Fancy Nancy
My Top Ten Website Pet Peeves
I do a lot of surfing the Internet. I'm always Googling something. Sometimes I'm doing research. Other times I might shopping, looking for fun stuff, free stuff, product reviews, or news. The Internet is a wonderful thing if done properly. Where sites are poorly designed, it can be very annoying.
My top ten pet peeves about the design of Web pages:
10. Websites with nothing on the home page to identify itself.
You've seen them. Nice graphics, artistic, elegant looking home pages with no information. It might say "BXY Inc." with a link to 'Contact' and a list of customers. Click on each link, but you still do not know what the company is doing. Hmmm – must be top secret … whether they are spies … nobody knows.
9. Flashy, sparkling, swirling intros.
You click on a link, expecting someone to come home with the information you need. What you get is a page with pretty pictures blinking or swirling around. It does so for several seconds or longer if you have no luck.
Website programmers enjoy playing with these fancy features (ooh, aah!). They look cool, but they waste the reader's time. They serve no useful purpose, unless you're selling flashy, sparkly things.
Another kind of intro page that is slightly funny … Clicking on the link to a website and you get another page that just says "click here to enter.
8. Music, or any other sound, that starts when you click on the home page and you can not turn off.
Firstly, I hate when people think that I would listen to their choice of music. At least the option off.
Find me a website that a number of good content that I am interested in, so I visit their home page and the music starts playing some sentimental, mushy song like "Feelings". So I hit the 'stop' button on my browser, but the music goes on … and on.
OK, fine, I click on one of their interesting links and you thank God, the music stops. When I finish that page, I have to go back to the home page to the following link and guess what happens! That's right – "Feelings, whoa, whoa, whoa, feelings …." So I quickly get the following link. They have some interesting links on their homepage, so I'm going back and forth 15 times and the music goes on and off 15 times.
Pretty soon, my husband says, "What the heck are you doing there?" So I to give up on that site or mute my sound.
7. Excessive drop-down menus.
Drop down menus have their place when an option from 50 states and 100 countries, but I think they should be avoided if only a few menu options. This is another one of those cool features programmers like to play with that's not necessarily productive for the user.
One problem I have with drop-down menus is that all too often they are coded in the text about the size of the width of my cat's whiskers. You need the agility of a Swiss watch maker to click on the appropriate option to have.
If the drop-down menus have several nested levels – one wrong click on level 5 and to begin!
If you have a drop-down menu with 100 items, for heaven's sake, please have them in alphabetical order! I was filling out a form with a drop-down menu with about 100 countries listed in random order. I had to read the whole list and I finally found my country near the bottom recorded between China and Transylvania!
6. Too many moving parts.
Too many animated graphics on each page make it hard to read the content. I know, it's nice to cute animated graphics on personal web pages, but they should not get in the way of reading the content. A little animation is interesting and artistic – too much is annoying and cheesy.
Oh, let's not forget the most annoying of all the graphics – animated banner ads that talk to you! Excessive animated banners are distracting and annoying and they look unprofessional on business pages. If a page is too much of them, I will not stay there long.
5. Web page is too long or too large.
Long web pages are too difficult to follow. These are the sites where the first page goes on and on with no discernible structure. It's like trying to a 400 page book to read on a long sheet of paper with no chapter breaks.
Web pages with huge pictures are a problem, especially for surfers on a dial-up connection. Photos must be reduced to no more than 50k-100k and / or compressed. When someone on a dial-up connection, can literally take 5 or 10 minutes for a bunch of large photos are displayed.
Imagine a bunch of great pictures with a Web page that never ends and you might as well look your favorite movie while the page loads. People on a slow connection will just give up and go to someone else site.
4. Completely invalid results.
If you spend a considerable amount of time researching on the Internet you probably run into this. U 'cat jewelry' in the search engine and you get a page that is selling a bunch of stuff, but it has nothing to do with cats or jewelry – and it's not a rock group called Cat Jewelry either.
This happened because the keeper of that website using the keyword phrase 'cat jewelry' for their website because they find it is a popular keyword. This is known as keyword spamming.
What are these people thinking? I think they think that if you throw enough spam against the wall, what if it sticks.
If Google catches you keyword spamming they send a burly man named Bruno to stomp on your keyboard. No, seriously, they drop you from their 'lists' and act like you do not exist.
3. Websites that look like they were shot from a shotgun.
These websites often have the # 5 problem – going on and no other structure. They have tons of bad banner graphics with no common theme. 'Save the Orphan Rats',' Best Long Distance Rates', 'Are you a good kisser? "" Free Insurance Quotes. They have all kinds of independent text links in different text sizes and colors, with no organization or relationship.
Often This unorganized, unfocused websites use about 15 different fonts, sizes and colors, making it the look of the work of a 10 years old.
Somewhere on this website will be something to do with what I Googled to get there, but damned if I can find!
2. Text format is too small or too large.
Have you ever seen a web page where the text size is so big you have to scroll down to read 3 words? Is the author of this website believe that their point across by hard shouting at the top of their lungs? How smart is the author of the 4-inch letters look?
Sometimes the text size too small. It must be great to have such big eyes that you can comfortably read letters the size of a penny of the year at 18 inches. It's ridiculous to go to all the work of creating a website with lots of content, but it is too difficult to read. I know sometimes you can find the text size in your browser to change, but sometimes you can not.
1. Content is hard to read because the text and / or background colors.
The purpose of having written content on your website so people can read it right,? So why make it difficult to read by light pink text you can barely see on a pink background. To add to this scenario text that is too small (see # 2) above and have some butterflies or fairies Flitter on the screen, and you have a pretty picture, it's impossible to read!
The easiest to read is a very dark text on a light background. Even white text on a black background is harder to read.
If you have a website or web page, avoid anything that the reader waste time or causes confusion. Too many fancy features slow down the loading speed. If you want people to read your content, it is easy to read. Your structure and design should be straightforward and organized. When you build a website, you should consider what is best for the readers and they are more likely to stay longer on your website.
About the Author
Nancy Barney is the owner of Article Writing Planet, which has free articles, free article submission and free writer’s resources.
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