There’s an endless array of techniques to make bad web pages. Technical screw ups, abusive unreadability, or just plain bad taste.

As a broad generalization, bad websites try to force your reader to do things in a certain way. Browser window this big! Listen to this music! Navigate using the frames menu! Learn to read green text on purple!

But don’t restrict yourself to the classics — there are always new ways to innovate with badness.

Examples

bad myspace layout — tips from the department of redundant redundancy.
(if you really want to make a gawdawful website, “view source” anywhere on myspace.)

cubists launch unnavigable web site — “You must embrace the idea that the link exists,” said Bernioz, “for once that idea is established, form itself can be forgotten.”

when web pages don’t work — some general advice, aimed at corporate designers.

Web Pages that Suck — pretty self-explanatory.

Warning: these two can take a while to load, and might crash your browser.

bad web page guide — his page demonstrates the classics of painfully bad web techniques.

world’s worst website — worst? i dunno. i kinda like the cowboy. but it is very very bad.