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Its not easy to describe what good design is. Opinion’s differ wildly, one person’s masterpiece is another’s eyesore.

However, by comparison, describing what constitutes a bad design is easy. Its so easy, sometimes, words are not needed, a picture or a link will suffice.

Below are some of the worst examples I’ve come across.

wayfarersgolf.co.uk

This one really doesn’t need any explanation, just click the image and see for yourself. Notice how the designer has not included the usual link to his website at the bottom of the website, no for this masterpiece he deserves more - there are two whole pages on his clients website just to advertise his services.

wesellcoffee.com

First thing your presented with is a very large picture of their factory - not terribly interesting. But it gets worse, the entire website is set in uppercase, in Times and the paragraphs are centered. Any one of these three ‘design’ elements would have been bad enough, but all three together are unforgiveable.

mjmjoinerycardiff.co.uk

Flash for the sake of flash, things don’t line up and what is the blue to black gradient with a circle in it supposed to signify?

mangohouse.co.uk

Note the scrolling flash gallery that takes about two minutes to load and there’s music! Thankfully, a redesign is in progress.

freemap.com

Animated spinning globes and background textures that wowed people back in 1995 don’t have the same impact now.

Do you know of any websites that surpass these for crappiness? Leave a comment.

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