Web Page Pet Peeves

WomanOfHeart · 19th July 2003, 18:31

Like a lot of people on the Internet, I surf around a lot. I've seen Web pages that are thoughtfully planned and well put together. I've also seen some pages that make me want to puke!
What are your pet peeves regarding Web pages? Do you have links to some really raunchy sites?
Some of my pet peeves include:

Fucked up midi music. It's worse if you can't turn it off!
Text that's hard, if not impossible to read.
Mistakes in spelling and grammar.
Links that don't fucking work!

Raz · 19th July 2003, 18:51

little red x's everywhere
Luminous backgrounds with slightly different luminous text
text message slang
frames
thousands of animations, shitty animations

zootm · 19th July 2003, 19:02

pages made up of pictures of text.

mikm · 19th July 2003, 20:58

* background music
* pictures in the background that aren't smooth / watermark-y (makes text hard to read)
* most of the font in times new roman
* Bright colors, no good color scheme
* Lots of random pictures
* Lack of organization
Mostly what everybody else said
(I don't mind frames if they are done extraordinarily well)
* pop-up ads or any other ad that opens in a new window and interferes with my viewing of the webpage

zaeger · 19th July 2003, 21:50

i hate:
-bad design, get better or get offline.
-unintentional misspellings, spell check moron.
-intentional misspellings, you are an idiot and you've decided to share this fact with the whole world.
-the freaking word 'goodies', words cannot describe the pain i feel...
-pop-ups, you should be shot for using these.
-pop-unders, you should be shot in the back of the head.
-long loading times, really the only site that give me this much trouble is the deviantart site. and yeah i have cable.

papadoc · 20th July 2003, 00:30

Music that automatically loads with the page.
Overuse of Flash especially when it's not done right.
Flashing banner ads.

Jay · 20th July 2003, 00:47

I guess it would depend on the webpage

http://www.thevideodudes.com/ << this just irritates me, the menu never stops moving unless you really try to stop it.

http://www.angelfire.com/games5/kakarotto/Main.html << ugly interface as well as background midi, just to make sure that I realize that I don't want to be here.

mostly though I use a proxy called proximitron to block popups and unwanted content (i.e unwanted embedded media) from making it to my browser.

White Raven · 20th July 2003, 02:18

I know I am just a beginner at coding, so please excuse the mistakes here, but what do you think of my new site? It's an HTML re-do of the old Escaflowne On Cloud 9, and if it's annoying, please tell me!

1. MIDI music annoys me. I hate it. Never use it unless you want me to shut your page immediately and not ever look at it and reccommend others not to look at it.

2. Annoying colours. CLASH! http://www.lissaexplains.com for HTML -- good HTML help site but I can only stay on it for 3 minutes max. I mean LOOK at it!

zootm · 20th July 2003, 06:49

black backgrounds.

that could just be me, though.

WomanOfHeart · 20th July 2003, 07:21

I don't mind black backgrounds as long as I'm still able to read the text. I get really annoyed at sites with super bright colors, and too many things flashing at me. I'm also starting to get annoyed with these sites that have "vote for my site" all over. It also pisses me off to click on a link and have that page say "Under Construction" with one of those tacky fucking construction worker images on it. If that page isn't done, then don't fucking upload it!

Mr Jones · 20th July 2003, 08:01

Sometimes navigation can be so much fun.
http://www.cloats.com/

WomanOfHeart · 20th July 2003, 08:45

Ugh! This site will give you a headache!
http://www.2nu2.com/homeall1.html

WomanOfHeart · 20th July 2003, 09:01

Yeah, right. I really want these morons fixing my website!

http://www1.shore.net/%7Estraub/wpr.htm

Mr_007 · 20th July 2003, 18:00

Yes i agree!

Mr_007 · 20th July 2003, 18:02

Ye should fix this sites!

White Raven · 20th July 2003, 18:57

Jeez, that web page repair one makes me have to squint... White backgrounds are too damn bright, I like dark blues or blacks... Something easy on the eyes.

sgtfuzzbubble011 · 20th July 2003, 21:04

I don't mind pages that resize when they load, as long as it's not maximizing. I can't stand it when a page automatically maximizes itself.

papadoc · 20th July 2003, 23:57

<off topic>
WomanOfHeart your avatar really
looks good on the black background.
</off topic>

I also get aggrivated with some of the trails
that follow your cursor around.

