Oldest/crappiest website around today

[Frimley111R]

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

To say it's a 2 star Michelin restaurant this site is hopeless.

http://www.restaurantsatbains.com/

Not old/crappy but great example of design over function.

[Pie-n-Peys]

I use this quite regularly for work purposes and it looks terrible.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/notices/

[jammy-git]

A lot of these fall into the "Brutalist" web design trend which is becoming (slightly) more popular nowadays.

Craigslist too.

[weeboot]

Pie-n-Peys said:

I use this quite regularly for work purposes and it looks terrible.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/notices/

Wow, built in Frontpage by the looks of things!

[DapperDanMan]

sgtBerbatov said:

An old website doesn't mean its dog st.

The company I work for developing websites has a st website, but I built it 18 months ago. Why is it st? Well the navigation is bks, it was designed by a print designer, not one stakeholder other than myself had any idea bout user flow and/or user experience, and not one stakeholder listened to me. I'm just the coding bh that gets it done.

The Berkshire Hathaway website, when all is said and done, is a good website because it's at least simple to navigate and know what's going on.

A website can be dripping in the latest fashion trends of big bold fonts and lots of pictures, but it's utter garbage if you can't navigate it properly.

Full disclosure: Can't share my work's website, as 1) I'm ashamed of it and 2) It'd identify me fairly quickly.

Go on admit it, you are Ling https://www.lingscars.com/




How about https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/

It works but somewhat dated. Take a look at https://web.archive.org to see websites over the years.

Edited by DapperDanMan on Monday 22 January 15:40

[sgtBerbatov]

DapperDanMan said:

sgtBerbatov said:

An old website doesn't mean its dog st.

The company I work for developing websites has a st website, but I built it 18 months ago. Why is it st? Well the navigation is bks, it was designed by a print designer, not one stakeholder other than myself had any idea bout user flow and/or user experience, and not one stakeholder listened to me. I'm just the coding bh that gets it done.

The Berkshire Hathaway website, when all is said and done, is a good website because it's at least simple to navigate and know what's going on.

A website can be dripping in the latest fashion trends of big bold fonts and lots of pictures, but it's utter garbage if you can't navigate it properly.

Full disclosure: Can't share my work's website, as 1) I'm ashamed of it and 2) It'd identify me fairly quickly.

Go on admit it, you are Ling https://www.lingscars.com/




How about https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/

It works but somewhat dated. Take a look at https://web.archive.org to see websites over the years.

Edited by DapperDanMan on Monday 22 January 15:40

I can neither confirm nor deny my involvment on that website.

Although it was well funny watching the webcam and seeing their office, pressing an alert button and seeing the lights flash.

Did that numerous times until they turned it off.

[ecs]

Think this one's been the same since the late 90's - does the job though

http://www.avbrief.com

[seiben]

I rather like that the old Thrust SSC website was frozen:

http://www.thrustssc.com/thrustssc.html

[jamgy]

This is a bit of classic

spacejam

[Gareth1974]

For enthusiasts of the Nargis Kebab:

http://www.nargiskebab.co.uk/main.htm

[covmutley]

Ross1988 said:

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
Considering how much the company is worth, the website it diabolical.

But given the way Buffet thinks and operates it is absolutely perfect.

[Integroo]

kiethton said:

Ling's.....

If one thing belongs back in the early naughties.....

https://www.lingscars.com/

I bloody love it.

[Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah]

Frimley111R said:

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

To say it's a 2 star Michelin restaurant this site is hopeless.

http://www.restaurantsatbains.com/

Not old/crappy but great example of design over function.

Apologies if I had a brain fart and read / as or, when it was seemingly meant as and.

[Biker's Nemesis]

Bandages.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53732/

[Hoofy]

http://www.themow.co.uk/index.html

[technodup]

dave_s13 said:

Ross1988 said:

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

Considering how much the company is worth, the website it diabolical.

Lol...that is complete dogst.

I like it, not for what is says but what it doesn't say.

It's basically one of the richest guys in the world saying a big fk off to spending money on what he clearly sees as unnecessary fluff. Which for someone investing your money isn't a bad thing. And he's several billion up on me so who am I to argue anyway?

[technodup]

Frimley111R said:

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

To say it's a 2 star Michelin restaurant this site is hopeless.

http://www.restaurantsatbains.com/

Not old/crappy but great example of design over function.

Someone's charged him many thousands of pounds to go crazy with the design and left him with a barely functional mess of a site. It's so bad I'd give up and go elsewhere. Quickly.

The type at the top of the page, 10 years old, basic are still very common in traditional small business. They were sold it once and don't see the need to do it again! In a lot of cases they're missing an opportunity because if they have a site that hasn't been touched in a decade you can be sure they're not using many other modern ways of doing business. Probably still using faxes.

[jammy-git]

That site was made about 3 years ago apparently.

[CAPP0]

technodup said:

Frimley111R said:

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

To say it's a 2 star Michelin restaurant this site is hopeless.

http://www.restaurantsatbains.com/

Not old/crappy but great example of design over function.

Someone's charged him many thousands of pounds to go crazy with the design and left him with a barely functional mess of a site. It's so bad I'd give up and go elsewhere. Quickly.

The type at the top of the page, 10 years old, basic are still very common in traditional small business. They were sold it once and don't see the need to do it again! In a lot of cases they're missing an opportunity because if they have a site that hasn't been touched in a decade you can be sure they're not using many other modern ways of doing business. Probably still using faxes.

I hadn't heard of the restaurant and after looking at the website for 10 seconds I'm (a) still none the wiser and (b) disinclined to keep clicking in the hope that something 9Room 7? The Lounge?) will enlighten me.

If it had something obvious which said "We are a {cuisine} restaurant in {location} and if you click here you can see a sample menu", it might help. It's actually an intensely-irritating website which tells you nothing more than "we think we're really cool and that's enough for us".

[warch]

http://www.mark-1.co.uk/Professionals/

As a fan of great telly I often visit this wonderfully old hat husband and wife run website. Judging by the update notes it's over twenty years old.