In case you want your website to be really, really bad, here are some tips from the Talance blog, at 15 Ways to Create a Horrible Non-profit Website. Here are a few of the 15:
- Let everyone on your staff and board give feedback on your design, and apply everyone's preferences.
- Put someone in charge who doesn't care about the website.
- Make your mission statement about six paragraphs long and put it front and center of the homepage.
- Hide the donation forms. It also helps to make it really hard to use.
- Don't apply any kind of strategy to the site. Just throw it up and assume you'll get support.
- Put up a bunch of unrelated pages with an unclear and incoherent message.
- Design for your board members (or yourself) rather than your audience.
- Make your decision on a web developer based on cost alone, assuming you don't always get what you pay for.
Go read them all.