Why the fuck do web pages have to be counterintuitive about these two basic things? If I go to a business’s website (for a local place) what do I ultimately want and need to know?
That’s right - where you are and when you’re open. It’s not fucking rocket science, so stop hiding that stuff in “Home”, “About” or “Contact Us”. How about a front page that shows, up front, your address and business hours?
FFS, why do they bury this, the basic yet critical stuff in some clever and less than obvious location?
Sometimes it’s easiest to scroll to the bottom and find the facebook button. Addresses are usually in a pretty standard location on facebook business pages. I assume it’s the same on other social media sites as well.
Exactly! I have to go through this stupid exercise for any - any! - business, regardless of how “normal”/common or obscure or “indie” it is. It’s a local bike shop that got this rant going.
Style over substance, usability, seems to be taking over a lot of websites.
As well as the OP peeve, I get really pissed off at big box hardware sites such as Home Depot, that have pathetic search systems. A thousand of a certain type of item. But no decent way to narrow it down by sizes or other important things.
Pretty sure you don’t need to have an account just to see a business page, though. I completely agree about the contact info though – I hate having to hunt to find a phone number or email contact on something that’s supposed to be a business site.
I was on a commercial site the other day where mousing anywhere in the upper third of my browser window would trigger a half-screen drop-down banner that covered everything I was looking at and would take a good five seconds to ‘close’ each time. Was super obnoxious.
I’m between Gettysburg and York. If I say southern PA people think I’m from somewhere around Breezewood and if I say southeastern they think Philadelphia. I guess I should just say somewhere near Gettysburg.
Preach. Hell, even some public offices fall into this trap.
Y’all remember the information you have posted on your front door?
Put that in your front page.
I try not to count on that. Run into a few places where the last time they updated their hours was back when they went in lockdown.
Annoyingly, every so often the link is only to a mobile-app-optimized page that has not been version-updated, so it displays quite fecal on a desktop screen.
How about letting me look at a menu? No, I don’t want to order online or create an account or look at a list of descriptions with no price in it, nor do I want to individually click on pictures of each item in order to find out what’s in it. Just show me the same thing you show people in the restaurant so I can decide whether there’s something I like and if I can afford it.
