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Last chance to see world's ugliest Web siteOddly enough, there’s a company eager to stake the claim of World’s Ugliest Web site. “Over the past few months, our team has visited thousands of Web sites, and none is as ugly as Guidezilla,” said Ryan Duques of WD Enterprises, citing Guidezilla’s lackluster graphics, tricky navigability, and ho-hum fonts as examples of its unsightliness. WD Enterprises owns Guidezilla, an event calendar site. The company had no qualms proclaiming its own site as the world’s ugliest in a release, part of a clever campaign (hey, it caught my eye) to tout a site redesign set to be unveiled November 2. “We engaged our users as a focus group and then began to scour the Internet for best-in-class examples. While visiting these sites we realized something else — ours is really ugly,” said Duques. The new look will enhance the user’s experience with improved navigation, clean graphics, and faster loading pages. Currently focused on the northeast, Guidezilla.com accepts and hosts events from around the United States. The site also acts as an aggregator, which republishes events on Web sites like www.madisonct.com, brooklynheightsblog.com, and www.lncurrents.com. You call that ugly? This is ugly Personally, I think the Guidezilla guys are being way to hard on their site, though it could definitely benefit from a redesign. If you want to see a really ugly Web site, this one was intentionally messed up to demonstrate what not to do. Be sure to have your speakers on to get the full ugliness. Yup, that’s painful. Readers of Niki Brown’s Design O’Blog (where you can also find the horrible green uuuuugly!!! graphic) also submitted some doozies you can check out here. And then there’s Craiglist But ugly need not be limited to fringe, less well known or even sites with intentional design errors. Gerry McGovern, author of Killer Web Content and an expert on managing Web content as a business asset, recently dubbed the popular Craiglist, The Ugliest Website in the World. But hey, it loads so fast. 0 TrackBacksListed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Last chance to see world's ugliest Web site . TrackBack URL for this entry: https://swarm.jupitermedia.com/mt-tb.cgi/9096 |
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