Top 10 Worst Websites You'll Wish You Hadn't Seen

Do you ever open up a really badly designed website and wish you hadn’t? I’ve had the misfortune to visit a few shocking sites recently and here is a list of the very worst. If you are a designer feel free to send them an email offering your services.

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 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.

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 Â£89.99 initially, plus Â£2 per month.

Ling’s Cars 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.

BY Patrick Altoft AT 10:46am ON Wednesday, 31 October 2007

Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Branded3 and has worked in the SEO industry for over 10 years. With experience across some of the worlds largest brands as well as startup businesses Patrick is well known in the industry and speaks regularly at the major SEO conferences and events. Follow Patrick on Twitter or Google+

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djnforce9

I’m surprised http://www.cwol.com wasn’t mentioned. It’s an e-commerce site with everything all blended onto one big ugly (primarily red, yellow, and white) page.
http://blogikal.wordpress.com drew

Awesome. Love the “accept jesus” one with the rainbow background.
Tim Hawkins

Isn’t Ling a client of yours??? Not sure why then your pointing it out as one of the worst websites you’ve ever seen???
http://www.blogstorm.co.uk Patrick Altoft

Tim you raise a good point – she wasn’t a client until she read this post and then she emailed and we got talking. :)
P.Burton

Hah, very funny. Check out: http://www.pinkcad.com for another one
Brian S.

I have seen some horrible websites in the past but I have to admit this guy WEB KING takes the cake! I have never in my life seen such a poor excuse for web design. And he calls himself a WEB DESIGNER!! Take a look at HIS site and then check out some of his CLIENT SITES!! You can bill WEB KING for the Pepto-Bismol! UN FREAKING BELIEVABLE!

http://www.webking.com/computer-services/index.html
Jerkin’ me beanstalk

P. Burton -

Did you notice these “Neon Dork” leggings?

http://www.pinkcad.com/html/leggings_pink.html
http://sowr Pic

Why people are still paying to host such websites? One of the mentioned site is offering site design and have whole load of explanation about websites, it has hint there the website was there at around 1998. Gosh..
http://www.FreeWorkAtHomeReview.com Jason

They look like a 3rd grader made them.
fhaye

she sure was mad to be on that list. but if the site got a lot of traffic, then why dont hire a professional web designer? who knows that might also increase more traffic.
http://www.internetbusinesspath.com Ecommerce Help – Tyrone Shum

Okay, that was, well, somewhat enlightening. Enlightening in a way that as an online marketer, it made me really realize the importance of desogn whenever you are creating a site since this will serve as your clients’ first impression about it. However, putting too much color or pictures to the point that it already looks like a collage makes it a bit unprofessional and a sure way to ward of readers. Sometimes, if we want to get intact with our creative side, we should make sure that we are utterly balanced with everything else.
Joseph Mwanhaqualugai

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
I Had Nightmares About Those Ones!
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http://initforthekills.typepad.com Erin

Ling’s is the best website ever! The way she climbs down off of the blue crayon smiley and then just stands there with her hands in her pockets will haunt my dreams. It’s like a tiny grown up Samara Morgan.
http://www.ovcharski.com Nikola Ovcharski

My eyes… Nooo
http://allstarz halima nd’ amina

some on please call the ambulous! i think i’m going to pass out !!!!!!!
thank god i’m not on there!!! wwh…
mIKE83

Ive made far worse back in my AOL new to PC days. Luckily for me I had a brother whos a master of computers and programming. Not that I am now, im just not as bad as I was.
Paul

Some haven’t heard about not using scrolling text:

http://www.westkilbridevillagehall.com/
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Aj

this one give it a look

http://www.yousef.com
http://www.takefreeonlinesurveysformoney.com/ Paid Survey Sites

I don’t understand why people do this. If your website is going to look tacky, cluttered, and unorganized, then what’s the point of even having one.
ranyah

wtf??? these websites suck. get a life! they’re pain the eyes!
canethrasher

The worst I’ve come across, this is one is actually kind of cool in the way it almost celebrates its atrociousness:

http://www.rivercountry.net/august/index.html
Rambo

Heres another one for you: http://www.davesworlduk.com/

This guy actually offers website design! CRIMINAL!
jake

u focking idiots
http://www.davesworlduk.com dheminsley

In reference to rambo’s post if you post anything like that on another messageboard again I will find out who you are and where you are and sue your little backside for defermation of character
RadioGaGa

@DH

obviously your site!

