Web Site Development - Things I Despise!

[voidmain]

Here's one Webmaster can participate in, hopefully I don't piss him off and make him kick me out.

Things that make web sites suck, or just web sites that suck:

1) MSN Wrappers around commercial sites
2) Shockwave/Flash Intro pages
3) Excessive use of animated gifs
4) Poorly implemented frames
4.a) any use of an iframe
5) excessive use of Java and JavaScript
5.a) having this browser check:

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6) Use of vbscript
7) http://www.espn.com
8) http://www.nhl.com
9) Passport
10) ASP

My list is much longer than this but I'll wait and see if anyone can add to the list.

[ December 20, 2001: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[Calum]

What about those irritating 'Click Here To Enter' front pages?  :mad:

[Stryker]

popups that tell you nothing

popups that come up when you leave the site

scripts that prevent easy use of the back feature (a page that redirects you to the next page... so back just takes you to the redirector)

clicking a link and getting an advertisement page that directs you to your intended page 5 seconds later.

forums where people open up 2 year old threads  

[xyle_one]

quote:Originally posted by Stryker:
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forums where people open up 2 year old threads    

haha. nice  

oh yeah. i hate sites with huge annoying background images with text over it that completely destroys all legibility. people with images that are scaled down and misproportioned so it makes the site take hours to load. and blogs. even though i have one  

[Pissed_Macman]

For a second I thought void main was back.

[Pantso]

I don't remember this thread but I happen to agree with void main all the way on the reasons he mentioned. A website should provide information and most of the time this information is obscured by annoying animated gifs, huge swf clips that take a century to load on 56k, tons of pictures and images etc.

[Laukev7]

Pages optimised for Internet Explhorror.

[Fett101]

Blinking Text. Backgrounds that repeat because I have a high resolution.

[cahult]

And what about all those japanese pages dedicated to an obscure actress, actor or model with lousy wav files in the background going on forever. Don

[MeLeCtAuS]

one thing i cant stand are websites that sell your email add and you end up geting sent loads of spam  
[marquee] :mad: I HATE SPAM  :mad: !!!!!![/marquee]

[Fett101]

quote:Originally posted by MeLeCtAuS:
one thing i cant stand are websites that sell your email add and you end up geting sent loads of spam  
[marquee]  :mad:  I HATE SPAM   :mad:  !!!!!![/marquee]

That's why you use a second address for that crap.

[Siplus]

that's what hotmail is for    

it makes a great spam email account

[Faust]

Yeah If I ever meet the dude who owns "[email protected]" he is gunna kill me...

[Pissed_Macman]

Every web designed goes through that stage though. It's less about making a page that is easy to read and understand than it is fun to make a page that people can look at and say "hay ur page iz rox0rz" in the guestbook. Hell, I think I'm still in that stage!

[Canadian Lover]

1) Light text on light background
2) Ryan and Friends
3) Websites that log your ip and show it to the       public
4) Use of huge images
5) Pages that require you to use IE, then it install a program on your computer