Worst website in the world?

Now, the badrash.com is no masterpiece of design or originality. But every now and then, I stumble upon a website so poorly designed, so badly implemented, so unintentionally awful that it deserves attention. Call it snobbery. Because that's what it is.

FVA Management. Hive of design consultants, life coaches and er... site hosting, FVA is a classic of early web design. This is one of those websites clearly run by one man who can do eveything. A bit like my website is. Take a look at FVA - try it on for size... see if you can spot:

• Images instead of text, making it impossible for anyone with special accessibility requirements (or mobile browsers/text browsers) to browse the site. cf: badrash.com
• Broken links. Easily done? Yes, when you confuse "" with "/". The classic 'slash' mix-up... something easily remedied by testing your site before (or even after) uploading.
• Flashing/rotating images (the animated GIF nightmare) which seem custom made to induce epilepsy and/or flashbacks from Glastonbury 1999.
• Fake webcounter. This classic feature of the shit website looks like a real counter, but in fact isn't one! A work of pure genius. I sat here for 25 minutes waiting for the numbers to stop spinning.

And much, much more. FVA Management wins this snob's certificate of achievement in the creation of bad and ugly websites. The best thing? He's a web designer! I found out about him because he designed the site for gemma's company. A site which I shall be redesigning. In my own image.

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