rvalkass

Aug 27 2005, 01:17 PM

Woooo, this list could go on for ever! The things I personally hate are:

1. The entrance pages. Whats the point? OK, I've come to your site only to be given a large button labelled Click To Enter. Never really understood the point.
2. Annoying javascript. OK a clock may be useful, but a clock following your mouse made out of ASCII art??
3. Copying information. If you can't write your own stuff, don't have a website. You wouldn't walk up to a Picasso and say "I painted that", so don't do it to other peoples content.
4. Automatically opening web pages. Their hit counter goes up, but they know that most of those hits are people forcibly having the page opened and then closing it 2 seconds later. Another commonly annoying use for javascript.
5. Loads of animated GIFs. Even on broadband a whole page full of unhelpful and pointless animated GIFs can take a while to load, and its even more frustrating when the images didn't need to be animated anyway!

Sorry I sound a bit angry, I am trying to finish my geography coursework for the end of next week!

 

 

 

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Tyssen

Aug 27 2005, 01:18 PM

I hate bank websites that don't work in all browsers. I mean, come on, banks make HEAPS of money and yet they can't pay for a web development team that does their job properly.

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sxyloverboy

Aug 27 2005, 01:21 PM

There are very many things that can make a website be painfull to look at or not very nice to navigate. One of the things that really bothers me is the javascript stuff. As you said snowflakes, stuff that follow the mouse or maybe even a diffrent pointer.

Another thing that is really anoying is background imagease that are bigger than lets say 300x300 and dont flow in with each other. i mean if you use a texture its fine even though that also can look crap if its to extravagant. Then big images like photographs or graphics that dont have a uniform color and dont flow into each other.

What can also be anoying is animates gifs for a background. what ive seen sometime latly is a flashing star (about 100 x 100px) tiled on the backgroung flashing and flash anf flashing and urg thats so annoying.

Now as to some of the things you mentions i dont really find very anoying. The Powered by buttons are ok in my opinion. i mean they arnt very big and if they hasent used a CMS or something the site would probably not be as good as it is. (get what i mean? O.o)

But then again stuff that arnt good when using a CMS or a Forum like phpBB is using the standart template that comes when you install it. i mean there are many templates for all kind of messages boards and usualy you dont even have to download them and upload them to install them.

and thats about all i have to say about that.

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sonyguy

Aug 27 2005, 01:33 PM

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Quite often that first page has browser detection javascript in it and that 'Enter' link is generated depending on what browser you're using.

That's a first for me, I thought they were just there to annoy you and pee you off

Anyway, yes, the 'enter' button really annoy me and if the site has absolutely loads of pop-ups, one or two fine. But since I started using Mozilla Firefox, it's fine anyway

And I hate those full screen pop-unders, UGH, what the hell is the point?

The fancy javascript stuff is bugging me alot lately, the stuff that follows the mouse as you said

This list really could go on forever as rvalkass said..

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icylady101

Aug 27 2005, 01:53 PM

Hmmm... interesting.
Yes, I agree with quite alot of the aspects of websites that shouldn't be used, as you've mentioned. Flashy animated .gifs is my worst enemy! and flashy backgrounds---YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING! Yep, I don't like the sites with backgrounds that don't tile either, they make the website look cluttered and in a way... "cheap", if you know what I mean.

Oh yes, I hate the comic sans font as well. It is so boring and to me it looks lumpy! I remember that I used the font before on my school assignments and stuff when I was in yr 7 or 8, but then I stopped using it, but I never used it on my website, it just made the site look very....uuuhh.

Oh, and don't start me on javascript, that is a bad choice, I really dislike javascript because it takes a lot of time to load and also the scripts are long, once you paste them into your site, you would have to keep on scrolling to get to the point where you last edited! I try my best to avoid using javascript but I suppose sometimes it is useful when I have small spaces for navigation but other than that, it is really bad. But I totally agree with the floating snowflakes and flashing stars though.

Wow, I've written quite a lot already but I am yet to finish my post though, oh well I guess I'll have to continue then.

Ads! I don't like ads and especially those ads that are on your site which advertises these products and services that don't even correspond to what your site is about!! They are so stupid, but I guess, again, if they are offering free services to webusers than I guess thay do need to advertise to retain the free services. But, I mean, at least list the ads that actually has something to do with your website!!

To me, I think the enter signs are OK in a way... I like the idea of creating an entrance to your site, so on that page you can list all the button rotations and credits and stuff so that you don't have to make a seperate page in your site to accomodate that info, but I do realise how irritating it is if someone has a slow internet connection and it takes them ages to load a page, but then only to find another page awaits for them to click-and load again!

