20 Examples Of Bad Web Design

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20 Examples Of Bad Web Design

There is Yin and Yang, Black and White, Hot and Cold and unfortunately…Good Design and Bad Design. Since there must be a balance in the Universe, good design can`t exist alone. Below you can see 20 examples of very bad web design.

PS: I`m really sorry if you are a owner of some of these websites, but hey: consider this free advertising.

wateronwheels.com

gatesnfences.com

mrbottles.com

industrialpainter.com

as-grafixs.de

liceomilitar.edu.uy

citydeli.com

petersbuss.se

irishwrecksonline.net

ptbalirealestate.com

007museum.com

mamascheesies.com

rzent.co.nr

raft.org

arngren.net

rogerart.com

mickeythomas.com

joesplacepizzaandpasta.com

lingscars.com

yvettesbridalformal.com

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Bogdan

Bogdan is the founder of Top Design Magazine. You can find him in Bucharest-Romania so next time you want to drink a beer there and talk about web and stuff, give him a message.

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http://twitter.com/artatsnow michelle kuen fung
These sites look like they’re from the 90s.
Pepe
I miss the explanation about why this is bad web design

Anonymous
Do you need one? Did you hear about usablity, common sense, the 10 rules of web design…

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=661531795 Russell Saburuko
please include http://www.chipshopnyc.com in one of these lists
MattieF
Some of these just aren’t that bad – there are a few that, although they fall well short of “stand-out” designs and don’t align exactly with modern design customs, are perfectly usable and far from visually offensive.
http://rkovacevic.blogspot.com/ Robert Kovacevic
This brigs up a lot of geocities nostalgia :)
http://dmenounos.myopenid.com/ koumparos
I happen to like a some of them!
http://twitter.com/Jinxtastic Jessica Carey
What?!!???!? who do you think MAKES
http://twitter.com/LINGsCARS Ling Valentine
Bogdan, well… depends what you class as bad design.
My site is designed to make money, and last year I rented over £35 million of new cars in the UK at retail prices… that is an income in excess of $500,000 (from my “badly” designed website) … just so people in the USA get some idea of scale. To me, that means my website design is VERY successful. Not sure why it is “BAD”?
I prefer to measure good design in money terms rather than some spurious opinion. Who or what is “TopWebDesign Mag”? I can’t see any indication on this website of the company info, as I was going to check out your own design success. But, all the info seems hidden :(
Most designers have no cloe about how to make a website make money, they are often lost in their apple -mac world.
Ling
LINGsCARS

Alexandru
Hi Ling,
Don’t take it personally, design is design and how your website / business works is for me a different thing.
It’s Bogdan’s opinion and I’m sure that you understand very well that we don’t discuss tastes. I like it but Bogdan doesn’t like it. So what ? You can’t make all the people happy.
This website is TopDesignMag not how you name it and has succes, don’t worry for us.
I wish you the best and maybe in the future we will make business or at least help each other.
Best regards,
Alexandru

Ken Hurd
I actually think some of these pass in terms of good design which is not just the “aesthetic” but several things such as structure, hierarchy and communicating visually the intended message. While citydeli.com is not the most appealing design in terms of flair and Ps tricks, it does pass the test of communicating very well what the product is. The navigation is clear and you know immediately upon landing on the site what the biz is about. I think all of this speaks to “good design” even if it lacks in “eye candy”.
http://www.webbizideas.com/services/web-design/social-networking.html John Baldwin
I agree Michelle. These sites are forgetting the most important point of making a website – to provide information and service; not for pure advertisements and stuff. The design in these sites are totally too cluttered, flamboyant and.. well, retro. If you plan to keep a website, imitate those social network sites by always updating your web design to keep it modern. Make it look professional and try to arrange the whole outline. Finally, websites are all about providing info and services, not for totally, over-the-top advertisement!
http://www.stainofthought.com Robin Bastien
Most of these are legitimate, but it’s wrong to list a satirical piece like yvettesbridalformal.com as bad web design. Their goal is for a laugh at bad web design.
rossi rossi
i have a website for sites like those:
http://websitehazard.com
=)
rossi rossi
i have a website for sites like those:
http://websitehazard.com
=)
Wander
Joe’s Place is not that bad.
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Xolelani Mdima
These websites look like they have been dug up from time capsules from the eightys the layout is bad the color dont go together the technique in all is out of it, i just started desiging websites, Ive just graduated and i did a better job than this in few websites ive designed….damn
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http://www.aktivtek.no/ webdesign oslo
Haha, this is very funny. I was searching for some nice web design inspirations and then this pops up. Great collection and really useful. I see a lot of such websites in Norway. People think it’s enough to publish a bunch of text or pictures or both at the same time and that’s it. Thank You for this article – it makes me feel better st least.
http://twitter.com/VictorWebdesign Victor Bakker
Do you think those are bad? Check out my top 20: http://www.victorweblog.nl/20-slechtste-websites/#more-567
The blog is in dutch, but websites are 20 worst from all over the world.
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http://www.neo4evr.com/ Niladri
Some of them are not THAT bad. I have seen worse websites. Besides, during validation I find some having older language versions being used so considering that, I think they are O.K.
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I totally agree with you as a web designer..I also believe in the same.wonderful analysis of the matter, well done and thanks for sharing.
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I agree that those designs are really bad. I actually laugh at some designs like the first examples. It is like pasting pictures that they find on google.