BlogFile: The Worst in Web Design
In the midst of awards season, this is an honour you don’t want to win: Small Business Web Coach Craig Dewe has published a list of the “5 Worst Web Designers in the World.”
Dewe’s list includes “professional” sites with nested tables, frames, scrolling marquees, flashing backgrounds, and lots of other outdated graphical tricks that novice designers played with in the 90s – the difference being, of course, that these companies want to take your money for their web design “skills.”
We don’t actually think #5 is so bad; it’s certainly not the worst. Despite its nested tables, the site is fairly average (albeit basic) and has some good SEO qualities too. I’ve seen worse in my Internet travels just this week.
The rest of the companies really do deserve their place on the list, though, and while it’s not our place to wish failure on any small business, these are some companies that we really hope don’t get that much custom.
Hi, thanks for the mention.
Number 5 just impressed me with it’s giant random image taking up most of the page. And not a pretty photo either, but rather a nice jumble of blocks…because blocks are important in web design.
They even change to other random combinations of colours and boxes on the various links. That’s basically what nosed number 5 above the others I found. But if you have any entries, feel free to share them in the comments. I might have to add some to the post as we go.
Thanks,
Craig