Looking at bad web site design is valuable because it give us the opportunity to learn from other people's mistakes without having to make them ourselves.
Winston Churchill once said, "All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes." If you go through this site and learn from all the mistakes, you will be a very, very wise web designer and be able to take a bad web site and change it into a good web site.
Great web design is an art and occurs when design and content are seamless and you don't notice its greatness. With great web design, it's easy to find the information you need. The content makes you want to return again and again and, most importantly, great design gives credibility to the company/organization.
I think I've fried my brain. I've spent an incredible amount of time over the holidays going through all the contenders for worst web sites of 2008. Here are the final categories:
I've been showing and discussing bad web design on this site for the last 13 years. Heck, I'm the king of sucky web design.
Below are some articles about bad web design.
Worst Web
Sites of 2008
Just when I thought web design couldn't get worse, it did. What's most amazing to me is that somebody or some group had to approve these designs.
60 Sites That Suck
From Last Year
Unfortunately, 2007 was among the worst ever for great web design, but the year was wonderful (figuratively) for bad design.
Worst Web Sites From the Recent Past
These sites have a minimum of one major problem that's seen over and over again. Since you know better, don't make the same mistakes.
Two Checklists to Find Web Design Mistakes
There are at least 149 Ways to Kill Your Web Site and 82 Ways to Ruin Your Web Site. What mistakes are you committing?
Live, Daily Examples From Current Sites
Features daily examples of web sites that have accessibility, usability, and regular design problems. Learn from these mistakes.
Past, Present, and Future Mistakes
I've gathered what I think are the biggest web design mistakes committed during the period 1995 to 2015. Yes, I can see the future.
Web Design Articles I've Written
The articles range from Mystery Meat Navigation to Don't Confuse Web Design With Sex to Flash is Evil. Flash is Good.
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