Want to see web design gone bad? What happens to a site when change is put in place solely for the sake of change, without regard to usability nor functionality.

Take a look at the new design for http://kijiji.com and the compare it to the Canadian version at http://kijiji.ca

I like the blue background and typefaces on the US site. But everything else was a jump back at least 10 years in web design. The site is no longer dynamic/fluid width. There's no columnar separation of content types (dates run ragged on the right side of listings), there's no way to alter search categories once you've started a search. No advanced search abilities. You can't specify a distance radius from the city you're searching in. Some item links open in the current window, others force open a new window - WTF. Also there are less ways to sort the results list (you can't reverse the date sort).

On the plus side, the actual page for the individual ads looks quite nice.

But the site is so devoid of functionality it's really just a pale ghost compared to the Canadian site.