Pop-up layouts are quite annoying as well, because if you have pop-ups blocked and are unaware of it. You suddenly find your self clicking on this damn link for about an hour and nothing ever opens or loads, then you have the trouble of finding where your blocker is and then turning it off, and THEN clicking on the link again!

I don't really like premade layouts on sites as well. You know that feeling you get when you come to this website and then you just suddenly fall in love with the content at this site and in the end you notice this very small lettering on the layout saying "Layout designed by XXXXX". You suddenly find yourself a fool to have liked such a site where the owner doesn't even know how to design a layout. And also those thousands of sites on the web that design premade layouts aren't helping webusers either, thats just encouraging people to be lazy and not unique.

Wow, this post is coming into the 3100 character mark, I think I better stop, but that doesn't mean that the things about a websites I don't like has stopped, no-way! I just have to take a little rest until I start getting angry at those websites again.

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sader

Aug 27 2005, 03:20 PM

Whooo it looks this pool does the job

Here's what I hate my self:

PopUp's:
Yes there is no problem to close one popup. It never makes me angry because the site must live somehow but when I start to get tons of popup's I close that page imidietly and never come back to thiswebpage.

Stupid Javascript.

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Annoying javascript. OK a clock may be useful, but a clock following your mouse made out of ASCII art??

the same goes to me. Also I hate stupid fallowing snowflakes, leafs,stars... it looks stupid for me because "webmaster" just copyed that javascript and did not write the code self and he puts in code what can find in internet all garbage, or for example I hate when you come to site and it shows message "welcome to my site" it sounds for me like "hei guys look at me I know how to put javascript in my site"

Automaticly loads new site
I hate it. Also I hate when site load him self and you cant normaly use your "back" button instead you must click "back" button many times as fast as you can

Stoling information.
What can I say they are thiefs. In this point I agree with rvalkass

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[i]_R_Crazy_Idiot

Sep 10 2005, 07:34 AM

The ultimate bad design would be the kukluxklan website, if you actually took a look it was designed horribly.

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FLaKes

Sep 10 2005, 07:25 AM

I guess that the most hated thing about web sites are pop ups. Everyone is used to closing it the second it pops up, mainly because they have been exploited by advertising and annoying stuff like that. One other thing that didnt show up here are the flash sites or any other site that takes up the whole screen like if it were something really important kind of like if it wanted to take over your computer or something. Basically I think its all about force, a website tries to force you to look at some banner or something and then comes the pop up, or the full screen or anything else that does things without your consent.

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Gyad

Sep 10 2005, 05:22 AM

I hate sites that put up :
-bright colors to make it "attracting" to the eyes.
Its attracting but NOT in a good way. Its ANNOYING!!!

-pop up ads
This kind of stuff is just evil. Couldn't they just put ad banners, or text ads?!

-Stupid Private Places With Signs That Says something like :
>>>DO NOT ENTER!!!
>>>CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK
>>>PRIVATE
>>>NOTHING HERE YET
>>>(something here) [effect-putting you through a javascript with popup promts saying...ha...ha...you've...been...fooled...into...coming...here...etc...]
>>>etc...
Why put those up these stupid places when you obviously don't want people going into them? (with the exception of the javascript one.)

-Annoying trials of pages!
There are some places with totally useless pages that ask you questions like :
>>>are you sure you want to enter?
>>>please turn back if you do not want to enter.
>>>etc

-Sites that never update.
I hate lazy peoples. (YES even the guy that runs the page that I have homepaged.) Why put up a site if you're never going to update it? I understand if you had some emergency or a vacation. But three to four months without an update is rediculous.

-Useless updates.
I hate the people that put up millions of useless updates like :
>>>Hi, we're not dead yet!
>>>This the admin speaking telling you to not leave us!
>>>I got nothing to say...this is a pointless update.
>>>The next update on our project will come sooner or later, please check back later.

-People that are illiterate.
>>>Hi, tis is (insert name). Whasup ppl?! Welcome to mah site!
I'm sure you understand...

OMG, theres soooooooo much more places that I hate so much, that it makes me so mad.

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hibs1875

Aug 29 2005, 09:54 PM

Adverts and pop-ups. Especiall those ads/sites that make you either press "skip" or you have to wait 30 seconds etc before a pic shows or before it redirects you etc. Very Very Annoying IMO

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Saint_Michael

Aug 28 2005, 10:37 PM

well i would have to say anywebsite that are still around that have not updated to today's standards.


but of course POP-ups and add are the worse them thing as well, if you need money get a job.

plus i hate websites that don't work busted links, broen images, and slow load up time.

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