Hedir Review : Things you dislike in a website!!!

Jackie · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 357 23604 Hedir Points

Personally, I dislike so much of ads, hell lot links, bad designing, crawling horizontal bar for more info. There are some more which I'm not able to remember.

What do you hate ?

AlphaWebDesigns · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:57 pm Post subject:

Overuse of ads; scrolling text ; anything blinking ; audio & video that starts automatically ; audio with no STOP button.

Content that is repetitive and doesn't say anything useful.

Poor quality photos.

That's my main list Smile

Plus all the things you said, Jackie.

Cruise Cat · Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 116 5550 Hedir Points

Like ya'all have already mentioned. I hate anything blinking / distracting. I hate too many ads. I also hate pages / links that are broken.

PCBguy · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:58 pm Post subject:

In addition the items listed above, my personal "Grrr" list includes sites that put important information, like contact info, in an image without an alt tag. If it was text, it would be easy to copy and paste in my contact database. Try to make things easy for your end users.

Another thing is inconsistent navigation. Main parts of the site should be accessible from every page with the same navigation. Again.. easy for your visitors is a good thing!

OK.. I'm off my soapbox now. Wink

Incoming Sound · Joined: 25 Feb 2007 Posts: 24 1500 Hedir Points

Overuse of ads
audio & video that starts automatically!! Big no no
Pop-up and i hit the [X]
audio with no STOP button.. i always run music in the background and they clash
Grammar, eg 733t
Poor layout
Hard to navigate

JerryMaguire · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 104 5985 Hedir Points

So much Ads, I too find them annoying, though they generate income, but in my opinion they degrade the visitor experience too much. Apart from that I hate pop-ups and interstitials (stuff that flies across your screen).

Henry G · Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 114 15391 Hedir Points

1. Waffle text for padding sakes.

2. Lack of proper contrast between text foreground and background.

3. Claiming to follow some W3C standard when all pages fail. The odd mistake(s) is/are Ok-(ish).

4. Claiming a site to be Accessible when it fails miserably. Claiming a site to be of high accessibility (ie level 3 WAI) when it barely passes Level 1. IMHO that is criminal.

I am not bother if a site follows W3C standard, if it's accessible or not.
But I find it v wrong to stick badges when they fail.

4. If a site is overstuffed with ads, flying-ads and pop-ups I close it immediately. Such an auto-reflex I am not even aware they exist! (Hence almost forgot to mention as a complaint). Oh yeah if they play-music too.

5. Sites that make me think. I am not very clever ya know. Please don't make me think! (Isn't that the title of some book? )

6. Treacly Slow.

offthedome · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 5:45 am Post subject:

Varying layouts and layout themes from page to related page.

I also hate popups. Especially JavaScript popups that come up with the [X] tiny and hidden nicely in the bottom left corner or something equally annoying. OOH I hate that.

consumerism · Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 771 21940 Hedir Points

anything flashing or moving around. Forms that ask for my name, address, phone, etc for no apparent reason, especially without a privacy policy. Tiny light grey text.

hallmike · Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 1:45 am Post subject:

I hate the floating animated Flash ads that come sliding in from the side and obscure the page, along with pop-ups/unders and automatic music

Discovery · Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 111 14860 Hedir Points

I hates side which takes lots of time to open & contains lots of images, flash files, too many ads, lots of links and so on..

roksolana · Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 1:25 pm Post subject:

I've read this topic and understand that people should like my site I submitted to this directory Very Happy

It is really the worst thing to play music and video on your visitor's machines Exclamation

roksolana · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:29 pm Post subject:

Also I don't like sites that offer "free" services which turn to paid after some time

Jackie · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 357 23604 Hedir Points

mojo2185 · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:12 am Post subject:

I'll jump on the bandwagon and agree with pretty much everything everyone else has said so far.

As my own addition to the list:
I hate websites (especially ones for small businesses) that have multiple links pages. In most cases, the links are completely irrelevant and are an obvious attempt to get backlinks to improve page rank. For example, I was viewing a website that is trying to sell jewelry, and in the links section, it had multiple links to "car" websites. I doubt cars have anything to do with the jewelry they are trying to sell.