35 Deadly Web Site Sins
I receive a newsletter from Site Pro News and the topic of this weeks newsletter was "35 Deadly Web Site Sins". Thought I would share it as it makes a pretty good check list.
"35 Deadly Web Site Sins".
- Poor load time
- Poor overall appearance
- Spelling/Grammar
- No contact information
- Poor content
- Poor navigation
- Broken links and graphics
- Poor browser compatibility
- Large slow loading graphics
- Too many graphics
- Pages scrolling to oblivion
- Multiple use of animated graphics
- Animated bullets
- Too many graphic and/or line dividers
- Busy, distracting backgrounds
- Multiple banners and buttons
- Poor use of frames
- Large fonts
- Pop up messages
- Over use of java
- Poor use of tables
- Poor organization
- Different backgrounds on each page
- Over powering music set to autoplay
- Confusing
- Too much advertising
- Large Welcome banners
- Multiple colored text
- Text difficult to read
- No Meta tags
- Multiple use of different fonts
- Under construction signs
- Scrolling text in the status bar
- Large scrolling text across the page
- Poor use of mouse over effects
Here is the link to the archived newsletter if you want to read the whole thing: http://www.sitepronews.com/archives/2001/dec/3.html
Busy posted this at 21:04 — 5th December 2001.
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Some of those are the same thing (graphic things), but they did forget the blinking and marqueeing and I wont take Busy, distracting backgrounds personaly
hehe.
also think bad use of flash should be on there too.
One thing on the list "Spelling/Grammar" is a hard one universaly, NZ uses the english english, not the USA's english (if that makes sense) so my spelling and gramer always fails spelling and gramer checks. but in general most words are spelt the same, unless I spell in Maori (native NZ language) and no spell checker knows what I'm on about lol
Brian Farkas posted this at 02:53 — 6th December 2001.
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You might want to look at this page, as well: http://www.coolhomepages.com/cda/10commandments/ -- The Cool Home Pages 10 (really 28) commandments of web site design
disaster-master posted this at 03:40 — 6th December 2001.
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Hey those are much better. They are similar to the Thou Shalt thread that I believe Webmistress started a while back.
Megan posted this at 17:21 — 6th December 2001.
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Oh, I just have to add some of my biggest pet peeves.
Thou shalt not use screen captures of windows alert boxes and make them into banner ads. This must be particularly annoying to Mac people.
Thou shalt not use screen caputres of form boxes and put them in banner ads.
Thou shalt not try to trick people. Period. Especially when your methods of trickery are really lame.
Thou shalt not try to fake a computer interface for use in other media.
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Brian Farkas posted this at 01:02 — 7th December 2001.
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That really gets to me too... I thought they were a nice idea when they first came out - around 3-4 years ago - but apparently people haven't learned to let it go.
mairving posted this at 02:01 — 7th December 2001.
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Thou shalt never, ever even consider disabling the back button in my browser.
disaster-master posted this at 15:09 — 7th December 2001.
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Speaking of disabling the back button....have you ever gotten really angry and sent an e mail to someone that has done that telling them how rude they are to try and keep you on their web site like that?
I have.
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