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<p><font size="4">The World's Worst Website Ever - Site Mistak</font>es</p>
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<p>Note: In April 2012, we added a few more quirks to the homepage that
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aren't mentioned in the original list below. Soon we'll launch a new TWWWE
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for your enjoyment.</p>
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<p><font size="1">< </font><a href="index.htm"><font size="1">Return to the
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homepage</font></a></p>
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<li>Header graphic is pixelated and over-optimized.</li>
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<li>Transparency in header graphic is overdone.</li>
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<li>Multiple font colors used in "ever"</li>
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<li>Animated stars (all animated gifs are generally a bad idea)</li>
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<li>Under construction graphics should never be used</li>
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<li>The notice "Under Construction" should almost never be used, especially
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on the homepage</li>
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<li>"<--" and other text-based markers/graphics are a faux pas in design</li>
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<li>This page, filenamed "new_page_1.htm" indicates poor file naming and
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organization</li>
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<li>"Main Menu" shouldn't exist; if people don't know what a main menu is,
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they shouldn't be on the web</li>
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<li>Teenie-bopper spellings such as "kewl" should never be used on any
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professional website</li>
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<li>I personally despise *smile* - please try to avoid it for my own
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sanity's sake</li>
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<li>Email icons are also really annoying, especially in they are animated
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(unless you are using real icons along with others such as print, etc.)</li>
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<li>Repeating backgrounds are almost always a bad idea</li>
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<li>Backgrounds that have color almost never work</li>
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<li>Beveled images, such as in the background image, are almost always
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unprofessional-looking</li>
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<li>In the yellow table near the top, the cell width is different from the
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table width, creating blank space on the right side</li>
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<li>Table borders can work if done properly. All borders represented
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on this site are examples of what NOT to do</li>
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<li>Javascript cursors are a joke! Just because the technology is
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there to do something, it shouldn't always be done. Ask the Britons
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about the <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_bomb">
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Cobalt Bomb</a>, for example</li>
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<li>Mouseovers for links can be done professionally and add a nice touch to
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a website, but text should never be resized or bolded when the cursor moves
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over it</li>
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<li>Inconsistency in the main menu is running rampant. If you're going
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to have icons, have them all the links</li>
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<li>The border around the icons is way too thick. I see this a lot</li>
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<li>The main menu option "GOOGLE MAPS" is not fully hyperlinked</li>
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<li>The link "WEATHER" doesn't work</li>
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<li>Flashing "New" or "Updated" icons are generally considered cheese-ball.
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Avoid them!</li>
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<li>Multiple fonts are used throughout the website, including some that are
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not web-safe</li>
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<li>There are numerous misspelled words in the "What's New" section</li>
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<li>Again, "1" for "one" and "u" for "you" are terrible for professional
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websites. Your customers will not take you seriously if they see stuff
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like this</li>
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<li>Scrolling marquees can be effective if used non-obtrusively and rarely.
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But most are used wrongly so...</li>
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<li>"About TWWWE" has no hyperlink</li>
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<li>There are several examples of Microsoft Word Art on this site. It
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is almost always a bad idea to use it</li>
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<li>Separator bars that are animated can be very disorienting, let alone
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tacky</li>
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<li>Blue on red is a bad idea</li>
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<li>Red on blue is a bad idea</li>
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<li>Blue or red on black is a bad idea</li>
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<li>There are several other "bad idea" examples in the "Fantastic Colours"
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section</li>
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<li>I absolutely, unequivocally, hate the font "brush script", which is used
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in "Fantastic Colours" as well as "The" and "Ever" in the header. It
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is the most overused script font ever</li>
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<li>If you use American English, avoid "Colours" and other misspelled words</li>
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<li>There is a page counter at the bottom. 99% of the time it is a bad
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idea to have a public counter on your page</li>
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<li>The link "Shocking Pictures" goes to the "Shocking Photos" section.
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Most of the time the link and the page/section title should be the same</li>
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<li>There are varying table widths on this site. Consistency is key!</li>
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<li>There is a table that is too long for the screen, creating a horizontal
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scrollbar. Horizontal scrollbars are bad, bad, bad!</li>
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<li>In addition to numerous misspelled words, there is several examples of
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bad grammar, including "These photos are SHOCKINGLY formatted HORRIFICLY"</li>
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<li>The first photo on the left is formatted wrong. It is actually a
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large photo resized using HTML. This is bad because photo quality is
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lost, but most importantly the size of the file is huge, which takes a long
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time to download.</li>
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<li>The second photo from the left is also formatted wrong. It is
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beveled (which is really personal taste, not necessarily wrong) and
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over-optimized. Notice the bleeding colors</li>
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<li>The third image might be hard to tell at first. If you look
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closely, the sunset colors are grainy. This is because the image was
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saved as a gif instead of a jpg. When working with images of brilliant
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colors, save them as jpgs and not gifs. This is because gifs are
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limited to 256 colors while jpgs are virtually limitless</li>
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<li>The fourth image is what happens when you take a small photo and
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increase it's size. Despite what CSI: Miami does, you cannot blow up
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images and make them look good</li>
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<li>A funny bit, at least humorous to me, is the word "Trifecta" used on the
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fourth photo</li>
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<li>When laying out photos left to right, if possible, make sure they are
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the same size</li>
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<li>The domain name <a href="http://www.theworldsworstwebsiteever.com">
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www.theworldsworstwebsiteever.com</a> is too long (that's why we also use
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<a href="http://www.twwwe.com">www.twwwe.com</a>)</li>
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<li>I really think the four racing scrolling marquees are quite hilarious,
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but again, the overuse of marquees are never a good idea</li>
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<li>There are broken images everywhere on this site. Watch out for
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these!</li>
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<li>The text box that says "Could we possibly do any more, said the cat" is
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a triple-whammy. First, it doesn't make sense. Secondly, it has
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nothing to do with the site's content. And thirdly, it is a graphic
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when it should be plain HTML text.</li>
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<li>Last updated scripts are mostly a bad idea. The only exceptions is
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if you update your site very often (almost daily) and probably should be
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used for blogs, news sites or the like</li>
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<li>"Sight" being used instead of "site". I actually see this occur
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too often</li>
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<li>MIDIs (the music playing in the background) are officially my biggest
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pet-peeve. They should never be used under any circumstance.
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Almost all embedded sounds, not just midis, are very annoying</li>
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<li>The embedded midi cannot be turned off and loops forever. If you
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must have sound on your website, give people the QUICK option to turn it off</li>
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<li>Back in the late 90s it was considered normal for webmasters to put
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viewing requirements/suggestions in the footer of their site (i.e. "Best
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viewed with Internet Explorer"). I almost never see this on
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professional websites with the exception of some Flash-based sites</li>
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<li>Page transitions were neat in 1996, but not today</li>
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<li>Justified text, as seen in the "What's New" box, is usually not a good
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idea. It looks good on newspapers, but for some reason doesn't work
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for the web</li>
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<li>Another pet-peeve is text and images that butt-up against the table's
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border. To fix this, add cell or table padding</li>
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<li>I'm sure there other mistakes on this site or ones made not represented
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here, but for now, that's all</li>
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</ol>
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<p>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><EFBFBD> 2008 The World's Worst Website Ever /
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<a href="http://www.kylake.us">Kentucky Lake Productions, LLC</a> - Murray, KY.
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All Rights Reserved.</font></p>
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