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In Defense of Bizarre Websites

This car leasing company's site can best be described as late-’90s GeoCities page, designed by a disgraced clown.
Ling's Cars owner Ling Valentine has one of the strangest websites, but that's part of why she's been successful.
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One of the best websites ever made is for a small car-leasing company in England. Seriously, take a look: LingsCars.com. It breaks every conceivable rule for “good” web design and is borderline painful to look at. It’s a work of art.

Its aesthetic can best be described as late-’90s GeoCities page, designed by a disgraced clown after ingesting a pillowcase full of LSD. The layout is crowded and confusing. There are multiple fonts in bright colors, some of them flashing. GIFs of cats and dogs scurry across the page. A small video auto-plays, featuring random karaoke.

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