Any webpages you visit that you think are poorly designed?

[xaeniac]

Please list away. I will start.

craigslist does not meet my expectations

 

[gorcorps]

Craigslist is pretty okay by me for what it needs to do.

 

[Twista]

craigslist is fine. Its nice and simple. Sometimes simple = better.
Bloated=crap

 

[DrVos]

www.mrlandlord.com

ugh.

 

[xaeniac]

ok first responders give me a site instead of bashing that's fine

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

forums.anandtech.com

 

[Firebot]

Originally posted by: DrVos
www.mrlandlord.com

ugh.

Good god I hope you don't have to go there often.

 

[xanis]

Originally posted by: Firebot

Originally posted by: DrVos
www.mrlandlord.com

ugh.

Good god I hope you don't have to go there often.

For real. That website is HORRIFYING.

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: xaeniac
ok first responders give me a site instead of bashing that's fine

it's ATOT, love it or leave it

 

[xeemzor]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
forums.anandtech.com

bing.com

 

[TridenT]

http://refdesk.com/

I actually only saw this during a presentation on the website... I think it's poorly designed.

 

[imported_Imp]

Anything with flash, so a bunch of music/band sites. Flash is great for ass-kissing your first time through, but when you actually want info, it's annoying.

 

[Bateluer]

Any site that's written entirely in Flash, Shockwave, Silverlight, or some other crap. I have yet to see a site written with those languages that's actually good. Partially the fault of the developer though, not necessarily the language itself.

 

[Babbles]

I get annoyed with Wire's website, especially when it gets rendered on my Blackberry. I would think by the very nature of their magazine that they would have a bit mobile friendly website.

 

[VinylxScratches]

autotrader.com

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Any site that's written entirely in Flash, Shockwave, Silverlight, or some other crap. I have yet to see a site written with those languages that's actually good. Partially the fault of the developer though, not necessarily the language itself.

I think it's the fault of the language for attracting the type of developer that thinks the language can do cool things. Flash is what idiots graduated to when they got bored with <BLINK> and <MARQUEE> tags.

Most of you probably don't remember it, but in the early days of instant messengers ICQ was the big thing. Their site tried to be one of those all-purpose portals that contained every bit of info any and every human could possibly want all jumbled together with absolutely no cohesion or attention to white space. It remains the worst website I have ever seen.

 

[KeithTalent]

HardForum is ugly as sin. I won't visit there because of it and because the main dude there is a raging douchebag.

KT

 

[xanis]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Any site that's written entirely in Flash, Shockwave, Silverlight, or some other crap. I have yet to see a site written with those languages that's actually good. Partially the fault of the developer though, not necessarily the language itself.

Pretty much. Hogs resources, eliminates pretty much any possibility for any SEO, generally looks bad.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Any site made by the Chinese government. This country's webpages make me feel like i went back to the 90s.

 

[Goosemaster]

zombo.com

I get negative energy vibes after having been tricked into going there half a billion times.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Slashdot.

 

[Red Squirrel]

The intranet page of the client I contract for. Can't post it obviously, but man it's brutal. Imagine some frontpage designed page by some 12 year old kid with zero knowledge of html. Add broken picture/links to that, then add links that start with C:\ or G:\ (G being a departmental shared drive, not everybody has access to everything).

That's what happens when they have weird crappy politics in place that disallow IT of touching any type of code. Instead they are paying something like 30k to have some company to make them a new one, which will end up looking like crap when they start modifying it with front page again.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

The BBC's weather section. Absolute garbage after the 'redesign'.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

NSFA
Ball-shocking horror

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Originally posted by: Xanis

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Any site that's written entirely in Flash, Shockwave, Silverlight, or some other crap. I have yet to see a site written with those languages that's actually good. Partially the fault of the developer though, not necessarily the language itself.

Pretty much. Hogs resources, eliminates pretty much any possibility for any SEO, generally looks bad.

Not the case with Silverlight. Everything is stored in plain text and fully indexable. Most modern search engines also index most Flash text content.