*Please pardon the un-styled mess why I am rethinking and re-designing my blog!*
CALLING ALL DESIGNERS WITH WEB SKILLZ AND NON-EXISTANT WEB SKILLZ!
Design the ugliest website you can fathom and win some sweet prizes! How ugly you say? Uglier than this site that i blogged about a while ago.
I’m talkin animated gifs, midis, frames, the whole 9 yards. UGLY UGLY UGLY!!! I want to see gawdy, hurt your eyes and never make you want to look at a computer screen ugly.
Why in the world would any sane designer want to do this? Because its fun to break the rules. So go ahead – open a free angelfire web hosting account (bonus points for pop up ads) and uglify to your hearts content.
The prizes include:
1 gig iPod shuffle from Zurb.com
1 year premium membership from Aremysitesup.com – site monitoring service that emails and texts you when your site is down. (from Chris at CSS-tricks)
Premium wordpress theme of your choice from Danny @ WordPress-designers.com
A copy of Rockstar WordPress Designer from Collis @Envato!
1 year Flickr Pro membership from Rodger @Styletime
We have a great group of all star designers and bloggers to judge your ugly sites: Chris Spooner from Spoon Graphics, Adelle Charles from Fuel your Creativity, Andy Sowards from Andy Sowards Daily Nerdy Links, and Gram Smith from Im Just Creative.
Once you are finished you can head on over here and submit your ugly site!
or use this little linky here: http://nebrow.wufoo.com/forms/ugly-website-contest/
Deadline is March 1st. Sites will be judges soon after this and winners will notified asap!
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Timothy Long says:
I'm going to have fun with this.
February 4th, 2009 at 2:05 am
christy says:
If I had less integrity, I would just copy this site and enter it as my own: http://ux1.eiu.edu/~djbraswell/
February 4th, 2009 at 8:19 am
John says:
Wow, this is certainly a unique contest. I’ve just submitted my ugly site – good luck to everyone who’s participating.
February 4th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Ben Jacob says:
This is crazy !! But awesome concept
February 4th, 2009 at 8:54 am
John says:
Sounds like a blast! I know there is much worse out there, but I just ran into this bad site.
http://www.somasound.org/
February 4th, 2009 at 9:11 am
David Millar says:
Sounds like a good time waiting to happen. I’ve created a directory in my old Geocities account, found some banner and counter sites, and cracked open Microsoft Word and I’m ready to go!
February 4th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Jeannette says:
haha this sounds like a good way to relieve stress
February 4th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Ryan Barr says:
Way, way honorable mention: http://yvettesbridalformal.com/
February 4th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Matt says:
Question: Are group entries accepted?
My buddy and I wanted to collaborate on this (it’s a pretty big project, after all). If it helps, we’re both named Matt, so it’s kind of like just one person submitting.
February 4th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Conner Jones says:
Damn David Millar, me and you are on the same path. Right when I read this article, I instantly thought of geocities and the trash they let people publish on the internet.
February 4th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Morgan Grimshaw says:
Found a site that could qualify, without the call to action… http://www.willysenmarjetten.be/
February 4th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Kumail.H.T says:
Crap, I am not capable of winning this contest.
If I knew about the ipod in advance, i never would have learnt webdesign.
February 4th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
David Perel says:
Excellent idea!
February 7th, 2009 at 6:34 am
Schmidt says:
ALVIE! Let the worst designer win!
Good sport, good sport.
http://www.xplosive-coderz.com/fawkitsugly/
Rrrrrrrrrrr…..
February 7th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Greg says:
I do some business with Chinese manufacturers, and this was sent to me as a “chrismas gift” this year.
http://zhufu.cc62.com/jieri/1225/sd/index.html?stra=Misha
February 10th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
JohnONolan says:
@Schmidt thanks for crashing my browser you a$$hole. The name of the game is “UGLY websites”, not “pages that send you into an endless javascript loop when you try to close the tab”.
February 11th, 2009 at 8:53 am
Grace says:
I can’t take credit for this gem. But I think this deserves some sort of award. I am going to tell them I will fix for the greater good of the world.
http://www.miracledentalcare.com/
February 12th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Schmidt says:
@JohnONolan
The interpretation of what is ugly varies from person to person. When did you become the judge?
Such websites that loop you / are maliciously irritating is what I define as ugly and indeed nasty.
The fact that it pissed you off just showed that the site did its purpose. And well.
. Anyway, come on, no need to get angry at anyone, calling them a$$holes (dollarholes?). It’s an ugly website contest, not a user-friendly contest.
To cite: “Why in the world would any sane designer want to do this? Because its fun to break the rules.”
February 16th, 2009 at 1:18 am
Bugsy says:
Awesome! great idea.
I just hope nobody wants to submit my current portfolio. Ha ha
February 16th, 2009 at 10:46 am
Shin says:
you folks posting some links actually gave them good hits and statistic after… quite some years
February 17th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Jake Mates says:
None of us can beat this one:
http://havenworks.com/index.htm
February 19th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Jake Mates says:
None of us can beat this one:
http://havenworks.com/
February 19th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Ivan says:
havenworks.com , I love it, vertical grid layout, fancy …
March 5th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Ivan says:
lol, just looked at alexa rank for havenworks.com
Can’t believe it, impossible
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/havenworks.com
March 5th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Darren says:
here is an ugly polished site.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:33 am
lektire says:
oh i can’t trust how design can be bad rofl
thanks for sharing that ugly sites
March 20th, 2010 at 2:43 am