5 things that will make me leave your website

Published: May 16, 2008, 4:34 pm

Tags: around the net, daily random, design, pet peeves, website

I am by no means a web guru of any kind, nor do I claim to be an expert site designer/writer. I am, however, an avid user of the internet and frequent reader of many blogs. I surf a lot. I visit new sites every day. If I like them, I will bookmark them, or add them to my blogroll. But then there are those sites that offend my sense of aesthetics and usability so badly that I have no choice but to leave the site. NOW. QUICK. BEFORE ZE GERMANS GET HERE. Music/sound that plays automatically. Please, just don’t. I know you might LOVE Kelly Clarkson or Kanye West or who-/whatever, but at least give me the option to press play myself if I love them as well. Flashing backgrounds. Do you surf your own website with all styles disabled? No? Then I can see no legitimate reason for you not to have noticed yourself how horrible the background is. Netspeak. People have said it before, and people will without a doubt say it after me. Netspeak is an abomination. I will agree that it has its

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