That is SHIT buddy.

Anyone who uses your services is fucking MAD!

You should be in jail!
http://www.davesworlduk.com dheminsley

Well you would say that wouldnt ya, Jealousy eats you up my friend
Clayton Y Thornton

And I thought mine was bad……..www.uswebworx.com
Rambo

Miss that post Dave — we’ve decided to make it a mission of ours to pass on your excellent work and blog about it!

You should be pleased!
HelenPR

Ling you may be a web-designers nightmare but you’re a PR person’s dream! Keep up with the self-promotion and you can’t fail.

Best wishes

Helen
Eko Widodo

Please check this following url http://leleonday.blogspot.com/
http://www.leasebam.co.uk Leasebam

I had visited Lings website about 3 times before I got it. At first it was like an awful record that did not make sense, but after a while it grew on me and now I think it is sopt on. I can’t help thinking there are some serious business owners who keep away though.
steve

just to add to the list of bad sites, have a look at this website http://www.starydreamer.co.uk
Lol Duck

The Church one is crazy. I cannot believe they allowed that on the web. It’s all lie’s. Wow. That’s really sad. =/
Lol Duck

omg. that one’s terrible. :O
http://chellecordero.com Chelle Cordero

Oh my…
jake

suck my dick dheminsley faget
Gromit

DavesWorldUK may have changed, but it is still crap and offers full website design for poor buggers who take his offer up. Still, he has no portfolio examples, so here’s hoping no-one has.

His website is designed in FrontPage, and he offers logo design for Â£75 when he has clearly downloaded a rotating .gif from some free crappy gif website!

Man this guy is off his head.
http://www.sitefixers.ca John

That “Accept Jesus, Forever Forgiven” website is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. Too bad the developer didn’t intend for it to be a joke. The funniest thing of all is that that piece of crap has a PR of 5 and has thousands of sites linking to it. If only my website could do that well. Hmm, maybe I should add that scrolling rainbow effect to my site. Hmm…
Christine

you think you’ve seen the worst? check this out:
http://www.themostamazingwebsiteontheinternet.com/
loyalty

you have to see this one!

http://yvettesbridalformal.com/
http://johnseb.co.uk Johnny B

No nav, just everything on 1 page

http://www.aspartamekills.com/
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2472194/films_five_best_sci_fi_characters.html jlawac

I agree completely with myspace as number one, the site is hard enough to navigate without the random spikes of blaring music and flood of high resolution pictures.
http://www.veraland.ro/ Vera from Bucharest

here is a grotesque site of an angelically brilliant band: KEANE:
http://www.keanemusic.com/

what happened with the previous design which was quite nice? I have no clue.
But this new version is a disaster, talking also into account the quality of the band and hence the discrepancy between that loose design and their divine music.
Smeghead

Have a look at http://www.britainsworstwebsite.com
tim franklin

looks like there are a lot of jealous people /salespeople mad at ling
[OvO]wl

Fuck me. I’ll have nightmares now for weeks.
http://www.ipixel.dk ipixel

My alltime favorite http://www.useit.com/
The guy all webdesigners LOVE to hate, but should partly listen to.
http://www.lingscars.com Ling Valentine

This thread just refuses to die!!

Two and a half years on from the blog post…

Following advice from Patrick in 08 and last year, I incorporated some tabs and better navigation. I’ve done lots more work, and menus, but increased the “flashing gif rate”, too. Added loads more fun stuff.

My monthly visits have now rocketed to well over 100,000 per month (more than doubled) and the predicted Â£25 million of cars in 2008 (see early replies) jumped to over Â£35 million!

I have been selected as the NatWest/BT Business woman of the year in 2009 in the EveryWoman Awards, for IT and Communications. Presented by the Prime Minister’s wife at the Dorchester.

I have won many other awards, notably the Worst Business Website of 2009 by Vincent Flander’s Web Pages That Suck. I am particularly proud of that award. What does he know? Look at HIS website! hahaha!

Web Designer magazine had to do a Humble Pie Eating news item this month when one month after proclaiming me the WORST site, they noticed my NatWest/BT Award and made a massive retraction and apology in the next issue. Hahahaha (again!).

