What users hate most - Page 6

**LazyJim** · 06-29-2007, 12:43 PM

hello dburr99

cabdirazzaq · 07-11-2007, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by DaveyBoy

The only reason for not using the right hand column for important stuff is that it might get cut off in lower resolutions, and hardly anyone will bother scrolling to the right to use the nav, they will just leave your web site instead.

I used to use the right side for the nav just to be different, but then i realised what was happening and reverted back to top or left navigation

Most people use a higher resolution these days anyway, right?

**Cricket** · 07-11-2007, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by cabdirazzaq

Most people use a higher resolution these days anyway, right?

That depends a lot on your particular visitors, but even 10% of your visitors is a lot of people to ignore.

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp

bnandika · 09-08-2007, 05:26 AM

I think users hate a site with too many bright color

guinanie · 09-08-2007, 07:42 AM

What the users hate most for a site are the following:
1. The users usually go to a site with attractive , simple design and with a lot of content.
2. Users don't want a site with large graphics or images that cause slow loading. Flashy effect would be fine, but need to consider the loading time.
3.

paranoidandroid · 09-16-2007, 02:21 PM

Have come to this post late so apologies if some of these have already been covered -

1. Music that starts as soon as I land on a page, give me the option to play it if I want to - don't force it on me, otherwise the chances are I will leave and never return.

2. I have nice big screen 24" and for obvious reasons I choose not to have my browser window maximised, so please don't force my browser to resize and fill my screen, it makes your site look bad and makes me want to close it.

3. Don't have a splash page with an 'enter site button' I already made the choice to visit your site so I would rather get to the content with as few clicks as possible.

4. Overuse of flash, I have a decent connection and I am used to websites loading in 1-2 seconds, so if you have built your entire site in flash I am going to get impatient even if we are only talking 10-15 seconds. Chances are I might move on before the page loads.

jxb10 · 10-18-2007, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by waffles

He didn't mention music at all though. I hate it most when someone hijacks my speakers. The only time I don't have something I want coming out of them is when my roommate's asleep. And it always turns out that I forget to turn them off and something comes blasting out.

I agree. I can't stand when I load a site and some one starts talking or they have music playing. I'm listening to my own music I don't need yours! If you have someone or something talking, make it easy to shut off or give an option to turn it on. I will leave a site right away and not come back when something starts talking.

2mymall · 10-19-2007, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by DaveyBoy

I used to use the right side for the nav just to be different, but then i realised what was happening and reverted back to top or left navigation

Use the left for navigation if it suits your site but beware of using your top for navigation because some search robots use the words at the top as your site's keywords.

Just my 2pn worth advice.

2mymall · 10-19-2007, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by waffles

Splash pages. Why can't I just go to your site? Are you trying to anger me? I hate them more than music.

LOL! Agree.

Plus! I might not even like the music on your site.

2mymall · 10-19-2007, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by spyderscripts

PHP is training wheels without the bike

Isn't that what programming languages are for?

digiweb · 10-19-2007, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Hades

Amen brother!

There are two things I do when I visit almost any website on my Firefox (with the Webdeveloper Extension):
1-Press CTRL + SHIFT + S, which means deactivating CSS in order to check the document's semantics.
2-Press CTRL + U, in firefox to view how clean the <head> block is.

Sometimes also press CTRL + SHIFT + A to validate it's XHTML markup. But many websites fail to comply with this rule

Funny thought because if you press ctrl shift a on this page you get 104 errors.

YET it's a successful site with great content and ranking.

I am dubious of the value of xhtml in web pages. On web pro world I've read stories of people xhtml'izing their sites and losing ranking. I think it happened to my site but I can't be sure because there were too many variables during the time period.

digiweb · 10-19-2007, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by dburr99

Oh this room has gotten a little crazy.... so what happens if I use some other code such as .asp for my site design and then configure my .htaccess to make it say .php? I realize that is like registering as a democrat and calling yourself a republican. Not mention I usually use the .htaccess to eliminate all extensions and variables since it helps your security and search engine friendliness.

You're evil.

I like that.

digiweb · 10-19-2007, 07:56 PM

Did we get this one yet? Intentional popups that resize the browser to smaller than full width, load a page wider than the browser and turn off browser resizing.

UndercoverGenie · 01-30-2008, 04:03 PM

I feel right hand side has been neglected not because its an ad-only space. People generally read from left to right. So by the time they reach the right end, they move down?

No, this wasn't supposed to be a joke.

Cordell · 02-16-2008, 03:19 PM

I hate hoverads - especially the ones with the nervous shake. You've seen the videos of the man throwing his computer monitor. . . If I see another hoverad, I may do the same thing.