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Having a “search” bar, but when you use it, it just searches GOOGLE instead of the site you’re browsing. HUH? WHY? STUPID.
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Having a bunch of esoteric rules for filling in forms, but they don’t tell you what they are until you screw up, violate one, and then it resets the entire form, erasing everything that you input. AHGHSDFLJ:SFDJL:SDLJFJS:DF - “Phone numbers must be entered without dashes.” ERASED EVERYTHING
Boo. I hate that too. Duh, I could search google myself if that’s what I wanted to do.
Sound.
Websites should not have sound unless they ask you first.
And if they do ask, and it’s not a music or video site, and you say yes? A fist should pop out of the monitor and punch you in the face.
Okay, maybe not. But I hate sound on websites.
I dislike sites that resize my browser window. I use Firefox on a Mac and changed the setting that allows widow resizing, but that screwed something else up and I couldn’t even view some sites. So I had to turn it back on.
What is the function of the word “literally” in this thread title? Is there a risk that we would have thought you were speaking metaphorically if it hadn’t been included?
Stupid flash, shockwave, java, etc splash pages. Especially with SOUND.
Here’s a clue, dumbfucks, make your website accessible for everyone. Don’t require a kajillion different plug-ins just to be able to navigate your site. I don’t care enough to do that, I assure you.
I was unable to access the Nike USA site today. I could get into the UK site, but not the US. Not sure why, but I blame it on their navigation being a og damned plugin.
I am sorry I left the tech field and was in a position to STOP people from making those mistakes AND making programmers take something other than MSIE into consideration when browsing. Here’s a hint, you do not have to have someone SELECT which browser they have, the info comes in when they link to your page.
STOP THE SOUND.
Then again, the sound bit is more than enough reason for me never to go to myspace.com
Black backgrounds, or, worse, dark blue (or any dark colored) text on black backgrounds. Near impossible to read.
Sites that are set up such that, if you don’t want to use Flash, you can’t access the site. If it were, say, a video site, I might understand this. But I don’t necessarily want to watch videos when I’m looking something up or shopping online.
Pop-up windows.
Sites that insist on opening some links in a new window, and won’t let you middle-click to open in a new tab instead. I keep my Mozilla windows somewhat organized by keeping related things in different tabs of a single window, so I don’t appreciate this at all.
Especially not the California DMV site. I don’t know about you, but when I go to a government website with the intention of making a bureaucratic transaction like renewing my driver’s license, I do not expect the website to start playing music at me. Nor do I appreciate it much when it does.
It’s being used as an intensifier now. :mad:
I’m satisfied that it’s not being used as a negative.
I find that my Back button works quite well to solve most of the above problems, except for websites which disable the use of the Back button, which I really, really hate a lot.
Sites with long drawn out flash intros that can’t be skipped. Most give a skip option, but not all.
Sites that have ads that take half your screen if you accidently scroll over them.
Sites with ads that come up over what you’re reading and have nearly invisible close options. Like popups, but in the same window.
Sites that don’t follow the ‘two click’ rule. Meaning you should be able to get to the home page of the site in no more than two clicks.
Vendors’ sites that won’t disclose the shipping cost unless you fill out the entire registration form, credit card form and go to the shopping cart.
These are all good. Sound is probably the worst of the lot, IMO, though sites that resize my window are near the top of my list too.
Every page of a site should have, in the top-left corner, an obvious link back to the homepage.
And contact pages (on business sites) should have an e-mail form AND an e-mail address, in addition to a street address, phone number, and a damn map.
I have what you might call a bad website. It’s a bunch of opinion essays and a message board. I’m always looking for advice on how to improve it, so here:
Public sites, like the one of my city’s administration, or any damn site for that matter, that make sure you will never find what you’re looking for.
Sites that use script to disable right-click, and pop up some idiotic little box warning you not to steal their images.
Look here, motherfuckers: if i really wanted to steal your stupid images, getting past that script is absurdly easy.
I use Firefox, and the right-click button not only offers me a context menu, it also allows me to use mouse gestures. If you make it difficult for me to use my own hardware, i’ll never visit your site again.
Yeah I can pretty much tell when bureaucracy runs a Web site. Local governments are bad at this but colleges are 10x as bad.
Colleges will pay a company to design the very front end of the site, then every department and school hires an internal person to do their own thing, with their own set of skills and their own set of ideas as to how things should look/work, which makes for a completely un-cohesive site. And, of course, the turnover is like one new person every 2-4 years (or better yet, every semester!) which makes it even worse.
I basically like your site. It’s very clean and easy to navigate. You might try centering the graphic on your front page. And on the text pages, white-spacing once after each paragraph. But it was good. And much good reading.
That’s an interesting way to spell “drafts some professor, student, or secretary, who may or may not have ever designed a webpage before, doesn’t pay them to do it, and expects them to do it in the time they’re not spending on their real job”