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bUD uGGLY Wab Design

Chocolate Pickle — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:05:08 -0800

bUD uGLLY dESIGN -- creating ugly web sites since 1996

Featuring tastfule use of the blink feature!

By: Chocolate Pickle

Chocolate Pickle — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:14:51 -0800

Here's the very first incarnation of their web site, 15 years ago.

By: infini

infini — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:19:24 -0800

*muffles giggles with both hands* Thanks, Chocolate Pickle!

By: jedicus

jedicus — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:21:26 -0800

And yet I've seen photographers' sites that were less usable.

By: scratch

scratch — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:21:42 -0800

As a chronically depressed editor (of words), I appreciate the spelling and punctuation misteaks in the copy almost as much as I appreciate the whole thing itself.

By: X | ANA | X

X | ANA | X — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:22:43 -0800

Where's the dancing banana?

By: "But who are the Chefs?"

"But who are the Chefs?" — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:24:39 -0800

I remember the old World's Worst World Wide Web Site; it had leopard-print wallpaper and a picture of Spider Man.

By: lobbyist

lobbyist — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:25:17 -0800

This is oddly reminiscent of every website I ever created as a teenager with FrontPage 2003. Those were the good days.

By: littlesq

littlesq — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:42:24 -0800

HoW dId YoU fInD mY gEoCiTiEs WeBpAgE?? ( ((><)) )

By: hot_monster

hot_monster — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:45:20 -0800

'Under Construction' gifs are free, people! This is a top-shelf company.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:54:56 -0800

It can't be that ugly, since there's no "Requires IE6" gif anywhere.

By: Lutoslawski

Lutoslawski — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:07:41 -0800

Needs more visitor counters!

By: usonian

usonian — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:16:52 -0800

Needs more 'HTML Writers Guild' badges.

By: dubitable

dubitable — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:35:17 -0800

That's hilarious. Makes me thinking of a site some fellow devs and I talked about but never followed through on years ago, we were going to put it up at "baduserexperience.com," and it would have the same sort of features--auto-playing sound onload, inconsistent/incoherent navigation and controls, grotesquely clashing design, etc. If you look at the source there's some funny stuff in there too...for example, on the tips page (*snarf*), after the head tag and before the body tag, which in and of itself cracks me up, is this chunk of brilliant nonsense: <stop></stop> <this> <ahhhh> </ahhhh> </this> And at the bottom of that same page apparently they've added a huge chunk of space using a pre tag with a whole lot of whitespace in it. After that is some more nonsense: <the end> </the end> Does anyone else find this kind of stuff funny?

By: exogenous

exogenous — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:07:08 -0800

Ah, I was wondering who did the web design for Potomac Airfield.

By: Hollywood Upstairs Medical College

Hollywood Upstairs Medical College — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:25:53 -0800

ERHMAGEHRD WAB DESIGN

By: schmod

schmod — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:48:29 -0800

Remember when XKCD did this?

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:51:21 -0800

Another board I visit has a long-running "worst of the web" compendium, and we rate sites on various moves, like the moving rainbow line, tiled backgrounds, hit counters, "under construction" images, "Welcome to GoLive" page titles, etc. These guys hit all the notes.

By: scruss

scruss — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:52:21 -0800

It's also home to TinyZine - "the world's smallest webzine" - featuring The Adventures of Tiny the Toaster.

By: infini

infini — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:57:28 -0800

I miss My First Tripod

By: mr.ersatz

mr.ersatz — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:58:42 -0800

Awesome! If you want more of this sort of thing, check out Contemporary Home Computing where Olia and Dragan mine the Geocities archive looking for such gems of "vernacular" design.

By: jwhite1979

jwhite1979 — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:24:19 -0800

Finally a song worth having stuck in my head.

By: ShutterBun

ShutterBun — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:29:26 -0800

The music on this page is hilarious (give it a couple of minutes)

By: Houstonian

Houstonian — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:30:38 -0800

Microsoft Internot exploder 0.2

By: chapps

chapps — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 12:09:23 -0800

Where is the dancing banana? oh nooooos my kid went to hackasaurus and he chose as a project to change the google website to include the dancing banana.

By: chapps

chapps — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 12:09:52 -0800

in fact I'd say all the kids who were over 10 incorporated the dancing banana. younger kids got pokeman and my little pony.

By: This, of course, alludes to you

This, of course, alludes to you — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:12:02 -0800

these site designs are visually exhausting and incoherent