The Bad

McKamey Manor

While not the worst website in the world, McKamey Manor's website leaves a lot to be desired. McKamey Manor is a former haunted house turned psychological torture survival challenge. It started out innocently enough, but fell down a slippery slope as they tried to make the house more and more terrifying each year. Eventually the house was shut down and moved to Tennessee in what was most likely an attempt to flee from tax collectors, and it only exists as a shell of its former self. The website for McKamey Manor now exists as merchandising site for the declining business.

The home page is rather lackluster, with animated text filling the screen in a relatively choppy manner. About a third of the page is just blank white space at the bottom as well. The rest of the pages are messily formatted, possibly in an attempt to avoid repetition, but in this case it hurts more than helps, as the navigation bar is only present on about half the pages and on the others takes the form of a vertical list. Instead of the merchandise button linking directly to the store page, instead it sends you to a page that tells you to follow another link. In some of the pages the background images clash with the color of the text, making things very difficult to read. Overall it is just a mess of a website that reeks of the owner paying the lowest bidder, probably some neighborhood computer nerd, to make it.

I would not recommend anyone visit this website. You'd be better off searching for the linked YouTube videos individually and avoiding the eye strain of looking at this website, even if it does have them linked in the same place. If for some reason you found yourself in need of merchandise it's faster to just search for it on google and select the second result than it is to navigate through an extra page. Surprisingly enough I actually found the mobile site a bit easier on the eyes, although it is still bad. When comparing Microsoft Edge to Firefox, I believe, based on the home page animation, that Firefox loads it just a bit faster, but there are no major differences. As I finish up this blog post I actually remembered a website that I have used in the past that might just be worse than this, but I'll leave that for another blog post.