During a research project we were investigating how certain websites displayed on different mobile phones. While compiling stats on whether older, arguably uglier sites performed better than newer CSS sites we ended up with a list of what our testers believed to be the worst looking web sites.
If your website is on this list please don’t be offended, although you may wish to consider a redesign.
Top of our list and probably the worst of the bunch is this UK marine insurance company. Not content with using yellow and pale green on the same page they have made the page refresh every single second just so you don’t miss it. Also check out the quality pages such as this one with more html errors (check the title tag) than you can count. Extra points granted due to the waste of a good domain name.
Its not really clear what (or who) Franz is but you won’t miss that “Home” button. The title is nice and descriptive as well.
MSY is an Australian technology company boasting “more than 10 years in the computer industry”. Unfortunately their definition of “computer industry” clearly doesn’t encompass web design as pages such as this one selling Flash memory and other assorted products demonstrates.
Seriously this is painful to watch. Would you hire VF Designer?
This online ministry website seems to think that making people blind will help spread the faith. They even helpfully provide a series of well designed banners for you to use when you link to them.
This image heavy Norwegian gadget site has more pictures than flickr and takes an age to load thanks to the html image resizing. It didn’t seem to render properly in any of my browsers.
Forgiving even the dodgy ads at the top of the page the Hotel Mance website made our list thanks to the fantastic map which the designers have helpfully annotated and scanned in.
Another site wasting a great domain name is 00.com which utilises the least user friendly Flash navigation system we have had the pleasure to use.
Web Wizz have been given the dubious honour of having designed two sites on the list. Lets hope www.posture.co.uk is suitably pleased with the design work. Helpfully Web Wizz will register a domain name for just £89.99 initially, plus £2 per month.
Aside from the dubious clip art we weren’t sure whether this site really merited inclusion on the list. However once we tested the “Experience an Earthquake” button it was a certainty. Why would you do that to your precious visitors?
Ling was featured recently on the BBC’s Dragons Den program and really tries hard to provide a personal touch to her car leasing website. Unfortunately this means ignoring a few of the user friendly features on more conventional sites. Just try navigating round a few pages and you will see that the mass of information at the top isn’t just on the homepage, its on all the pages.
Helpfully Ling has created a nice guide on how you should be building your site:
Most business make mistake of paying a company to build page, without learning. Learn! Modify, change. Don’t pay the idiots to do this, do it yourself. Treat webpage like business office or shop. If you want to move a desk in office you move it. Put calendar on wall, you put. Do the same on website. Do every day. So simple. All your customers can see this. They get “feeling” from it.
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4 comments on “Are these the 12 Ugliest Websites in the World”
Ling was on Dragons Den – I’m quite amazed by the level of trade done considering how bad the website – but something must be working!
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Hey!
My website works just fine. I think people who find it ugly have some problem with their brains. LINGsCARS contains lots of charming small gifs and interesting pics, like my nuclear missile truck. How can that be called ugly? Level of trade is well >£1/4m a year ex VAT.
hehe.. thats really a great collection buddy.
Hope that my sites never will qualify in these kind of lists…hehe