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http://www.fabricland.co.uk/ This is the worst commercial website I have ever seen, bar none. Firstly, you can't actually place orders using it, you have to phone the company and place the order manually. Second, just loving look at it. I don't even know where to begin. Artistically, it's a mess, animated gifs like it's 1997, brain melting primary colours, fonts and text styles picked seemingly at random. Technically it's just as bad, you'll note your tab says "new page 1", and that no matter what you click on, the address doesn't change so it's impossible to link to a specific sub page. This isn't some podunk company or ancient defunct site either. They have nine shops across Southern England, and the website is constantly updates (check out the "FABRIC FOR THE FROZEN FILM" section, replete with crying baby gifs for some reason). It's been discerned that the webmaster is a relative of one of the owners of the company, and even though 90% of the employees are well aware it's hideous, no one is going to make them stop. They've probably lost out on a LOT of potential business, but that's their problem I guess. I challenge you to find a current website for a real company that is as loving hideous as this one. Failing that, post your favourite butt ugly horribly made sites. Content is very much secondary, I'm just looking for horrible design, ugly interfaces and generally badly put together poo poo. Geocities throwbacks or super shiny, over designed but completely inavigable pieces of web 2.0 bullshit, it's all welcome.
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this one is kind of magical actually: SPACE JAM, straight out of 1996 http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
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http://www.evenbalance.com/ I've always hated punkbuster, I don't remember a time where it hasn't been a loving mess of an anti-cheat program, from randomly booting you, to not booting actual cheaters, to straight up causing a friend not be able to play BF3 at all, their website is just the icing on the cake and really comes as no surprise it looks like someone's geocities page, complete with lame .gif banner.
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Yvettes Bridal, although it might be wonderful. I don't know http://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/
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Lydia of Purple.
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Cultural Assistance Products is a company that sells nothing but hall passes, which they refer to as the HallPass system. That's it. Hall passes. http://www.hallpasses.com/index.htm
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Nice dresses, I wonder if she sells the patterns
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http://www.sewingandembroiderywarehouse.com/embtrb.htm This one's pretty powerful.
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For the record, Fabric Land Bristol loving rocks
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Humbug posted:Yvettes Bridal, although it might be wonderful. I don't know The best part of this page are the random Blender screenshots of 3d pyramids and stuff 
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Dogan posted:The best part of this page are the random Blender screenshots of 3d pyramids and stuff Wrong. The best part is the music.
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HMS Boromir posted:http://www.sewingandembroiderywarehouse.com/embtrb.htm This one's pretty powerful. Wow. Chrome says the computed size of the last line of text is 8000px. Goddamn.
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Gruffalo Soldier posted:For the record, Fabric Land Bristol loving rocks oh the shops are pretty great, that's why it's so baffling that no one in upper management has managed to persuade the owner to tell his wife (or whoever it is) to get a competent webmaster in, make a new site and triple the size of the online part of their business overnight.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Wrong. The best part is the music, and the fart noises as you scroll down the page. FTFY
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Twistershift posted:FTFY My stomach hurts from laughing.
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Twistershift posted:FTFY Oh my god I never noticed this. I feel like I've found Jesus, and he just handed me a winning scratch off lotto ticket.
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http://www.wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/
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I'm reminded of MSY, a chain of computer shops. I think their site might actually have improved from what it used to be, but it's still pretty bad. My favourite bit is their price lists, which are pdf files with just lists of computer parts and prices, no other information. And the site is about as professional-looking and helpful as the actual shops. They used to survive based on the fact that they were really cheap. I haven't checked lately, but I've heard they're actually mostly about the same as their competitors now.
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HMS Boromir posted:http://www.sewingandembroiderywarehouse.com/embtrb.htm This one's pretty powerful. How does this even happen?
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A whole big mess of <h2> and <h3> tags, none of them closed.
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lingscars.com is pretty great. Timecube.com is mostly just about the crazy.
