Worst Web Sites 2008

The definition of an "Over the Top" industry is just like the definition of pornography -- you know it when you see it. Over the Top sites generally deal with philosophy, religion, politics, etc., but they're generally not mainstream.

Sites listed 10-18-08

Accept Jesus, Forever Forgiven!

This site was the fourth worst web site of 2006 and winner in the category "Jesus Hates Our Web Site."

It's a classic example of everything a web site shouldn't be. As one commenter stated:

I've been round and round a succession of appalling pages with a collection of backgrounds that are presumably for sale on "Backgrounds from hell" and never managed to find my way back to the original page. Something in there caused my mouse to throw a fit and I had to shut the machine down to get it working again. However, the site has a guestbook with favourable comments about how cheerful it is, so the visitors obviously love it and, despite what I think, it does fulfill its purpose as a religious site. The first thing everyone says when they open that page is JEEZUS!!!!

Space Ark

The person who sent this site in said,

To start, I used to be a writer for science fiction magazines, and I've seen some really godawful Web sites for science fiction authors, fans, magazines, and conventions in my time. I submit one that gave me flashbacks to 1997...

It is just me, or is the universe trying to tell me something by my seeing this site just after the tenth anniversary of the Heaven's Gate suicides? If I didn't know better, I'd suspect that the Heaven's Gate crew designed this site...or that the author thought that using the Heaven's Gate templates were a great way to sell his book.

Creation Museum, Taxidermy Hall of Fame of NC and Antique Tool Museum

The Creation Museum is one of the candidates for Worst Web Site of 2007.

This site is a classic example of Mistake #5 from Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015 — " Have you ever seen another web site? Really? Doesn't look like it." I call this type of design the "I haven't taken my antipsychotics in a while school of web design."

Jesus Christ is the ONLY way to heaven!

One of the comments about this site was:

I am both a web designer and an extremely conservative Christian. This site offends both of those. First, the content: if you're going to make a site to tell people how they should act and live, you should make sure the validity of your arguments. "Real" Christian music doesn't have drums? (Ok, I'm a little ashamed to admit that I read that far into the page...) But then, the design! Actually I don't want to talk about it. It makes my gassy to think someone might associate this clown with me and my friends.

Oh, it's a candidate for the worst nonprofit web site of 2007.

Celibacy, Meditation, and Enlightenment

The person who submitted the site said:

If you are going to have a site this controversial, at least employ decent web design.

I am using a monitor with a resolution of 1280x1024, and when I go to the site I am greeted with a "splash page" in the form of a poem that takes up the browser's entire viewport so that I have to scroll way down to get to the actual content. This "splash page" also includes a poor-quality audio file that has the site's owner speaking that begins playing as soon as the page is loaded.

Thankfully an on/off button exists. The rest of the site is the usual too many fonts and colors, lack of organization, et cetera.

The Non-Moving Earth and Anti-Evolution Web Page

The Webominations are legion. I'm not sure really where to start, but to its credit, there are no major graphics abuses or Mystery Meat Navigation, since there are basically no graphics. I'm speechless.

Time Cube

Just visit it. You'll see. Or if you want a real explanation:

A. Near longest page in the world.
B. Too... Big... Text.... Can't..... Read.....
C. Pretty colored text. Ew.
D. Too much more. Just look.

Safelibraries.org

Where to start? Red text against a yellow background. Random graphics. A combination of font sizes, styles and capitalization that would look more at home on a piece of direct mail.