November 8 2007

Worst web design known to man

HavenWorks.com gets my nomination for the worst-designed website ever.  It’s a simultaneous travesty of graphic design, information design, and code design. Of the three, the information design is clearly the worst – Edward Tufte would shit a brick if he saw this. The page’s 4MB of HTML code is pretty impressive too – 12,000 errors, according to the w3c validator. Even though the site seems like it took a ridiculous amount of work to make, I think it probably took the same amount of time a normal medium-sized website takes, except none of that time was spent removing or simplifying things.

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4 Comments

  1. Zeero
    Nov 8 2007
    9:54 am

    If you scrolllll to the bottom, they’re proud of the fact that they’re the worst ever.

  2. Steven Fisher
    Nov 8 2007
    11:32 am

    That’s just amazing. I’m in awe, I really am.

  3. Steven Fisher
    Nov 9 2007
    10:05 am

    Ah well. At least the site doesn’t have a translucent footer. ;)

  4. Allen
    Nov 9 2007
    10:42 am

    Yeah, and at least it doesn’t require clicking a javascript popup to see post dates or permalinks. Maybe it’s not so bad after all! ;)

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