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http://www.stmoritz-restaurant.co.uk/ Nice food but I was not prepared for that intro page
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Heavenly Dream Web Design http://hdwebdesign.faithweb.com/index.html
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Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment Corporation http://www.utube.com/ It has confused many people.
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It's not bad compared to the rest of the things in this thread, but it is a favorite: http://library.bard.edu/ I did a final presentation on this online catalog for a summer class (on cataloging, never take cataloging as a summer class. Spread that poo poo out over a semester) and general agreement of my classmates was that it was a terrible, poorly-designed search interface with no rhyme or reason. I imagine students doing the internet version of this:  Also allow me to say how much I adore Lydia of Purple. trickybiscuits has a new favorite as of 01:31 on Sep 12, 2014 |
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Humbug posted:Yvettes Bridal, although it might be wonderful. I don't know Dear Christ  e, Also, I think that geo-cities-izer makes it more comprehensible 
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Really??? I'm the one that's gonna have to do it? Well, alright then. http://www.somethingawful.com/
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What's that awful site that sells tents and tarps?
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http://www.americanbeautyequipment.com Last month they spent ~$22k in AdWords
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If Restaurant St. Moritz is going strong 100 years from now, its intro page should still be the same, painstakingly re-written into whatever code drives the 3-d displays of the future. Magento, Prestashop and their ilk are driving the wonky online shop extinct, but the paranormal still offers some eldritch pleasures: http://www.sorcerers-apprentice.co.uk/ (I know that content is secondary, but scroll to bottom of page for their legal disclaimer, also be sure to click on “CUSTOMERS THINKING OF CALLING MUST CLICK HERE FIRST”)
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:What's that awful site that sells tents and tarps? Why, Party Tent City Dot Com, of course. RIP
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http://mk-zodiac.com/ It's a website that does research into the Zodiac Killer, it's also loving insane.
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http://www.readingcinemas.co.nz/ It's not as dramatically awful as some of the posts so far, I admit. But it's startlingly clumsy design, all form and no function.
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While not even on the level of insanity of these other websites, this one offers a man in a green body suit who probably get's his rocks off on these videos. Also sofa's made of paper. http://papersofa.com/ That head is infact not the name of the website but the green suited man himself. The website offers a wide variety of paper sofas, but only features several photos and videos of a man and his fetish and/or obssessions. You can tell because the word papersofa is used over a dozen times on the page. Also, on the navigation bar kinda at the top of the page, 'home' and 'papersofa.com' both take you to the same place.
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Fatkraken posted:oh the shops are pretty great, that's why it's so baffling that no one in upper management has managed to persuade the owner to tell his wife (or whoever it is) to get a competent webmaster in, make a new site and triple the size of the online part of their business overnight. Woe be the web designer that gets the job...
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I just did some tech support for my parents, who use NotaBene. NotaBene's website: http://www.notabene.com/index.html Their one endorsement: “Nota Bene is faster, more powerful, more rational, more adult, and better adapted to academic needs than anything else on the market.” Jonathan Bennett — A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals (Oxford University Press, 2003) 
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Obdicut posted:I just did some tech support for my parents, who use NotaBene. Also, "adapted to academic needs" usually means "adapted to the specific insane requirements and muttered requests of an aged, IT illiterate librarian in a minor university, who for some reason represents the organisational hivemind of all academics". Seriously, try and change any mostly-unusable academic software or search tools and hundreds of crusty piss-smelling lecturers will charge to its defence as "the way we're used to". Cite this gay earth
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http://www.justines1937.com/ Full screen, super low-res video of titties that may cause seizures, you're unable to find links until you scroll over the site's title, and unreadable text.
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http://www.bellads.info/ Someone's personal homepage dealing with various political issues, I think.
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Korth is a German company that makes over-engineered revolvers that cost over $5000 Korth USA has had the same website for 15 years http://www.korthusa.com/ that gif
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