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The worst of the worst in web design!

The offending site:
http://www.betweenthebuns.com/

The site of the "designer" that made it:
http://www.icemantech.com/

Be sure to read all of the IceMan's "tips" and try not to fall over laughing. Especially gems like "never pay more than $4 per month [for hosting]". The random price/feature comparison chart with him against unnamed and probably totally made-up "Competitor #1, Competitor #2, Competitor #3" is great too.

The guy is from my hometown, I found it awhile back while checking the Between the Buns site for their hours. It still is the pinnacle of awful, at least in terms of someone who seriously considers himself a web designer.
 
wow mrogers! Thank you for posting that. I loved it!

Also, most website designers are either techies, or designers. Neither of which know real business. With my business background, I will fuse practicality, business, design, and function to achieve the best website to suit your users' needs.
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--Iceman

hmmm, as a web designer, I should think that being a 'techie' and a designer are pretty good qualifications. Another contradiction in the same paragraph is the pushing of his fantastic business background. Why would someone who professes to be so good at business start a web design business which does not employ 'techie' nor designer folks.

The chart was also wonderful.
 
mrogers said:
The offending site:
http://www.betweenthebuns.com/

The site of the "designer" that made it:
http://www.icemantech.com/

Be sure to read all of the IceMan's "tips" and try not to fall over laughing. Especially gems like "never pay more than $4 per month [for hosting]". The random price/feature comparison chart with him against unnamed and probably totally made-up "Competitor #1, Competitor #2, Competitor #3" is great too.

The guy is from my hometown, I found it awhile back while checking the Between the Buns site for their hours. It still is the pinnacle of awful, at least in terms of someone who seriously considers himself a web designer.
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Ha ha! If you were looking for a website design for that Netscape 2 retro look- he's you're man.
 
mrogers said:
The offending site:
http://www.betweenthebuns.com/

The site of the "designer" that made it:
http://www.icemantech.com/

Be sure to read all of the IceMan's "tips" and try not to fall over laughing. Especially gems like "never pay more than $4 per month [for hosting]". The random price/feature comparison chart with him against unnamed and probably totally made-up "Competitor #1, Competitor #2, Competitor #3" is great too.

The guy is from my hometown, I found it awhile back while checking the Between the Buns site for their hours. It still is the pinnacle of awful, at least in terms of someone who seriously considers himself a web designer.
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Just wow! It just makes me laugh knowing that there are companies out there using his designs and probably think it's great themselves.
 
a456 said:
Agree, agree, agree, agree ... These sites are all crazily busy and difficult to get a grip on - I particularly like the one that gives advice on how not to suck but sucks itself (ooops that sounds rude, sorry!)
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Not trying to insult your intelligence, but you do know that that site is SUPPOSED to suck right? - thats the point.
 
mrogers said:
Be sure to read all of the IceMan's "tips" and try not to fall over laughing. Especially gems like "never pay more than $4 per month [for hosting]". The random price/feature comparison chart with him against unnamed and probably totally made-up "Competitor #1, Competitor #2, Competitor #3" is great too.

The guy is from my hometown, I found it awhile back while checking the Between the Buns site for their hours. It still is the pinnacle of awful, at least in terms of someone who seriously considers himself a web designer.
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That is just too funny. The client comments are pretty darn good as well.

I liked
The results were FAR above expectations.
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All I could think was that the expectations were too low ;)
 
mrogers said:
The offending site:
http://www.betweenthebuns.com/

The site of the "designer" that made it:
http://www.icemantech.com/

Be sure to read all of the IceMan's "tips" and try not to fall over laughing. Especially gems like "never pay more than $4 per month [for hosting]". The random price/feature comparison chart with him against unnamed and probably totally made-up "Competitor #1, Competitor #2, Competitor #3" is great too.

The guy is from my hometown, I found it awhile back while checking the Between the Buns site for their hours. It still is the pinnacle of awful, at least in terms of someone who seriously considers himself a web designer.
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God that's gold. Sadly I used to go to the bloody mary bar at Between the Buns on football Saturdays in South Bend. I'm a little sorry that I contributed money to this guy's career.
 
mrogers said:
The offending site:
http://www.betweenthebuns.com/

The site of the "designer" that made it:
http://www.icemantech.com/

Be sure to read all of the IceMan's "tips" and try not to fall over laughing. Especially gems like "never pay more than $4 per month [for hosting]". The random price/feature comparison chart with him against unnamed and probably totally made-up "Competitor #1, Competitor #2, Competitor #3" is great too.

The guy is from my hometown, I found it awhile back while checking the Between the Buns site for their hours. It still is the pinnacle of awful, at least in terms of someone who seriously considers himself a web designer.
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"Professional Website Design, Creation, Hosting Guidance, Flash Production, Gifmaking, and Bulk Emailing"

BULK EMAILING? Hahahahaha, well I guess bulk emailing could be considered an art.
 
Those last two were particularly awful! Well done, posting them here, I mean!

I especially liked the images that were cut in half, and a one pixel border around where a magic wand was used in a graphics tool to select the image for copy/paste into the web site but the wrong tolerance set. Those who work with graphics alot know what I mean! And talk about a left justification issue, overall. I'm serious, those sites really sucked.

-jim
 
InkMaster said:
AH! but unlike YOU, he's an Eagle Scout and worked at KFC! :rolleyes:
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I know. I feel so unfulfilled.

Glad you guys enjoyed it..I've been wanting the right opportunity to share that pile of digital fecal matter for awhile. :p When I showed it to my designer coworkers it provided a solid half hour of entertainment.
 
mrogers said:
I know. I feel so unfulfilled.

Glad you guys enjoyed it..I've been wanting the right opportunity to share that pile of digital fecal matter for awhile. :p When I showed it to my designer coworkers it provided a solid half hour of entertainment.
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I spent a good long time looking through the whole site and the sites designed by the iceman. :D Priceless!
 
It's not as spectacularly awful as some of the sites here, but this web design company I ran across recently is my favorite in concept:

http://www.tablemtn.com/

The site itself is just generic mid-90s stuff, and their portfolio is full of stuff that's merely bland, not horrifying. What's hilarious is right up at the top of the source, where it says <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">

Now, if I'm not mistaken, Frontpage 4.0 is the version that was included with Office 2000. Further, if you look at their portfolio sites, including the ones launched this year, they all have the same generator tag (not to mention telltale well-indented, archaic table-based code).


So if you put it together, what this means is that this "web design firm" bought a copy of Office 2000 sometime 8 or so years ago and has been using the included version of Frontpage as their primary tool for the better part of the past decade. That their graphic skills apparently stopped in 1997 when they opened shop is just icing on the cake.

I'm a little baffled how these people continue to get paying customers, but I guess some people just don't know what their options are.
 

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Iceman again...

Sorry to bring up Iceman again, but this made me laugh so much;

“Dave is very thorough, and doesn’t just do what you say, but makes suggestions. That’s a rarity.”
--Debra Pestrak, Success Unleashed

Wouldn't be much of a designer if he didn't make the odd suggestion!
 
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