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the bad website

Now I would like to share about a really bad website that I came across. The site is http://www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/ . the home page is as follow.



The first thing I felt when I saw this website is that I don’t know where to look and focus, there are so many things going on. For example, the big headlines, the very striking background color, the messy contents. Now I would proceed to comment on each part of the site.

lack of information

this website has only one page excluding the hyperlinks. websites usually have alot more pages within it's site but for this there is only one so i am sure there will be a lack of information. i think all users like websites to be informative but this website have fail to do that.

animated main title

Firstly, the head title of ‘world’s worst website’ kept moving from left to right then back again. The web designer must have put on some effects, maybe using flash or others but the moving of the title truly annoys me and very likely everyone else. I think some users will close the site really quickly.

the two screenshots shows the different location of the main title

no menu bar

Next, there isn’t a menu bar which is so inconvenient for users to navigate in the site and it is so rare in a bad sense that a website doesn’t have a menu bar. The users will have problems trying to navigate and back track their steps when needed to. Instead of having the menu bar, the upper part of the web page was occupied by some advertisement. Users are never keen to see advertisements or pop-ups in a website and this website had chosen to put advertisement right at the middle of the webpage which usually is where users first look at.

all the titles.

I do not like it that there are so many titles. First there is the ‘the world’s worst website’ which I guess is the main title. After that, as if the animated main title isn’t irritating enough there is also another animated sub title says ‘welcome to my website’ and another stationary title ‘welcome to the world’s worst website’. A title is to tell people a message, I don’t think there is need to have 3 titles telling a welcome message. It is very repetitive and annoying.

purpose

websites usually have their purpose written under a webpage maybe under 'about us' and they are written very professionally. however , this website wrote their purpose with one sentence which is right below '' welcome to the world's worst website.'' it really shows the users how much effort was putin into this website.

the other thing is that without any title or whatsoever, they just throw in their one line of purpose in the middle of the main body. users will find it weird why there is this one piece of information that doesn't seems to belong anywhere appear in the middle of the webpage which is where people first look at. it will create a total confusion and when thet finally realize it's nothing important, they will find their website very unprofessional.that was exactly how i felt.

background

Then, there is the absolutely awful background which is a mixture of yellow, dull red and muddy brownish color that has plenty of dots. The combination of all does not create a very good outcome. The contrast among all is awful. It is like all 3 colors are fighting to stand out unlike the black background that Singapore art festivals used throughout that is comfortable to look at. This website’s makes my eyes strain when I look at it for a long time and I’m sure it will affects people in that way too.

column on the left

The column to the left is not very well placed. It gives me a feeling that it’s not linked to website. Users may ignore that part. The layout of the page is not good. If that information is linked which it is, it should be placed somewhere else. i feel that it's because of the scroll bar that makes it feels isolated from the main body. another thing about it is that the information is very unorganize even in this small column.

background music

this is absolutely the worst background music that i've heard from a website. the worst thing is, it is so poorly designed that it can't allow the user to off the music. usually, websites that has background music will have a '' on/off'' for users to choose. however, there isn't any of that in this website. it comes down to muting it or listening it and i chose to mute it. i thought it will be alright but then when i wanted to listen to my songs, i can't! i will have to unmute it which means the background music will be heard. for anyone who chose to mute it or listen to it, if they are in my situation, they can't hear their songs or other audio without having the background music playing along. sadly speaking, the background music goes on endlessly unless you close the window which is what i did in order to hear my songs. this just brings great inconvenience to the users and annoyance.

for this, you have to go to website itself to experience it.