Comments on: Blog Reading Pet Peeves

By: Betshopboy

Betshopboy — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:45:38 +0000

I can imagine you sieving through all the tabs just to find the nuisense site!

By: Betshopboy

Betshopboy — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:24:38 +0000

Well, what can I say? You are observant!

By: Frank C

Frank C — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:04:59 +0000

Sound that starts automatically is mine too. Unless I’m stumbling I’ll open up a lot of tabs in Firefox or IE7 and when one starts yacking I have to go through every tab to find the offending site.

By: Betshopboy

Betshopboy — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:46:50 +0000

LOL Jason, I like your take on exiting so fast the tracking stat might not even register, you are that fast huh?

Having friends vett the layout, and overall user experience of the site is a good way to iron out the chinks.

By: Betshopboy

Betshopboy — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:42:54 +0000

Thanks Steven, glad you enjoyed and learn something out of it.

By: ジェイソン (Jason)

ジェイソン (Jason) — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:31:36 +0000

Auto-play multimedia is the number one issue for me. If I go to a site and it starts singing (or worse … those darn talking ads!), I’ll hit the back button so fast your stats package might not even register my visit.

There are lots of great site designs out there, but it’d be nice if people had their friends vett the layout before trying to promote their content

By: steven wilson

steven wilson — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:27:16 +0000

I really enjoyed reading your pet peeves post today.You also caught me without a contact form on my blog.I had not really thought of the importance before.I have one now thanks to your pet peeves post.

take care
Steven

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:42:48 +0000

“Even worst if there is no option for users to tuen it off. Having these multimedia “circuses” will also lead to the next point.”

You have violated rule 3 of your own law. Let the counsel judge the…

By: James - DigitalKeyToInfo

James - DigitalKeyToInfo — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:36:00 +0000

Long videos as the post with no text summary about what it is about.
I do not always have time to watch a 10 minute video when two paragraphs of text could explain it.
Video is cool, but use it wisely.

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