically Homer Simpson's website, but less restrained.
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tingrin87 said 3:18AM on 3-22-2009
firefox kind of said NO to that one
cobak said 5:01PM on 3-20-2009
That looks way better than most myspace pages...
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hectorvs said 5:39PM on 3-20-2009
To be honest, one of the worst page designs must be http://www.frys.com/
It is SOOOO 1999, horrible search, horrible design... I don't know what they're waiting for to update their website with something more up to date.
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Steve G said 5:51PM on 3-20-2009
For some years, the home of truly bad websites has been
http://www.websitesthatsuck.com/
Their aim is for people to learn from seeing how NOT to do it and their are some truly dreadful examples.
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Steve G said 5:52PM on 3-20-2009
PS Sorry - should be 'there' not 'their'!
ih8myspace said 7:54PM on 3-25-2009
I've seen much worse than that, like the ingenfeld site for example. Although neither should count since they are both obviously INTENDED to be bad.
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gylu said 8:59PM on 3-20-2009
It may cover the sins but if you want to see them in action in the wild just look at any cat breading website.
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john said 5:32PM on 3-21-2009
Breaded cats? Well I guess that makes sense if you're going to deep fry them. I prefer mine sashimi style.
lenny said 4:55PM on 3-22-2009
While we're on the subject of annoying website "features": what I hate
are those AOL articles that grab you with a catchy headline, & then
make you click through anywhere from 5-20+ pages as they present the
article in dribs & drabs.
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Otafu said 4:28PM on 3-23-2009
The worst has to be www.misterglobo.com.ar
no kidding.
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Bird said 10:39PM on 4-23-2009
If we're talking Worst Website based on expectations, I'd give a nod to Adobe. Year after year, the company that holds the monopoly on print and website-building software has a slow, heavy and virtually useless website. I'm using a MAC PRO, a high-speed Tokyo cable connection and every other site is lightning fast, and right now, Adobe.com is timing-out on many pages, including their contact page.
I would understand if there were a momentary glitch, but this is Adobe, year after year after year...
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