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Author Topic: What is the worst thing about website designs? Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-13-2005 01:35 AM                     What is the most annoying thing to you? Popups? Advertisements? Really tiny navigational text links? Flash? My personal hatred is websites with sound.  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 02-13-2005 01:48 AM                        Web sites that have some sort of Flash trailer or what not playing and there is no 'skip' button for you to click so you dont have to watch it. Good example: the Dreamworks exhibitor relations site has one on there now for the Ring 2 promotion. grrrr pop-ups come in at a close second.  |  IP: Logged Nate Lehrke Master Film Handler Posts: 396 From: Denver, CO Registered: Oct 2002 posted 02-13-2005 01:51 AM                     Being a dial-up user, I hate sites designed for highspeed. I mean, sites that take me three minutes to load becuase they have 20 photos and a flash intro. But I am just complaining. It would just be stupid to cater your whole site to dial-up users since "highspeed" will be "normal speed" in just a few years.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 02-13-2005 01:53 AM                        I hate sites that don't have me on them.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-13-2005 02:06 AM                        Flash doesn't bother me, because I don't install the plugin. I ignore web sites that aren't usable without it. Popups don't bother me because I turn off popups. What does bother me: Anything not usable in Lynx (unless obviously image-oriented or something like that). Anything that depends on Javascript for basic functionality. Anything that doesn't use standards-compliant HTML. Anything with blinking text or animated GIFs. Anything with banner ads, especially if they are animated, slow-loading, or large in size. Anything that crashes my browser. Anything that requires "free registration" to view content (e.g. New York Times). Anything that requires a specific HTTP_REFERER (umm...Brad...hello) to get to a specific page. Anything where "web site" or "Web site" is spelled "website" (last I checked, "website" isn't a word). In short, basically every commercial web site at the moment.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-13-2005 02:17 AM                     HTTP_REFERER on websites kick ass!  |  IP: Logged James Faber Film Handler Posts: 66 From: Des Moines, Iowa , USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-13-2005 03:21 AM                        Scott, I think you got about all of them.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-13-2005 04:33 AM                     Nope, he missed intro screens that do nothing but welcome you to the website, then you have to click through them to get where you wanted to go.  |  IP: Logged James Faber Film Handler Posts: 66 From: Des Moines, Iowa , USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-13-2005 04:41 AM                        Yeah, and stupid disclaimers!  |  IP: Logged David Buckley Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 525 From: Oxford, N. Canterbury, New Zealand Registered: Aug 2004 posted 02-13-2005 06:08 AM                        Clever website designers that make right-click stuff hard, like popping up a message box, or like search results on this very site where right-click, open on new tab from the search results sends you to the home page...  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-13-2005 06:10 AM                     That's because you are using an evil browser. Click here to fix that.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-13-2005 07:52 AM                        Sites which won't work without setting cookies and which don't give you a reasonable explanation of why they need to set cookies. And ones which invite third parties to set tracking cookies which most people who don't use Firefox would have no idea are coming in annoy me especially.  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 02-13-2005 10:20 AM                        The most notorious sites I hate for many of the reasons posted here are official "websites" (he said with tongue sticking out at Scott Norwood) for major movie releases. How much flash crap do I have to go through to download a fricking movie poster? So although I link those sites to showtimes for customers to reference, I usually go to Yahoo! Movies for images and posters...  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-13-2005 11:14 AM                     Ads that use Java to "Fly in" from the edge of the browser are especially annoying. I also hate the new flash banners that contain movie trailers built in.  |  IP: Logged Ken Layton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1452 From: Olympia, Wash. USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 02-13-2005 12:41 PM                     I hate Flash crap. Popups aren't too bad since I have Popup Stopper, but those damn Pop-unders keep getting thru (fastclick.net).  |  IP: Logged

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