The Best and The Worst....

We had a meeting this morning at work and came away with the assignment to submit our 2 favorite websites and 1 that we consider to be the worst. That task is more tough than it sounds. I also am trying to balance it with our needs, but in general what is good/bad. Instantly I knew there were a few I go to often that just irritate me every time I'm there but I couldn't quite remember which ones they were....until I quit looking and started doing my own thing. Then I remembered. I checked the kids' hockey schedule...grrrrrrr. I went to pay a bill...grrrrrrr. OH I HATE THOSE SITES! Check.

Its really easy to pick out ones you hate. Not so easy on ones you love because they are easy to use. They don't cause your blood to boil, irritation factor to increase or banging on the keyboard and general yelling at your screen to happen. I don't know that I'm looking at any one feature as much as I'm looking for ones that just plain make my life easier. I am not a patient person when it comes to things like this. I rather hate when I can't find information. I had to think about what sites I actually GO to rather than just search on google with "site:xyz.com" in my query.

Before I go any further, I will 100% admit my blog is kinda sucky in the layout department. I like my wordpress blogs better and may move this one. So go ahead and criticize, I'm good with it :)

My task was actually more than the 3 sites, I am to find others' opinions and try to scour thoughts from outside of our very small group (and some other things but no need to list them all here). So I did what anyone would do who had a task like this, I asked twitter and Facebook! Now these are not all my entries. Actually, I personally only put 2 on but I tend to agree with most of these.

So far this is where we stand.....

Best! (in no particular order except what I wrote in my notebook as I saw them)

• igoogle
• apple
• google
• cnet
• ebay
• verizon
• amazon
• google shopping
• Kohls (unless you're paying a bill)
• Victoria's Secret (except search drill-downs)
• Ben the Bodyguard
• jquery
• woot!
• craigslist
• SearchTempest

Irritating and Worst! (some are just irritating, some are just horrid, I'll let you decide which is which)

• Toys R Us
• Hapico
• Penn State
• Centre Daily Times
• Crailtap
• Yvettes Bridal Formal
• Disney
• Havenworks
• SCYIHA ---> A LeagueLineup site which actually has a seemingly nice site.
• Reliance Bank --> I HATE having to search for how/where to do things.
• Be the Bodyguard
• Allegheny Power

So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add to this list!!!