Good Sites vs Bad Sites

Websites,
 whilst mostly whether you consider a website to be good or bad is based on personal preference, there are somethings that every website needs to be considered at least adequate:

Working features
 A reason for being
And a good design

One of the most annoying things about a website, is having a feature that doesn't work. Whether it be a button, a link or  widget. Nothing angers a visitor more than something completely pointless.

Another thing a good website needs is a reason for being. Having a website that is completely pointless and useless is tremendously stupid. Or having a website that does everything another website already does again is completely pointless.
If you intend to make a website you better have a good idea of what you are going to do with it.

And finally a good design is crucial. Without a website that is pleasing to the eye and easy to navigate no one will be interested. You may have the best reason for creating a website but if people can't figure out how to use it... They won't!


Good Sites:

In my personal opinion an example of a good website is Deviantart.com. Although there are disputes about it's community the design for the site itself isn't that bad. And no one can deny the number of people that go on that site helps to prove that this site has it's good points. It was one of the first and most popular art sharing sites on the web.
The layout is fairly simple to grasp and mostly everything on there does exactly what it is supposed to do. All in all not a bad site.


Bad Sites:

I could list a million bad sites, some simply because I don't like them personally, but there are some that just don't deserve to be called websites. Filled with spam, broken links and just terrible layout and designs.
But I have chosen to share one that most people with have experienced.... Facebook.

Now I do not deny that this site is hugely popular and has many good points just as deviantart, But the millions of spam features, the ads, the spam emails, and constant changing of the layout confuses and frustrates many of the sites users.

Whatever your preferences no one can deny that with websites spam and constant changes to the layout that don't make sense and are filled with bugs are not what the ideal website should consist of.