Shenlong · 21st July 2003, 00:53

Quote:

Originally posted by m²k
* most of the font in times new roman

Damn...Can't please everyone, I guess...

I can't find myself using any other font besides TMR (Aside from Arial)...

•Pages with multi-color/font text
•Fonts that aren't readable since they don't contrast with the background color
•Un-orginized sites
•Random images spread out everywhere
•Dead/b0rked links
•Frequent grammar/spelling/punctuation mistakes...Note the "frequent" code word, since no one's entirely perfect, but it can get annoying to read if it happens alot, and can really make you look like a dumbass (Broken English speakers need not imply)...
•BGMs (Especially MIDIs)
•Pop-ups, although that's not much of a problem for me... *praises the "Disable Pop-Ups" checkbox on the top of his browser*

mikm · 29th July 2003, 19:37

Pages like this:
http://www.geocities.com/toesmash/

WomanOfHeart · 30th July 2003, 00:12

Quote:

Originally posted by m²k
Pages like this:
http://www.geocities.com/toesmash/

Wait a minute...

This guy has an AV's pack for WinAmp, but can't seem to create a better website??? Is it just me, or is something very wrong with this picture???

mikm · 30th July 2003, 01:09

Nope, I see nothing wrong with this picture. His AVS presets suck horribly mainly because they are unoriginal and very basic. It is very easy to create AVS presets like that and to experienced AVS'ers, they are about as good as his site.

Akuso · 30th July 2003, 03:42

lol! *cough*

er....
I must confess...
about 2-3 years ago.... i made a website... it is trash please don't kill me.... there used to be midi music on every page....

IM SO SORRY!!!!!

LordSquishy · 30th July 2003, 07:57

I agree with a lot of what other people have already said here, so I won't repeat.

Another thing that ticks me off is images that have been nearest-neighbor resized!

Argh! You'd think people would learn how to use PSP or PhotoShop!

zeppelinfr34k · 31st July 2003, 04:46

Akuso: A moving background? You should be shot. No offense, of course.

Things that piss me off on websites:
-Text that's too small to read at high resolutions
-Animated GIFs (Honestly, they look like shit)
-Guestbooks
-Animated backgrounds (of course)
-Frames (unless they're inline frames, in which case they rule)
-Poorly done Flash
-Any sounds whatsoever
-Anyone trying to copy Maddox (http://maddox.xmission.com)

Merlin · 31st July 2003, 14:38

All of the things mentioned so far.

especially background images, music/sounds, and animated gifs.

Lej · 1st August 2003, 19:13

is wbsts tht rfr in txt, usng as fw vwls s pssbl.
NE1 who rfrs 2 othrs in txt dsrvs 2 B sht t dwn

(this last bit may be a bit ambiguous, for some it may say "Shot at dawn"(92%), for some it may say "Shit at dawn(giggle)"(7%) and for those who cannot spell it may say "Shat/Shut/Shet at dawn." For our scottish audience, it may say "Shite at dawn". Its not the message, its how you read it.

In English(US and UK): is websites that refer in text using as few vowels as possible. Anyone who refers to others in text deserves to be shot at dawn.

frwll LEJ

keirran · 1st August 2003, 19:56

Hate popups, Incorrect/bad code on HTML, it just really gets to me, also backgrounds that are pictures, and not lightened a bit, Disorganized, or bad links, Broken and missing pictures, mislabeled things, rude, scrolling pop-ins, sites on Geocities, or links that lead to dead or 404 pages.

~Keirran

Omega X · 8th August 2003, 09:32

Quote:

Originally posted by zaeger
i hate:
-bad design, get better or get offline.
-unintentional misspellings, spell check moron.
-intentional misspellings, you are an idiot and you've decided to share this fact with the whole world.
-the freaking word 'goodies', words cannot describe the pain i feel...
-pop-ups, you should be shot for using these.
-pop-unders, you should be shot in the back of the head.
-long loading times, really the only site that give me this much trouble is the deviantart site. and yeah i have cable.

LOL! This has to be some of the funniest things I heard yet.

