What you hate from some Web Sites

[Andreex]

So... I am working on a proyect for school. It is going to be about common errors (design errors, usability errors, security errors, programming errors) you find on some web sites.

So I want to ask the people around here about something that they have notice on web sites that doesnt work well or that it is upseting to the user.

You dont have to trash talk, well you can if you want to!!, but point at one or many problems and if you want at a posible solution(s).

I apprciate your help!!

[Andreex]

oh... also you could write things you have liked from web sites that you have found helpful.....

[TheVader]

• Popups
• Ads and banners
• Unreadable fonts or colors
• Pages that are not cross-browser compatible (I'm using Firefox)

[mendhak]

* Poor navigation on a site.
* Pages going overboard with graphics
* Entire site in a flash, taking ages to load.
* Too many colors. It's not appealing, it's irritating.
* <marquee>
* <blink>
* Pink.

[MartinLiss]

The thing I hate most are pages that don't allow you to back out via the Back button. That and color schemes that are nearly unreadable on my PC.

[visualAd]

Things like this:
http://www.curekidscancer.com/noie1.htm

If you are not using IE, click here:
http://www.curekidscancer.com/

[TheVader]

Originally posted by visualAd
Things like this:
http://www.curekidscancer.com/noie1.htm

If you are not using IE, click here:
http://www.curekidscancer.com/

That's just rude. The strange this is, if you navigate to the page with Firefox it looks fine; the same as in IE. So... why are they commenting on your browser choice?

[visualAd]

Originally posted by TheVader
That's just rude. The strange this is, if you navigate to the page with Firefox it looks fine; the same as in IE. So... why are they commenting on your browser choice?

I don't understand that either. They are just sad wannabe geeks who have just realised what they can use the User-Agent string for.

Next we'll see the message:

"We have detected you are not using Windows....."

[hellswraith]

<rant>
You know what I say to Internet users who come to my site and complain that it was designed for IE only....!@#$ off. It is my site and I can do what I want. I don't care if you use Firefox, no one makes you. No one is making you come to my site either. If Firefox was soooo great, then it would have some IE compatibility built in so you wouldn't have problems on sites that were geared toward IE browsers.
</rant>

Sorry. I just hate the argument that every site should be built thinking of every browser. I do think that if you are a business, and you want to appeal to the widest audience, then you will cater, but it is still a business decision.

I know I have offended the ANTI IE crowd, but I needed to get that off my chest. Now I can get back to coding my IE only site...lol.

[hellswraith]

After some thought, I am going to be adding a feature to my site (since I have to redo everything anyway) that checks if you are using IE. If not, then I will put some kind of nagging message on the top of the page. It will be fun and inspire some good conversations...lol.

[METALRAGE]

is is true that if u use xhtml coding, ALL browsers would be able to view it without much fault?

[TheVader]

Originally posted by METALRAGE
is is true that if u use xhtml coding, ALL browsers would be able to view it without much fault?

XHTML is stricter than HTML, so you have to stick to the rules if you want to use it. Therefore, pages in XHTML are better written than those in HTML, and that's why they are usually cross-browser compatible. So XHTML does not guarantee compatibility, but it's more common for sure.

Anyway, XHTML is the future mark-up language for websites, so you should use it.

[Electroman]

Yeah but XHTML is all with lowercase tags, I can't stand that, I always use Uppercase tag names. Converting my site would take me absolutly ages pluss I preffer uppercase.

To be honest I think the next version of browsers should just cut out all the rubish they have supported that isn't in the standards. Like IE's events that only it has. This way there will be a rush of sites that suddenly become incompatible but it will force people to create their sites compatible to the standards (and as a result all browsers).

I try to keep my site compatible but I wouldn't be surprised if its not totally . e.g. I use the <BR /> tags which I shouldn't because I declare it as:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

[visualAd]

PHP + Regular Expressions == Convert your entire site in 30 seconds.

I think its important to follow standards becuase not only does it ensure your site reaches the widest audience it also makes it easier for blind people and those with disabilities to view your site accurately.

I've heard of lawsuits against companies who only make offers available on-line and only let those people with Javascript or who are using IE take advantage of these offers - meaning that people with sight problems cannot use the site. That I blieve is quite a serious offence under the disability descrimination act.

If you can get your site to work in browsers such as Lynx and Links then you'll probably be fine.

[alkatran]

Check if it's IE, if it isn't... just display the source... say that you were still allowing them to access the contest... they just had to be able to read HTML .

[Madboy]

What i hate about websites is when they dont open Delphi forums........*HINT

[Electroman]

What i hate about websites is when people use the ChitChat forum as a Delphi forum

[Madboy]

Originally posted by Electroman
What i hate about websites is when people use the ChitChat forum as a Delphi forum

Should i post it in the Games section then
Where else can i post for help? There are no rules on the content in Chit Chat, apart from porn and abuse etc

[Electroman]

Posted by Madboy
Should i post it in the Games section then

If you like but I can delete them there . (With reason too )

Posted by Madboy
Where else can i post for help? There are no rules on the content in Chit Chat, apart from porn and abuse etc

I hear DelphiForums.com is good .




j/k

[Madboy]

Hehehe, unless i post there and send you a virus, then you cant remove the thread, coz you wont be on the interweb hahaha!

[Electroman]

Posted by Madboy
Hehehe, unless i post there and send you a virus, then you cant remove the thread, coz you wont be on the interweb hahaha!

I then turn the PC on that sits next to this one and whop your ass .

This reminded me of the Troy thread


Hey you should count yourself luck you get away with this in ChitChat here . If you see CodeGuru's forums they even have rules for their ChitChat to stop people going off topic . I guess they just didn't have the inspiration of good old John and VBWorld .

[visualAd]

Originally posted by Electroman
If you see CodeGuru's forums they even have rules for their ChitChat to stop people going off topic

If they tried to do that here - most of us will get banned.

VBForums would die

[Electroman]

Posted by visualAd
If they tried to do that here - most of us will get banned.

VBForums would die

Not to mention they can't delete their own posts or edit the title of the thread (no Resolved Posts). Mind it is really good for C++ problems just a shame its not got the freedone we have .