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PC World's 25 Worst Web Sites
Cilibrin writes "PC World has posted a story on the 25 dumbest dot-coms and silliest sites. Among those to make the list are the pet-related Neuticles — a site for testicular implants for pets — and every child's favorite, Rabies for Kids." From the article: "As venture capitalists scramble to throw money at anything labeled Ajax or Web 2.0, and Web publishing becomes so simple that anyone with a working mouse hand can put up a site, we offer our list of the 25 worst Web sites of all time. Many of our bottom 25 date from the dot-com boom, when no bad idea went unfunded. Some sites were outright scams — at least two of our featured Net entrepreneurs spent some time in the pokey. Others are just examples of bad design, or sites that got a little too careless with users' information, or tried to demand far too much personal data for too little benefit. And to prove we're not afraid to pick on somebody much bigger than us, our pick for the worst Web site may be the hottest cyberspot on the planet right now. "
People need to get basic information from somewhere, what's so terrible for this particular source?
The best part is PCWorld's site sucks.
I don't know what their minimum requirement is, but I don't like to maximize my browser window, so I can see what's going on in the background. I have a large screen though, so most sites will fit in a window that's roughly 1024 across...not this site though!
And who doesn't love an article that's broken down into at least 5 separate pages? I know there's nothing I love more than clicking and waiting 5 times, just to read a single article.
BonziBuddy is about as silly as the Spawn of Satan.
I've never known anyone to have trouble with it. How is it difficult to click the "update" button and let it do everything for you?
This sounds more like a lame attempt to bash "Micro$oft" yet again.
I say this as someone who both loathes myspace, and has an account (granted w/o any information filled in), but how is signing up for a myspace account resistance? The problem with moshi conceptually, is that people don't care whether their code or their CSS is kosher, they just care that it looks the way they want it to. I guess i just fail to see how moshi encourages people to be better. Even if you give a proof of concept, that doesn't mean that anybody is going to jump on the bandwagon.
There are lives at stake here!
I'm sorry, but the worst website I have ever seen has to be http://hosanna1.com/
people don't care whether their code or their CSS is kosher, they just care that it looks the way they want it to.
Also, the way they want it to look is often terrible - most of the MySpace sites are either completely unreadable because of some background the site owner has decided to apply, or just plain annoying because they've decided that absolutely everyone must hear their favorite piece of music so they push it upon you as soon as you open the page.
From what I can see, the one good thing MySpace has done is group a large amount of crap in one place so it's easier to avoid.
(And I'm not even going to get started on the number of MySpace people who have taken to whoring my bandwidth by linking full size 6MP photos off my web server as their background images without permission).
http://blog.nexusuk.org
They've obviously never visited University of Massachusetts at Boston's website or Northeastern University's School of Professional and Continuing Studies. Just try to find a course listing on these pathetically designed sites; I dare you. Note especially how you need to look up a code that corresponds to "Fall 2006" on the UMass site before you can even search for a fall course, and you have to go through this horrific Peoplesoft data entry screen. I am sure that the average high school student could have designed a simpler, more usable site than either of these.
Fooey on bad web sites, made by multimillion dollar organizations, that cause hundreds of people to have to call up the institution and ask how to navigate to the information they need. Simpler and more cost effective would have been to simply put the university's logo and a phone number, since you're going to have to call them anyway.
it's = "it is"; its = possessive. E.g., it's flapping its wings.
That site just has to be a joke.
Surely someone has made that site as bad as possible as a joke to show their friends. No one could be that truly awful and still claim to have "the most beautiful pages on the www".
Check out the "Why we suggest you use IE" page: http://www.hosanna1.com/AAAWWW/why/index.html
Tell me that's not a joke. It's just impossible to take seriously. The inaccuracies sprinkled with a hint of misunderstood technical info is just impossible to believe!