But all in all,I hate....

-Sites that secretly use tracking cookies for evil.
-badly used Active X promotions(Gator anyone)
-Ancient graphics, Why in the hell are they stil using ms paint?!
-Useless, Cluttered pages. You need Sherlock Holmes just to find a link that works.
-Extra long load times. Flash heavy sites are not immune.
-Sites that rarely updates its content. WINAMP.COM,YOUR ON THE LIST!

hgnis · 8th August 2003, 16:11

Bad links, 100000000 pop-ups, pages with music that start automatically/those that don't give you the option to shut the music off, images that are too big/unclear. Pages with people who think I really want to know about the daily going's on in their little worlds.

zeppelinfr34k · 8th August 2003, 20:12

I forgot to add: any page that tries to make you download some stupid spyware program before it lets you view the content (be that warez or porn, it's still damn annoying), and any page that automatically changes your browser's home page (like someone, I forget who, already said). This is why I use Opera for normal browsing and IE for warez/porn/whatever when I think that there's a good chance that I'll get some malicious cookie planted on my browser (this includes checking my Hotmail account

).

Bilbo Baggins · 8th August 2003, 21:55

I hate people who moan about the design or layout of pages. Not everyone who creates a webpage is some design guru with a phD in putting lines of HTML together.

skinme! · 8th August 2003, 23:45

Quote:

Originally posted by Bilbo Baggins
I hate people who moan about the design or layout of pages. Not everyone who creates a webpage is some design guru with a phD in putting lines of HTML together.

Which is why god invented web designers

Dark backgrounds depress me.

Omega X · 9th August 2003, 05:30

Quote:

Originally posted by skinme!
Which is why god invented web designers

Dark backgrounds depress me.

YAY for US!!

Bilbo Baggins · 9th August 2003, 15:26

www.entmoot.co.uk is very bad.

WomanOfHeart · 9th August 2003, 17:14

You're right, Bilbo. It's completely and utterly shameless.

killswitch1968 · 9th August 2003, 18:10

SItes that aren't multi-browser compatible

zootm · 13th August 2003, 17:28

orisinal is fantastic. i have a friend who just plays pocketful of stars non-stop, with a huge smile on her face.

19th July 2003, 18:31	#1
WomanOfHeart Major Dudette Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Somewhere no one can find me...in my own head. Posts: 978	Web Page Pet Peeves Like a lot of people on the Internet, I surf around a lot. I've seen Web pages that are thoughtfully planned and well put together. I've also seen some pages that make me want to puke! What are your pet peeves regarding Web pages? Do you have links to some really raunchy sites? Some of my pet peeves include: Fucked up midi music. It's worse if you can't turn it off! Text that's hard, if not impossible to read. Mistakes in spelling and grammar. Links that don't fucking work!

19th July 2003, 20:58	#4
mikm Major Dude Join Date: May 2001 Location: somewhere else Posts: 1,286	* background music * pictures in the background that aren't smooth / watermark-y (makes text hard to read) * most of the font in times new roman * Bright colors, no good color scheme * Lots of random pictures * Lack of organization Mostly what everybody else said (I don't mind frames if they are done extraordinarily well) * pop-up ads or any other ad that opens in a new window and interferes with my viewing of the webpage powered by C₈H₁₀N₄O₂

20th July 2003, 00:47	#7
Jay Moderator Alumni Join Date: May 2000 Location: Next Door Posts: 8,942	I guess it would depend on the webpage http://www.thevideodudes.com/ << this just irritates me, the menu never stops moving unless you really try to stop it. http://www.angelfire.com/games5/kakarotto/Main.html << ugly interface as well as background midi, just to make sure that I realize that I don't want to be here. mostly though I use a proxy called proximitron to block popups and unwanted content (i.e unwanted embedded media) from making it to my browser. -Jay \| Radio Toolbox.com

20th July 2003, 02:18	#8
White Raven Little Winged One Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Canada, now UK Posts: 4,174	I know I am just a beginner at coding, so please excuse the mistakes here, but what do you think of my new site? It's an HTML re-do of the old Escaflowne On Cloud 9, and if it's annoying, please tell me! 1. MIDI music annoys me. I hate it. Never use it unless you want me to shut your page immediately and not ever look at it and reccommend others not to look at it. 2. Annoying colours. CLASH! http://www.lissaexplains.com for HTML -- good HTML help site but I can only stay on it for 3 minutes max. I mean LOOK at it! just as feathery as ever \| portfolio \| a poignant quote

