You Chose the Worst of the Worst!

After a grueling, months-long battle of the baddies, the credit union with the worst web site in all the land has been chosen out of 35 horrific entries.

International Harvester Employee Credit Union has won a whole new web site complete with WebiDiz, the amazingly easy new web site management system we created especially for credit unions.

The emergency web site makeover team at iDiz Incorporated is already working with the marketing and IT departments at IHECU to design and build a world-class new site.

Congratulations, IHECU! We can't wait to unveil your brand-new site!

 

Gallery of Shame

1. Our homepage has more items on it than my grandma’s fridge.
2. We have multiple pages with the same information and members still have a hard time finding what they need.
3. Our Online Banking looks circa 1982.
4. It’s a long, tedious process to update the site because it was designed by one company and hosted by another.
5. It’s just old and outdated. Please pick us – they cut our budget and I don’t know when a website re-do will ever happen!

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The Summit Federal Credit Union

The main swirl graphic looks like crap. It’s all done in FrontPage (need I say more?). Poor navigation (you have to scoll down the pages to find anything). Just nothing too exciting about it (and it was just updated-new colors, graphics etc in July/Aug 08-but still looks like it’s from 1988). Oh and apparently there’s people who can’t read text in the color blue (oops!).

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SUN Credit Union

Design is about form and function. And while our site is only a few years old, we’ve quickly outgrown both. This site design replaced another 5 year-old design, and with that we lost nearly all our content management function. Some simple copy changes require hours of coding from our Web master. We know we have other issues related to browser compatibility in this environment – talk about brand inconsistencies! The only nice thing I can say about this current web site is in regards to our Google search engine. We use it often to find where we hid the information.

I shudder to think what impression we leave with members and site surfers upon landing at purdueefcu.com. Counting the menu links alone (not including the linked graphics and banner ads) there are over 100 different places to click. Where do you begin? Menus, menus and more menus… Even the Web site design team has been quoted as saying, “I can never remember where to click to find xxx”… we don’t even know where we buried the information. That’s just it – there is a hidden treasure to be found in this site, but we need help uncovering it. I know there is a simple, attractive web site to be found that truly represents the credit union we aim to be.

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Purdue Employees Federal Credit Union

It needs updating and I am not web site trained. I need creative people to help me.

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Bellwood Federal Credit Union

It’s outdated, hard to read, difficult to find information. It doesn’t have that hook or eye catcher to make people want to navigate it.

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Lakeshore Federal Credit Union

Hard to update
No service from our provider
Outdated information
Needs to have a different layout
Contrained homepage
Hard to navigate to some areas
Disclosures are out of date
No flow to pertinant areas

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TLC Community Credit Union

It’s outdated. It’s not user-friendly. We’ve tried to enhance it but it’s still blah. It needs a face lift, it needs video. It needs to win!! Members have to navigate all over the place to find information. It’s just stale! And desperately needs help.

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Century Federal Credit Union

Where to start? It could be that the colors are so dark I get depressed everytime I look at it. Or that the information is so dry that I fall asleep before I can move off the landing page. HELP US PLEASE! What’s sad is that we are really way cooler than our website shows. We have a lot of good things going on, and this just doesn’t do us justice.

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Bessemer System Federal Credit Union

It is very spread out and looks very unprofessional.

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Southwest Louisiana Credit Union

The website is confusing. It is not member friendly and the formatting is very outdated. Members spend most of their time hunting and pecking for simple information and/or Log In access.

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Sears Federal Credit Union

The home page looks so cluttered and it’s hard to maneuver through the pages. Help us to LOVE it not hate it!

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North Star Community Credit Union

Plain
Home Grown sight needs to be brought current

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Dowell Federal Credit Union

OHMYGOSH.
Just take a look. It is so old. Digital Insight is our host. I threw this up in a weeks time about five years ago and it shows. It is so blah, no bells or whistles. It needs alot of work. We recently hired our NEW CEO, who is quite technology savy, and we have been make small steps. But it is in desperate need. There is so many great CU sites out there. Awhile ago I started a file of CU websites that I think are so much better than ours, because I had so many dreams of redoing our website someday. But, with your help maybe my dream will come true!

