webpage annoyances
- Black backgrounds.
Can you say "eyestrain"? Come on, kiddies, my eyes are bad enough.
- Enter here.
There's something really annoying about waiting two minutes for a page to load and finding out
it's just a picture you're supposed to click on to get to the real page. And I can maybe
understand making a page like that for your webrings and junk, but why force non-webring people
to sit through it?
- People who can't make thumbnails and change the height/width specs on their pictures
instead.
Okay, so then they have maybe fifty little 100x100 images, right? But the images are really
much bigger. Now, say each of these fifty images are 10 kb apiece. That means that if you want
to see all of the pictures, you have to wait for 500 kilobytes to load! Most images resized like
this are much bigger than 10 kb. Think about it.
- People who can make a frames page but can't for the life of them make a link open
outside the frames without opening a new window.
TARGET="_top" That's it! Simple! Jesus Christ!
- That little "right click disabled" thing
Okay, first of all, if I right click on your page, it's because you have one of the other things
listed here. Believe me, I don't want your crappy code. Second of all, this doesn't work. If I
want to get to your code, I'll just "view source." Or, even better, I'll just disable my
javascript. Yeah, people can do that. Amazing, hunh?
- Javascript errors
For Christ's sake, people, can't you CHECK your code before you put it online?
- Pop-up Java boxes
So you go to a page, and a little box pops up, welcoming you to the page. Fine. Then you go to
one of the other sections of the page, come back--and there's that damn box again! On and on.
What's worse is when there's more than one. These are the pages I will avoid like Rush Limbaugh.
- Internet explorer users who don't close their tables.
"Ummm.. I wonder why my friends with netscape can't see my page..."
- Not being able to turn the damn music off.
Actually, now that all that seems to play music in Netscape is quicktime, I fucking hate pages
with any midis whatsoever.
- When you come to a page, and before they let you see anything, about a bazillion colors
fade in and out of your monitor, and sure, it might be cool the first time, but then it happens
EVERY time you visit the main page..
I hate that.
- Enhanced for (name of browser)
Enhanced for Internet Explorer means "I can't really code, so if you're using Netscape this page
will be impossible." And I already use Netscape.
- People who don't know about height/width specifications.
This makes the page seem to load slower, because every time you get to a picture the page stops
scrolling until it loads. At least with specifications, you can read the other text on the page
or watch the pics show up.
- Blind links.
Whoa, how did I get here? I wanted a frog picture, and this is the site for "Uncle Fucker's
Chuckle Hut"! What, their ad banners weren't enough?
- Click here.
Saved the worst for last. This is the worst internet cliche ever. There have got to be
more creative ways of saying "this way to what I want you to see." If you can't think of any,
you need help.
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Well, that's enough of that.