20th July 2003, 18:57	#16
White Raven Little Winged One Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Canada, now UK Posts: 4,174	Jeez, that web page repair one makes me have to squint... White backgrounds are too damn bright, I like dark blues or blacks... Something easy on the eyes. just as feathery as ever \| portfolio \| a poignant quote

19th July 2003, 18:51	#2
Raz Forum King Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Manchester Posts: 6,470	little red x's everywhere Luminous backgrounds with slightly different luminous text text message slang frames thousands of animations, shitty animations

19th July 2003, 19:02	#3
zootm Forum King Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: the nether reaches of bonnie scotland Posts: 13,375	pages made up of pictures of text.

19th July 2003, 21:50	#5
zaeger Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: the mountains of yakushima Posts: 87	i hate: -bad design, get better or get offline. -unintentional misspellings, spell check moron. -intentional misspellings, you are an idiot and you've decided to share this fact with the whole world. -the freaking word 'goodies', words cannot describe the pain i feel... -pop-ups, you should be shot for using these. -pop-unders, you should be shot in the back of the head. -long loading times, really the only site that give me this much trouble is the deviantart site. and yeah i have cable.

20th July 2003, 00:30	#6
papadoc Comfortably Numb (Forum King) Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 4,619	Music that automatically loads with the page. Overuse of Flash especially when it's not done right. Flashing banner ads.

20th July 2003, 06:49	#9
zootm Forum King Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: the nether reaches of bonnie scotland Posts: 13,375	black backgrounds. that could just be me, though.

20th July 2003, 07:21	#10
WomanOfHeart Major Dudette Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Somewhere no one can find me...in my own head. Posts: 978	I don't mind black backgrounds as long as I'm still able to read the text. I get really annoyed at sites with super bright colors, and too many things flashing at me. I'm also starting to get annoyed with these sites that have "vote for my site" all over. It also pisses me off to click on a link and have that page say "Under Construction" with one of those tacky fucking construction worker images on it. If that page isn't done, then don't fucking upload it!

20th July 2003, 08:01	#11
Mr Jones Nothing to say... Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: UK Posts: 23,098	Sometimes navigation can be so much fun. http://www.cloats.com/

20th July 2003, 08:45	#12
WomanOfHeart Major Dudette Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Somewhere no one can find me...in my own head. Posts: 978	Ugh! This site will give you a headache! http://www.2nu2.com/homeall1.html

20th July 2003, 09:01	#13
WomanOfHeart Major Dudette Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Somewhere no one can find me...in my own head. Posts: 978	Yeah, right. I really want these morons fixing my website! http://www1.shore.net/%7Estraub/wpr.htm

20th July 2003, 18:00	#14
Mr_007 Banned Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,838	Yes i agree!

20th July 2003, 18:02	#15
Mr_007 Banned Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,838	Ye should fix this sites!

20th July 2003, 21:04	#17
sgtfuzzbubble011 Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 60,839	I don't mind pages that resize when they load, as long as it's not maximizing. I can't stand it when a page automatically maximizes itself.

20th July 2003, 23:57	#18
papadoc Comfortably Numb (Forum King) Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 4,619	<off topic> WomanOfHeart your avatar really looks good on the black background. </off topic> I also get aggrivated with some of the trails that follow your cursor around.

29th July 2003, 19:37	#20
mikm Major Dude Join Date: May 2001 Location: somewhere else Posts: 1,286	Pages like this: http://www.geocities.com/toesmash/ powered by C₈H₁₀N₄O₂

30th July 2003, 01:09	#22
mikm Major Dude Join Date: May 2001 Location: somewhere else Posts: 1,286	Nope, I see nothing wrong with this picture. His AVS presets suck horribly mainly because they are unoriginal and very basic. It is very easy to create AVS presets like that and to experienced AVS'ers, they are about as good as his site. powered by C₈H₁₀N₄O₂

30th July 2003, 03:42	#23
Akuso Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 83	lol! cough er.... I must confess... about 2-3 years ago.... i made a website... it is trash please don't kill me.... there used to be midi music on every page.... IM SO SORRY!!!!!