Computer Shopper (Zygote) said: “The leading evangelist of treating website customers with intelligence and collaboration is Ling Valentine”, and Retail Week sandwiched me between Apple (really!), Amazon, eBay and Ikea as one of “50 Retail Websites you have to Visit”. Respect!

I now publish 1,500 customer letters, fully attributed (and now paginated to 56 pages, that’s a whole ream of A4 paper if you print it out).

So, thanks to people who “gettit” and BRING IT ON to those myopic nits who just can’t see why people l-i-k-e my website.

It is certainly not rocket science, it is human interaction (see my LIVE visitor sitemap – unique in the World), but it seems there are too many Rocket Scientists reading this blog. Easy answer: Make stuff colourful and flashing!

Ling
LINGsCARS
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http://jamiemilk@gmail.com straightryder

Seriously, i’ve created better things in the bottom of my toilet after eating nachos with extra salsa.

BUT THIS WAS — the best post ever.
http://www.ksmpropertymaintenance.co.uk ken

Here is another giant pile of crap WKC Wales, I think the home page says it all . Its currently number 1 on http://www.britainsworstwebsite.com
tom

ling, stop trying to trick everyone here into thinking you have a good website, its ugly and tacky and appeals to the nations unintelligent
[OvO]wl

Stop acting like a ginger Tom.
http://www.oc-swimwear.co.uk Oli

That first one reminds me of a 1980s computer game! Hehe.. I know a worse one though. Check out the site that the company I’ve just started working for was using (www.uk-parts.net) – so bad! I’ve already got a better one online at http://www.uk-parts.eu which will replace it soon….. but still the boss keeps ‘steering’ me towards making a poo one again!
http://sawmaster2.no-ip.org:82/ Ben Baptist

You need to see http://www.fudgeirc.com/

HORRIBLE
http://argren Josh

OMG crowded or what at least u can buy lots of stuff on it so you decide
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Awful :D
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http://www.freewebs.com/tehmasterer/ Jules

Heh heh some of them are even worse than my original website…
http://blog-studenta.ru/ Poor Student

Oh nO! where is my eyes?)) i look through this sites and lose my eyes)) help me!!!

LOL xDDD
http://www.rocknroadmusictransport.co.uk Dave ‘tha’ Slave

Hi all, I must be the least creative person I’ve ever met and even I cannot find words to describe some of these sites. Have a shuffty at this one
http://www.drivingyoucrazy.com/ (went all wobbly when this popped up!)its a prime example of why people like me should let those who know what their doing, do it!.
RaulJones

Ling website still up. Big wonder in brain…why sucky site not pulled as a public health menace? Customer letters mean caca. Get neighbor kids much candy for make fake letters. Ream of paper probably found at goodwill. Website bad enough to cause cancer.
call me Roy

The website “Funny or Die” changed my information after I registered with it. I noticed the change and contacted them asking what had happened? They emailed back saying “Yea, we changed something, we thought it would be funny. I am now checking if they broke any laws. What a bunch of pudknockers.
MariAlice

you forgot iscribble.net :) worst website ever bunch of dipshits with no life :)
Jason

Another one for you -
http://www.eliteinstallations.co.uk/
http://www.llanelliplumbingservice.co.uk ken

These just get worse
http://www.llanelliplumbingservice.co.uk ken

just take a look at this pile of crap

http://www.bathroom-fitters-wales.co.uk
http://www.2jdesign.co.uk Ecommerce web design

Some classic websites there even our first sites launched 10 years ago when I was at school don’t match
Nicchan

Thank you for posting this, really help for my assignment reference^^

Btw, where’s the link to the original site for the very first web shown on this post?? The insurance’s page has changed & I can said it’s going better
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http://www.casinocatwalk.com bambam

…my first web page ever …looked like that..lol!
…mmm…maybe not…
http://www.pixelgroup.co.uk Cherie

Agree – they are all pretty bad however they are not exactly commercial brands are they? so I guess they can afford to be bad, cheap and nasty. Their best bet would be for students at College or University to contact them and perhaps do some work for them? Other than that I really do not think they are going to damage anyones lives … perhaps eyes.
http://www.videocharacter.com Video Character

