Bad Websites
Oceanside, California
This is designed for the world to ‘find out everything and anything about this beautiful city’. Except this website does nothing to help the user believe that Oceanside is actually a beautiful place! Upon entering the site, you are greeted with a ugly splash page, which thanks the user before they have even got to the main page. To actually enter the site you have to click on a spinning flash image of the word ENTER, not only does it look dated, but it doesn’t fit in with the colour scheme, page layout, or the purpose of the whole website. When you finally reach the main page, it doesn’t get much better. More horrible flash images, a long scroll down page, hard to read blue text, and so many links its hard to know where to begin.
HavenWorks
From what I can tell, this is supposed to be a news site but rather than it be informative, quick and straight to the point, its confusing, annoying and ultimately pointless, as the user goes away more confused than informed. The user is bombarded with colours, hard to read text, tiny images, poor layout and too many links!
Lumber Software Solution
I’m not entirely sure what this website is all about, but entering a site where your greeted with a robotic voice, scrolling flashing images and hard to read graphic texts is not exactly what i’d be pleased to see. The constant flashing and random colour scheme (especially the sickly, luminous green) is so annoying that by the time anyone gets to the main page, the user would probably of had enough and leave the site?