30th July 2003, 07:57	#24
LordSquishy Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 34	I agree with a lot of what other people have already said here, so I won't repeat. Another thing that ticks me off is images that have been nearest-neighbor resized! Argh! You'd think people would learn how to use PSP or PhotoShop!

31st July 2003, 04:46	#25
zeppelinfr34k Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Anytown, USA Posts: 126	Akuso: A moving background? You should be shot. No offense, of course. Things that piss me off on websites: -Text that's too small to read at high resolutions -Animated GIFs (Honestly, they look like shit) -Guestbooks -Animated backgrounds (of course) -Frames (unless they're inline frames, in which case they rule) -Poorly done Flash -Any sounds whatsoever -Anyone trying to copy Maddox (http://maddox.xmission.com)

31st July 2003, 14:38	#26
Merlin ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (Forum King) Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Manchester Posts: 4,209	All of the things mentioned so far. especially background images, music/sounds, and animated gifs. as he faced the sun, he cast no shadow __________________

1st August 2003, 19:13	#27
Lej Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3	What I really hate... is wbsts tht rfr in txt, usng as fw vwls s pssbl. NE1 who rfrs 2 othrs in txt dsrvs 2 B sht t dwn (this last bit may be a bit ambiguous, for some it may say "Shot at dawn"(92%), for some it may say "Shit at dawn(giggle)"(7%) and for those who cannot spell it may say "Shat/Shut/Shet at dawn." For our scottish audience, it may say "Shite at dawn". Its not the message, its how you read it. In English(US and UK): is websites that refer in text using as few vowels as possible. Anyone who refers to others in text deserves to be shot at dawn. frwll LEJ

1st August 2003, 19:56	#28
keirran Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Oregon Posts: 3	Hate popups, Incorrect/bad code on HTML, it just really gets to me, also backgrounds that are pictures, and not lightened a bit, Disorganized, or bad links, Broken and missing pictures, mislabeled things, rude, scrolling pop-ins, sites on Geocities, or links that lead to dead or 404 pages. ~Keirran

8th August 2003, 16:11	#30
hgnis Hobbit Humper Forum King Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: banned camp Posts: 4,127	Bad links, 100000000 pop-ups, pages with music that start automatically/those that don't give you the option to shut the music off, images that are too big/unclear. Pages with people who think I really want to know about the daily going's on in their little worlds. I am so important I feel the need to let it be known like a liberal discovering the internets for the first time. Uh hur hur hur. I also wash myself with a rag on a stick. Reality bites <3

8th August 2003, 20:12	#31
zeppelinfr34k Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Anytown, USA Posts: 126	I forgot to add: any page that tries to make you download some stupid spyware program before it lets you view the content (be that warez or porn, it's still damn annoying), and any page that automatically changes your browser's home page (like someone, I forget who, already said). This is why I use Opera for normal browsing and IE for warez/porn/whatever when I think that there's a good chance that I'll get some malicious cookie planted on my browser (this includes checking my Hotmail account ).

8th August 2003, 21:55	#32
Bilbo Baggins Wind Chime of the Apocalypse Join Date: May 2000 Location: The Forest Posts: 17,228	I hate people who moan about the design or layout of pages. Not everyone who creates a webpage is some design guru with a phD in putting lines of HTML together.

9th August 2003, 15:26	#35
Bilbo Baggins Wind Chime of the Apocalypse Join Date: May 2000 Location: The Forest Posts: 17,228	www.entmoot.co.uk is very bad.

9th August 2003, 17:14	#36
WomanOfHeart Major Dudette Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Somewhere no one can find me...in my own head. Posts: 978	You're right, Bilbo. It's completely and utterly shameless.

9th August 2003, 18:10	#37
killswitch1968 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Sverige Posts: 434	SItes that aren't multi-browser compatible They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards you hear satanic messages. That's nothing, if you play it forwards it installs Windows.

13th August 2003, 17:28	#38
zootm Forum King Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: the nether reaches of bonnie scotland Posts: 13,375	orisinal is fantastic. i have a friend who just plays pocketful of stars non-stop, with a huge smile on her face.

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