I have to agree that these are sites that need an extreme makeover haha. If they were a real company they can hire a designer, do offshoring, it’s cheaper. Maybe they should consider making their sites simpler to make it clean.
helenmiles

http://www.yvettesbridalformal.com/

go on…try and make sense of it….
http://www.fahmid.com Fahmid

shuuuu….now i fell like my website isn't the worst….
janni

WOW they were bad
rambo

LOL Fantastic – Bus in a lake!
http://www.searchoptimist.co.uk Marvin Telona

Wow, these are indeed terrible!
In UK, if you type car leasing, you can find a VERY BAD site on the first page of Google that seems to be selling like crazy.
That's insane how sometimes totaly confusion can work on conversions.
carleasingmadesimpleuk

This is a great list!!! Kudos to the people that compiled it. They should learn from good websites like http://carleasingmadesimple.com when designing website for commercial and business purposes.
Rob

haha i remmeber the crazy owner of lingcars coming on the english version of dragons den, haha comical
http://www.avmmobilemoney.info/ Jack

http://www.avmmobilemoney.info/index.html worst site i ever seen
Johnny B

@Jack
Terrible – the link to the designer’s site is broken! It’s not much better http://www.esoftwarepark.com/
Thomas

I have a winner, or loser, depending on your view just one look at the site and you will see why. The funny part is if you can find their link to the guest book and actually read some of, it several people say they like the “”artist look of the website.

http://yvettesbridalformal.com/
shawn

another horrible site:
https://www.tocynbro.com/
Alex

These websites are very crap. Lingscars has improved overtime and some of the websites people recommended aren’t that bad either. Thebestwebsiteever is just an insult to its’ name. The pictures are squashed, there are enough gifs to give you a seizure and the owner appears to be a 17 year old chav who’ll most likely join the army due to the huge amount of tanks and guns on the page. He says something like ISY’s project 202 meaning it was a school project or something. If he won then the teacher or whatever must have been his parents or a crap web designer. and dheminsley SHUT THE FUCK UP. Your website is shit so just admit it. I designed a better looking website than you when i was in year 5 just aged 10. Rambo and RadioGaGa are right. YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY FROM THE EXTRA VIEWS YOUR WEBSITE IS GETTING.
brandon rigger

have a look at this site : i think this is personally the worst site in the world, if u agree with me, message me on brrigger@gmail.com

this it the website: http://www.havenworks.com
may take a while to load
ekushay

People should learn to respect the fact that somebody had taken the time to construct these “terrible” websites.

However horrible they are, it was made by somebody – and that somebody, like all humans do, has this thing called feelings.

Well done guys! You’ve just 1-upped yourselves while cyber-slapping someone across the face. Keep trashing!
Johnny B

Part of the point of this thread is to improve web standards. Some companies are just lazy when it comes to setting up websites. A website is like your shop window, so if it looks rubbish, why should anyone do business with you?
As Ling Cars has demonstrated, you can learn it yourself and actually her current site although rather busy, is a lot better and does the job.
There’s no excuse for being lazy.
Also, I would imagine many of these sites have been constructed with poor software.
James

Ling’s website is a work of genius. Sure, at first glance it looks like a genuinely bad website circa 1996, but it’s so chock full of charm, warmth and humor that you quickly get sucked in and all of a sudden it doesn’t seem so chaotic, it just seems like a very entertaining site that’s full of personality and information.

I’m a website design snob. I look at sites and think “that’s so last year.” But Ling’s website is one of my favorites for sure. She seems like a really great woman to do business with and business is obviously in her blood. I’m not surprised the site has been so successful for her, it’s a work of art. I can stay on there for hours.
http://wing-tsun.ru/ Master

He he, it’s awful :)
http://www.marsitservices.com mahendra

I agree completely with my space as number one, the site is hard enough to navigate without the random spikes of blaring music and flood of high resolution pictures.
http://www.jackswinewarehouse.com/ jacks wine warehouse really sucks

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http://www.kokturk.net Babürhan Köktürk

Thanks, good post.
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http://www.springerwebsitedesign.co.uk Mike

I agree regarding all the website designs shown above are pretty poor designs, however I don’t agree with lings site, I think she is a very clever at marketing and getting noticed and I think she has created a site exactly to her requirement maybe it isn’t the best looking site in the world, but it fits her purpose and from what I hear is getting her sales.

It will be interesting what effect Google Instant Preview has on designs, and the amount of people who choose to look at their design again.

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