Terrible Websites

[LordTofuDog-jnr]

What are the worst websites you've seen, be it from content or design? I know there are plenty out there so insult away.

www.anarchistvampire.com - Hatchet Rydaz, it be teh funnyxors.

[Pauli]

I wonder how long this threat will be......
Hehehehe.
It'll sure be totally endless.......
Won't add one yet, but'll surely find some......Have some in mind.... (back to work now...)

[Maeve_Mari]

(back to work now...)

Do you work a night shift job? On my calendar it's daytime here and night over there in Switzerland!

Just curious - not an inquisition or anything!

[Epee_Pox]

I can't stand the ones that are nothing but dense text, like anyone has the time or inclination to read through all that. For some reason, people who make pages like that tend to also use dark or heavily-textured backgrounds, making the text even more unreadable.

Of all the news websites I read, Fox has the worst. Just a pain to navigate, too many frames, too densely designed, and almost every paragraph has hyperlinks added in the middle instead of just hyperlinking the keywords themselves.

I'm getting tired of sites with flash intros or pre-ads as well. Just direct me to the content, please.

[Zilverzmurfen]

Do you work a night shift job? On my calendar it's daytime here and night over there in Switzerland!

Just curious - not an inquisition or anything!

I think your calendar need to be replaced, Mari.

Pauli wrote her posting at 13.33, which would be 1.33 PM for those of you who live only 12 hrs/day...

For those of us who live in the CET time zone it's now late afternoon.

[AndrewH]

We're beyond the age where you can throw together some HTML code and it'll be considered "quality". However, some people take that way overboard and rely entirely on flash. Flash is a nice touch for menus and stuff, but making me sit there while the entire site loads is a pain. Plus those flash intros, I'm in the habit of automatically clicking "skip".

That being said, content does go a long way. Maddox's site (maddox.xmission.com) recieves around 100 hits a minute, but is constructed out of nothing but basic HTML.

Actually content goes pretty much all the way. The interface should be desinged to be as intuitive and unobtrusive as possible. There's nothing worse than a site with no purpose whatsoever ("hey guys, welcome to my cool site! here are some links!") or a site that has the potential to be popular, but is too laden down with fancy interfaces that take forever to load (liquid generation comes to mind).

Unless you're talking about the other kind of terrible, in which case I could link quite a few sites that Craig would quickly ban me for

[Pauli]

Do you work a night shift job? On my calendar it's daytime here and night over there in Switzerland!

Just curious - not an inquisition or anything!

Thank you Zmurf....
But Maeve, it indeed sometimes DOES happen that I work night shift times.
I'm in the same time zone as Zmurf though.

[noodle]

a classic:

http://www.xsunderground.com/thechilde/

don't click the link at the bottom of the page, though. nothing of any note and potentially offensive and/or not safe for work. the link above, though, is good.

[Zilverzmurfen]

Does anyone remember this one?


(And I had to Google it - honest!!! )

[Pauli]

hahahahaa
reminds me of that guy Ali whatever his name from MTV or something immitates, absolutely hilarious!

[Zilverzmurfen]

I kiss you, I kiss you all!

[Pauli]

didn't Michael Jackson say something similar????
"I love you, I love you all!!!!"
*holding his child out of the window*
-> the flag of life guys!

[Zilverzmurfen]

didn't Michael Jackson say something similar????
"I love you, I love you all!!!!"
*holding his child out of the window*
-> the flag of life guys!

Uuuh, that just made me delete it.

[noodle]

Does anyone remember this one?


(And I had to Google it - honest!!! )

http://www.ikissyou.org/

[Maeve_Mari]

I think your calendar need to be replaced, Mari.

Pauli wrote her posting at 13.33, which would be 1.33 PM for those of you who live only 12 hrs/day...

For those of us who live in the CET time zone it's now late afternoon.

Interesting... and it might not be my calendar but my concept of what time it is in Europe. Or a conspiracy by Craig to twist message posting so no one knows what time it is anywhere. whooooeeeeee

Here's what posted on my screen:

Today, 07:33 AM #2
Pauli
Senior Member

Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Switzerland
Journal Entries: 16
Posts: 487

I had her posting in at 7:30 in the morning - HERE - which I would have thought was getting into nighttime there. And thanks for the comments, but like I said, I didnt mean anything by it... it just struck me odd on this very slow workday for me!

[Zilverzmurfen]

it just struck me odd on this very slow workday for me!

Well I'm glad I could help livening it up a bit!

[LordTofuDog-jnr]

Don't know if it's still going, but ....

www.bloodybones.tk

[felicote]

www.illmitch.com

[lochinvar]

Frankly, the ones I think are the worst are those that start with telling you that you will see frequent updates of information you are interested in, but then never change their content.

These also usually have no update record so you don't know if they've ever been updated since being created.

Come to think of it, there are several fencing websites that come to mind, both club and Divisional/Sectional...

The trouble with the internet is that nothing is ever lost or forgotten; sites abandoned soon after they appear continue to show up long after their owners/creators lose interest. Until the domain registration runs out, they keep showing up--like an abandoned building where the timed lights keep cycling on and off because the electric bill has been paid a decade in advance.