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Mendo Lake Credit Union

When was the last time you seen a picture on the front of a website of eggs and money in a nest? Or, how about the fact that our current marketing firm cant seem to update the newsletter less than a year later!

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Freedom 1st Credit Union

Not interactive at all. Provides only minimal information for members.

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Dakota Plains Federal Credit Union

Beginning a comprehensive rebranding of our CU and the site doesn’t fit! Color is off, and design and readability need vast improvement! Outdated background must GO! Please help!

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Singing River FCU

While it may be esthetically okay, I hate the fact that a visitor has to sometimes dig several layers deep to find what he/she seeks.

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America’s Credit Union

Too many different greens, color’s all wrong

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A+FCU

This site was created prior to my arrival here at First Financial. It is basically just a library of information and not a tool. While I’ve tried to make some improvements to the functionality of the Loan Source area – it is still horrible. We are also limited on what we can do with our hosting provider and their so-called content management software which limits us from being able to make our Web site useful. It’s also hard to control others from “dumping” too much on the home page – now it’s a complete mess…help!!Visit Website →

First Financial FCU

Boring, lackluster, inconsistent,
not interactive in any way, no real call to action, branded but not good enough, and in no way does it inspire potential members to say, “Yes! I want to Credit Union with them!”
I’m nearly begging, pleading, shouting at all those who will listen…please pick our site! :)

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East Idaho Credit Union

Our site needs to be updated!

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Northwoods Credit Union

It is out of date. When you click on loans tab it has a gray background and a picture of a kid from the 80’s. The whole website is like that!Visit Website →

Credit Union One

It is impossible to find anything on our site and I work here. I can only imagine how our members feel.

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Educational Employees Credit Union

The organization, the layout.

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University of Louisiana FCU

It might look pretty at first glance, but it uses too many graphics and flash animation. There isn’t much room for text and the navigation bars uses ancient flash files that take hours to modify even the simpliest change. Our site doesn’t sell anything and is hard to navigate. You can’t print any pages of our site because of the background – it prints through on printed pages and you can’t see the text. Our site needs a major overhall.

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Discovery Federal Credit Union

Outdated, unorganized, difficult to navigate.Visit Website →

Keys Federal Credit Union

Its boring, out of date, and does not have convient floating tabs to find information fast and all at one glance.

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Pinal County Federal Credit Union

Old coding, restrictive layout due to use of tables, graphic intense takes too much time to load, cluttered, very boxy and doesn’t flow very well… The biggest thing is that it has SO much on it, SO many pages, you don’t know where to go to look for anything!

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Hawaii Community Federal Credit Union

We started a rebranding process with a logo redesign. Logo looks great now but now the rest of our website fails in comparison. Granted when I first came on board it was a flash page in black and white and couldn’t be updated…it’s come a long way. But, it just doesn’t project professional, trustworthy, modern, or anything that we’re trying to change our image too. We’ve been coined the Ghetto Credit Union by some of our members – trying to move away from that, like FAR away from that. Hoping a new website design will help.

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TEFCU

Our site looks like it was designed in 1970. There is nothing interesting, fun, or attractive about it. It is very factual and not at all engaging. It gives you no reason to visit it a second time.Visit Website →

International Harvester Employee Credit Union

It’s very bland and hard to navigate around in. The defaulted pictures are like from the 80s! There’s no energy or excitement on it, it’s VERY VERY boring. It definitely doesn’t reflect the staff and the Members’ enthusiasm when they visit our credit union. We are very much more ALIVE than the website.

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Credit Union of Southern California

EVERYTHING about it……

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Central Florida Postal Credit Union

I hate all the banner ads on the homepage. The content pages are not exciting.

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First American CU

Poorly organized,too many pages,not enough pictures, no social media links,crappy colors, not enough SEO,info is buried too deepVisit Website →

Idaho State University Federal Credit Union

The site is ugly and inconsistent. It lacks information and what it does have is confusing to find.

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KIT FCU