Speaking of websites, if there's one website I hate, it's the website for Italy's railway company.
Going to the site, I'm faced with an useless "pretty" flash movie, with the possibility to select languages. And a first popup, which not only is annoying as all fuck, it also defeats the purpose of the language selection, as it's Italian-only and specific to Italy.
Moving on, if I pick Italian, I'm faced with another popup, advertising some new service (I forget which, I closed it almost immediately and I'm not masochistic enough to reload, thank you so much), and an absurdly cluttered page, of which the part most people use (the form to check train times) takes up 1/4. The rest is clutter, clutter, clutter. Including a clock that pulls the time from your system clock, is so small it's utterly useless, and isn't even recognizable as a clock at first.
Have I mentioned the form to check train times is horribly broken in anything but IE?
If I pick another language, I get the same page structure, only it's absurdly empty, since all the information on the Italian site is Italy-only. Oh, and the clock is missing, which is a minor improvement.
The exception is the English language page. It has a different layout, which IMHO is much better (simpler and clearer, less cluttered); but it's stupid that a site has the same design everywhere except in a subpage. And the form to check train times seems to be coded differently, I shall have to check it at home to see if it works in Opera. I might start using the English page to check train times, since it has no popups and is much nicer...
[EDIT] It's broken, but much less badly. I can check train times with it if I have the patience to wait for one more page to load to have my results. I can deal with that. [/EDIT]
(I was checking train times because, for the first time, I was so absorbed into what I was doing that I missed the train, incidentally. And I got irked at the site design and decided to ramble.)