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This post has been edited by mastercomputers: Sep 24 2004, 11:39 AM

I've read this before and consider it copied. Please do not do this again.

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ok, that was stupid of me. i was writing them myself when i found the site mastercomputers mentioned. i copy-pasted it and forgot to mention my source. really sorry about that. back to the topic now.
post the things you find most irritating about websites. most of them will probably be mentioned in the list at the mentioned site, but you might want to tell why

-to much animation. i want to read the site relaxed. if i'm reading an interesting text, animations will kill my attention. also, people will be less focused on what you have to say. i'd say: use max. 1 animation, and use it only to draw the attention for an important message.

-a picture as background. you know, a colourfull, crowdy picture of a field of flowers or something like that. it's hard to read with such a background.

-a green background and a blue font: make sure there is a lot of contrast between text and background. white with black text or something like that.

-use light backgrounds, it makes the user more relaxed.

-don't use music on your site, or give the user the option to turn it off. most of the people already have some music playing when they are surfing the net.

-crazy looking fonts are cool... but sometimes hard to read. use them for titles and logos, not for long texts.

-adjust your pictures for the web. use only gif, jpg or png. resize them so they fit in a window. they have to load fast. keep their size under 70kb. a tutorial can be found in the graphics section (for photoshop). if the page loads too slow, users get nervous and often just leave.

-thumbnails should be seperate images. don't just use height="100" width="100" properties in the img tags. make a tiny image with your photo program or by scripting language (php does the job easily)

-about hyperlinks: adjust their style, blue underlined often doesn't fit nice in your site. but make sure users can still easily detect them. don't make them the same as the rest of the text! links to other pages of your site should open in the same window. links to other people's sites should open in a new window.


now add yours!