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We`ve had a number of threads that discuss what you should do to create a great website.  Having just experienced what I am about to describe below, I thought it might be just as helpful (if not slightly amusing) to discuss what about a website makes you leave immediately with the promise to never return...

• Websites that blast music or any type of audio as soon as it loads.
  
  
• The only thing worse (at this moment) is the same site that also doesn`t let you turn it off!!!

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Flash that has no value besides to be "flashy".  I don`t mind a little flash (my own site has some) but when it doesn`t make sense, then it`s annoying (like opening pages in Flash that you have to bypass to get into the site).

~Kim

Sites that fall apart in Mozilla Firefox or Opera.

C`mon, people. It`s the World Wide Web, not the Microsoft Internet Explorer Web. Design and test your sites on more than just MSIE.


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Sites that use popups, popunders, or any advertising that scrolls / blocks the actual content.

Hear, hear, on the annoying music and the stupid Flash. That, and GIF animation. Oy!

I`ll add hyooge blocks of text with no paragraph breaks, and text on backgrounds that make it almost impossible to read whatever is in that text.

The other is on sales sites where I can`t find out "How #@$)# much does the damn product cost!?"

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craig

All the above.

Plus, web sites that don`t support Safari 10.3.9. (example - all GAP, Inc.
companies).

Craig - your post made me think of this:

Our local community college teaches web design, yet every time I access
their web site I have a hard time finding what I`m looking for. Something
as simple as a school calendar such be a click away on the home page,
not buried deep within the site.

along with all that was stated above... sites that are built for the PC user and not the Mac user in mind. 20 years ago they said Mac would die and everyone would be using a PC. Today, Mac users are on the rise and they are more connected to the brand than PC users.

So please oh please design your site with Mac users also. It doesn`t take much more work... just knowledge.


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Vincent Wilcox (a.k.a. KRAKR)
Drummer
My band: Letters Make Words

Very much in agreement here.  Sites that make you search all over to figure out how to contact someone, for the answer to a simple question, drive me nuts (or at least nuttier).

- J.



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Jeff Fisher | Jeff Fisher LogoMotives | Tweet! Tweet!

I have to join the volley here. 

One of my biggest pet peeves are websites that are one big image!  This is where the designer simply created one image and used some software to slice and dice it into a website (usually using an automated tool). 

The text is often smoothed, small and blurry...you can`t copy and paste any text...and the site takes forever to load.  (since the images themselves are often far to large (in file size) for a website.

Unecessary Flash and autoplay music are above this on the list...but you`ve covered these thoroughly above.

(now let me frantically go through our site and make sure we aren`t on any of your pet peeve lists!!!! )

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Brian Cleveland,
Web Producer,
StartupNation