Your design hates ?
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- paulsmith
What would you say are your design pet hates in a webpage ?
Is it those sites that bevel and drop shadow every blasted image ?
Maybe the ones that make your browser go full screen (without asking) and then put a tiny flash "intro" in the center of the screen ?
Basically what I am asking is. What are the things you most hate to see done on a webpage. ?
- breeding0
sites that resize my browser window
sites that have sound without a mute option
sites that load a popup the size of my screen and then only use the center of it.
- breeding0
oh and damn cant believe i forgot
BLIND EMAIL LINKS
if you're going to link a mailto label it 'email me' or i hate having to check every link before i click it to make sure its not going to load outlook on me.
- nope0
horizontal scrolling
confusing navigation
that full screen crap
tons of animated gifs
slow loading
lack of content
- paulsmith0
Yeah Horizontal Scrolling that really sucks butt!
- paulrand0
"sites that load a popup the size of my screen and then only use the center of it."
that's called white space
- J0
Exactly Paulrand. Well said.
... and... 'Sucks butt' ?
Oh lord...
I hate... hate.
- Carty0
pop ups period. taste is a matter of public opinion...
- paulsmith0
Using white space is fine (sometimes not all of the time) but why does it have to be in a popup ?
- monNom0
jacob neilson pretty much summed up a lot of the things that bug me in his 2002 top ten.
this site pisses me right the fuck off!
fullscreen and no close! RAWR!
also their contact link doesn't go to a contact page...
- unknown0
yeah the ones you named are good ones to hate, also I hate those f'ing bastard DHTML drop down menus, some are used well, but most suck.
- Creon0
some photo sites have everything categorized into a thousand sub sections, and it takes 10 minutes to see anything. and then you have to back out of all the pages to get to another section. poor planning i think.
- breeding0
paul (rand)
im all for the use of white space, and not filling every inch of the browswer window, but... if you're going to load a pop up that i cant resize (especially when it fills my whole screen) there is no point. You didnt need the popup in the first place. I guess my real petpeeve is the use of popups where they arent neccessary - they're better than resizing my browser, but except on an art site you shouldnt be forcing the browser into any set configuration - thats not good design.
- vena0
white space is great, but i have serious doubts that most of these guys using this fullscreen method are doing it for white space. if they were concerned about white space, it'd only follow that they'd be concerned about placement, harmony, and a million other things that would encourage them NOT to shove their design into the middle of the screen as i see time and again. i mean, that's rather hamfisted if you ask me.
anyway, my personal design hate is kinkos. i don't hate the web much because i don't surf much.
- CyBrainX0
I will have to agree with the one about the music with no mute button.
3d shattered backgrounds.
"design" sites that are only an iframe of news items about other people's work
any blind links.
big downloads, like quicktime movies with no status bar on the bottom of the window, to let you know how much is downloaded.
diagonal arrows for no reason
tiny type, you can't read, for effect
3d asterisks like Volume One from 1998
Pixel Drags
Using Windows Media or Real Media instead of Quicktime!!!
pop up windows are ok sometimes, but a lot of people show no discretion.
- ave0
I'm with you on the Real Media Cy, if I see a .ram my blood boils.
For the most part I'm willing to accept a variety of styles and attempts...but if i see one more person use 45 degree lines as filler I'm going to pop an o-ring.
...and wherever possible I like fluid...although technology like flash suggests that fluid is going down the drain - in most applications.
- ave0
I should appropriate that last fluid remark:
At least consider that monitors come in one size. If the design concept does not allow for dynamic expansion, that's cool, but include consideration for maximum viewable space. Not to simply place filler garbage, but rather to consider bleed.
My monitor is yours for the taking, so use it. Don't abuse it though.
- ave0
^
...more than one size...
- lament0
"fullscreen and no close! RAWR!"
the answer to that is Alt-F4 if you're on a PC. :)
- Sapphire0
fullscreens are definitely down (not in a good way).
- kodap0
clichés