View Full Version : What common website feature do you hate the most?
Ghandi Eximius
10-03-2002, 11:41 AM
Everyone has their pet peives about web pages, whats yours?
Dynasty
10-03-2002, 01:20 PM
If I listed them all the page would take an hour to load. :p
But one of the main ones that I see way too much is a stupid large logo image taking up about 1\3rd of the screen. And many sites do it too.
Ghandi Eximius
10-03-2002, 03:27 PM
ya thats deffinantly a bummer. My biggest peive is under construction sites...if you spend time on making the underconstruction page, then why not post a litited version of the upcoming site (or not post at all until your done); and if you spend no time on the underconstruction page than it a poor misrepresentation of your site and isn't informational...god I have under construction pages
scotttyz
10-04-2002, 04:12 PM
1st) Flash that takes 5 minutes to load on DSL
2nd) unneeded (most of them) cookies
3rd) pop-(anywhere's) ads (thank the lord for Mozilla)
Popups/Cookies/ monster_banner_ads/ Poorly_design_website/ Websites_that_steal_focus/ Images_that_are_large/Poor_navigation/ Porn_Links/ Links_to_no_place_I_would_not_go_to "In the first place"/ etc.
I can deal with the bad colors, acceptance to that is just not important anymore.
And code snippers that snag without leaving my name in the code. :mad:
See below for more details...http://developers.evrsoft.com/forum/images/icons/icon13.gif
BoR|S
10-05-2002, 04:40 AM
Flash ad layer that you can't close until it is finished to play.
Popups.
Broken links.
"This website is optimized for Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher".
"Don't click here".
Popups
Last upadted: [javascript]
Ghandi Eximius
10-05-2002, 09:00 AM
Originally posted by BoR|S
"This website is optimized for Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher".
"Don't click here".
I hate those a whole mess...especiallyy the "Don't click here", thats horrible...
David R.
10-08-2002, 05:41 AM
I hate all of the Flash ads just blinking or even spreading 'cross the major part of the screen, freezing up my Internet viewer until they're done :mad: and saying nothing but "Click me for more info"...
I hate pop-ups, which work with any kind of client-side script to calculate their size according to the content - resulting in awfull loss of my expensive time (dial-up connection)
I hate websites with strange/crazy colors causing bilious attack and destroing ones eyes!!!
I hate... do I have to work it all out here? :D
Yeah have to agree on that the weird looking flash intro. That just sit there and the whole time you sit there and wait. Then wondering why the damn thing took so long loading when all they have is a mere looking text like swish thing that goes on?
Man I hate that...
I'd like to say this message thread rocks!! I can complain about pretty much all of this stuff.
LOL :D
Flogg
10-09-2002, 11:30 AM
One thing I hate the most is websites that have no reason. Sites that people put things on that don't say anything that anyone wants to here like this site: http://user1.7host.com/sadiablo. It's just a waste of space that could be used for something good.
DarkSloth
10-09-2002, 07:31 PM
What I hate most of all is when they want to change your cursor... I HATE it.
And those sites that have a message trailing the cursor... EVIL!:mad:
Who inventen the Flash? That guy should be in jail.
Who inventen the Popup? That guy should be in jail.
Who inventen the Applescript? That guy should be in jail.
Who inventen the search Cookie? That guy should be in jail.
Evilpoke
10-11-2002, 06:52 AM
Most definately its popup adds! :mad:
pixelwitz
11-05-2002, 07:48 AM
pop-ups.
Pop-ups of any kind and pop-ups of all kinds, and that most definately includes those long drawn out flash overlays that practically play a short feature length film before they're done with you.
If I didn't didn't expressly open it, I don't want to see it.
Zero Angel
11-05-2002, 11:33 AM
-Ads that follow you as you scroll down the page and ads that overlap everything until you click on it.
-Unskippable flash intros.
-Websites that are not content with either popups or large banner ads, but rather prefer to bombard you with both.
-5 second button mouseOver sounds on a large TOC.
-Animated backgrounds.
-Flashing ads.
-Pages that are fixed at a 640 width (probably made with FrontPage)
-Popup messages and alert sounds when you right click.
-Bitmap images.
-<blink>
-Deceptive ads that look like search windows and forms, but are actually links.
-Overuse of 'kewl' words such as biz and e-anything.
pixelwitz
11-05-2002, 08:21 PM
Those stupid javascript cursers that have words, letters or numbers spiraling all around your curser.
And as pop-ups go(which I hate anyway), the detestable ones that position the window such that the "X" is hidden off the corner of your browser to keep you from making one simple click to close it.
.wav files that you can't turn off.
Why do people build websites with annoying features anyway? Do they suppose that their content is so irresistable that you will return inspite of the nonsense.
Dynasty
11-06-2002, 05:39 AM
They do it because they think it is cool.
pezland
11-06-2002, 12:24 PM
Embedded midis, worse if the console is hidden.
Splash pages(!!!).
Popup windows on exiting a page.
yor feix
11-06-2002, 02:43 PM
i hate these entry-pages with lots of big pics and only "clicktoenter" content:mad:
its even worse when there is an unskipable flash-intro that loads and loads and loads.....:verymad:
Delicates
11-20-2002, 06:52 AM
1. Pop-ups.
2. Embedded audio.
3. Dosens of animated GIFs on one page.
4. Right-click blocking.
5. Use of images to display text or symbols.
6. Use of tables for layout - spare my bandwidth!
7. Best viewed with IE - phlease! It's the worst browser out there.
8. Site trying to install some crap (like a cursor).
9. Endless non-stop JavaScript alerts.
10. Having a huge immage that loads up in small chunks like mosaic - utter table idiocy.
11. "Your browser is not sufficient enough to browse this site, please get IE and then come back."
12. Page having dosens hundreds of links on it (portal sites).
13. E-Crap.
14. Having utter corporate public relations bull**** written on it, after reading which you become dumber.
15. Unnessesary use of Java applets (navigation menu done in Java? Just use JavaScript damn it!)
16. Serverside user input validation.
17. Use of JPEG for screenshots or other non-photo images.
18. Fixed font sizes that are unreadable in high resolutions.
19. Broken pages.
20. Bad HTML.
ByteWizard
11-20-2002, 10:34 AM
- Anything that flashes
- Sites that have too many images compounded with people who do not know the difference between BMP/JPG/GIF
- One page that takes forever to load because it should be 23 pages broken into LOGICAL sub-pages
- Pages that take forever to load for ANY reason
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