Top 5 Worst Websites of 2009

By TJ Warren

Our mission at DK is to rid the world of boring websites. To end the year of 2009 we decided to look at some of the worst websites of the year.  While not all of the websites we have chosen are boring, actually, some are rather entertaining, they do make up the Top 5 Worst Websites of 2009.

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#5 – Your New Dot Com (US)-   If you want your website to look as boring and from the 90’s as this Kansas City web designer’s website does, then take the 3 hours to fill in their brief 64 question contact form to request a quote from them.  Web designers are often noted as working harder on their clients websites than they’re own, but this is an extreme.  http://yournew.com/

#4 – Who Represents (US)  -   This website contains a listing of agents who represent various celebrities.  Great data, however, they might have been able to choose a better domain name, than http://whorepresents.com.  If one were to read the url the wrong way, they may think this is a site that helps complete your X-mas shopping with those hard to find presents.  This illustrates the importance of choosing your url carefully to make sure your website purpose isn’t misconstrued. A close runner up to this one was Experts Exchange (http://expertsexchange.com).  

Beware - Browsing may cause seizure

#3 – Miauk (UK) -    Beware building a website that may give viewers a seizure.  This actually does happen.  Well, not really, but the site is still painful to look at.  If you can bare the view and feel like finding the proverbial Waldo, try to find the link to their “Kala” page. http://miauk.com/

#2 – Bella de Soto (US) -  Have you ever wanted to take a large website with over 100 pages of content and cram it into one single home page?  Well, Bella did too.  She also adds a soundtrack which isn’t too bad until the shrieking and other sound effects begin about 10 seconds in.  And if you’re tired of the crossword puzzle or can’t muster another Sudoku, really challenge yourself by trying to figure out what this page is about. This forces us to wonder on what planet was this website a good idea.  http://belladesoto.us/

Do you like animated gifs or other quick website gimmicks? Well look no further than lingscars.com!

#1 – Lings Car Leasing (UK) –   Gizmos and crap galore on this site.  It is so bad its actually funny.   Her site has been on so many “Worst Websites” lists that this website is actually ranked as the 155,000th most tracked website today which may actually drive sales to the site.  Like they say, “Bad publicity is better than no publicity.”
What is really great is that Ms. Ling actually has advice about creating great websites.  One of her website design keys is to “Make stuff colourful and flashing!”  http://lingscars.com/