How bad can a website get?

[mdlbear]

At least this bad (from theferrett)

Please bear in mind that this is not a joke -- this monstrosity belongs to some poor slob who's actually trying to sell a service! Right.

Comments

[jilara.livejournal.com]

Wow, this reminds me of a romance literary site I once logged into. The background screen for the stories was red roses. And yes, the typeface was black. And she actually put up poetry using some sort of Java aplet that made the lines wave around amid flowers.

I wrote to the site owner, and pointed out that the "features" made her site unreadable, and she got all offended on me. Missing the point entirely? Oh yes.

Why do people think these things are desirable? (Interesting how "romance" seems to be the theoretical theme of both bad examples.)