Ok I want everyone to chime in with their most hated website designs / features.

I'll start:

Rounded corners
Drop shadows
Pinstripe backgrounds

Reflections

pages that dont fit the screen horizontally. even at 1280x1024

We've used rounded corners and reflection here, but we tried not to go over the top like some sites.

Personally I hate any site with TONS of ads, or those annoying Forbes articles that only give you a few seconds on each slide.

Also, any site with bad navigation gets an F in my list.

flash sites : "go back" button doesn't work anymore, one can't save pictures, it takes far toot long to load, and isn't at all scalable to different resolutions.

i really love reflections, if used moderatly like in this site, and rounded corners is so unwindows =)

flash sites i really hate them poping and sounding, dont you hate music in the sites?

or excess in audio effects?

Pop-ups and ads are really annoying especially the pr0n ads on most of the good torrent sites now. I also hate flash websites especially since I can't save pics. I personally like reflections and the rounded corners to an certain extent.

pop ups bad yes ...but pop ups w/ nudity...yikes....theres kids in the room. that and shoot the duck/roach/celebrity/bin laden/ pop ups....oia!

Oh yes, I like all these annoying things.

I've never stopped to think about just how anoying the web is.

My new most annoying "thing" is the phrase ... "Web 2.0"

It makes me want to hit people. I've never heard such nonsense, middle-manager-clueless-halfwit-types love it.

Man i hate those flah ads were you have to shoot or punch something to WIN A PRIZE..woo hoo... man that is crap.

Some flash sites. Ones that take forever to load, have music, are slow. I also hate music that is piped into sites with no easy way to stop it.

Popups, many ads, ugly wallpaper and slow server

www.myspace.com

- annoying flash ads w/ sound (there's one with a bug that you have to kill, you can hear the buzzing, it drives me insane!).

- sites that have enormously long pages you have to scroll down. break it up into a few pages.

- pop ups, and even worse, pop under ads.

- sites that are really slow. but who likes that??

comic sans font
plain white backrouds
all html websites, with nothing interseting or hard to do

Websites that are made only for internet explorer.

yeah lol
websites with only one color

I hate websites that look like they were made in 1995. Sites that have animated backgrounds, awkward color schemes, oversized text, too many animated gifs all over the place, and random marquee effects that really have no use.

Sometimes people overkill a design in a sad attempt to make it seem like they are html-savvy. This happens all too often on MySpace profiles.

A newer trend that I absolutely hate are ads that have audio to accompany space-hogging flash banners. "Smash the buzzing fly." How about I smash the face of the guy who made that ad?

i agree with every thing u just said

agreed, those are one of the most annoying things i can think of having on a webpage. only thing that might beat those out are the ads that follow your cursor around and try to get it so when you click you go to the linked web page. if i ever find the guy that came up with those...

i hate all of those moving ads

they just get in the way

I agree with most of the above, only I like rounded corners and a bit of shadows. I don't mind white backgrounds.

What i do hate are backgrounds with a 'fixed' size, which awfully tile/repeat when viewed on a higher resolution than the one of the webdesigner. Fluo/Neon colors. Ugly menu's/navigation. Webpages with more ads than content. (Big) Banners.

I also hate it when the site's content open in a popup.

this site has round corners and a backshadow!!!
but i think its great!
just look at the defaul skin name

I agree with myspace.com as being a shining example.

First off, the site itself is a giant ad with some user content. Then you get the profiles with bad color matching, backgrounds, tons of music, and streaming movie upon movie upon movie all over the sites.

o yeah
i hate people who suck at it, but try to customize myspace anyway

Sites with sound, sites with tons of moving banners (sortof like myspace) and some sites with rounded corners (it really depends)

Rapidshare's time delay for free users...

ALL MYSPACE TEMPLATES

The fly ad has drove me crazy. The moving part isn't nearly bad as the ringing "buzz" noise. What frustrates me is how you have to "zap" the fly just to get it to stop. I've about quit going to that site due to every page having a buzzing fly.

Pop-ups...unwanted adds

i know, my parrents never had a problem with me using torrents, but now they hate them because of p0rno

i hate odd non color co ordinated bg images ( you know the odd teals, and greens ), the Fing buzzing zap flash ad. Embedded music that has no controls, wait........... all embedded music. Oh yes, large animated gif images.

the fly ad, any ad with music and sites that look like they are designed on windows 95

someone here should make a website that has all this stuff people hate

Sure here you go

www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/

lol, i could have gone into a seizure from the bright colors. OMG, did i hear a embedded midi song?!!

I agree with all said..but I am quite proud of my myspace

Anyone who tries to imitate 2advanced's work. Actually, I'm tired of 2advanced work, too.

may be i hate music in midi... bad bad midi sounds... ... lebedeva i hate too...

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RAmen.

That, 1) websites that still use tables for design purposes, and 2) websites using frames.

I hate; tables, frames, too many images, javascript, flash

I like: xhtml, css

What's wrong with JavaScript? As long as it's properly put to use (E.g. using AJAX for submittal purposes), I only see it as a fantastic ally.

I hate websites that looked like they walked straight out of the 80's, with squarish everythings and fixed width fonts. Bach.

I hate websites that put ads at the top banner, at the side, and in between every important thing that you look at. I also hate sites that have typos. In my opinion, Google is a very well designed site and I'm still not sick of looking at the same thing even though I've been using it for years.

correct

For all the people that don't like ad's on websites:

Download this for Firefox

It will take all the ad's out of websites. Its nice when you go to an uploader site and not have tons and tons of ad's everywhere.

I dislike sites that do wierd crap and that have images that are pulled from 3 different websites. Or use scripts that mess with your browser, or sites that are on freaking slow servers... 30sec page loads mean your site has to much crap or your server is overloaded

Dice

now if only that was for safari...

Stop using safari damit just kidding

Dice

IE only websites.