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I'm Melissa; pretend journalist and currently real-life accountant wannabe. I used to be a kid in highschool, but I've since kicked the habit. At 18 years of age I'm just moving through life, enjoying my free-time and earning lots of money whilst still living with my parents. Continued on page 2...
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*Angry face*
May 26, 2005 | Filed under: Bitching, Online Stuff

“And I'm sorry about all the lies, maybe in a different light you could see me stand on my own again. Cause now I can see you were the antidote that got me by - something strong like a drug that got me high. Crossfade - Cold”

Okay.. so I was just randomly browsing the internet as I so often do, looking around at what there is to find; during my wanderings I stumbled across a number of things which seriously pissed me off in relation to the things people do with their coding. Instead of taking out my frustration Kev (he was getting kinda scared :P), I opened this up and here it goes.

Useless Javascripts
Get your goddamned javascripts out of your head section! You DO NOT need to put a no right clicking script in your head, in fact it infuriates me when you do. Not only does this mean I’m unable to right click absent-mindedly when I’m reading your site, but I cannot right click with my scrollwheel to open one of your links in a firefox tab (noting that I wouldn’t care so much if you weren’t dictating that your links open in a new window - which, by the way, was very rude of you). Add this to the frustration that’s imposed upon me when I’m unable to vaguely highlight and unhighlight the text I’m reading, and you get a really annoyed visitor.

Please note, even if you were actually a good coder, and I so desired to rip off your code or your images, your “clever” use of javascript isn’t going to stop me from doing it. If I were really that desperate for your code/images, I could simply click “View Source” and find the URLs for myself. Yeah, you tell me that you don’t care what I think because you’re your own person and you don’t care about one less visitor to your site and I can just “click off the x in the top corner” - well sorry sunshine, but chances are you do care because secretly we’re all hitwhores and I doubt it’s just me that’s being turned off by this. Listen and learn.

Banners
I don’t just mean ordinary banners, I’m fine with people trying to make money from their sites - space and bandwidth isn’t cheap. But I can’t count the number of sites recently that I’ve seen with the “MakePovertyHistory” banners in the top right or left corners of their page. Not only does your banner look stupid, it detracts from your actual site and content, and you probably didn’t make a donation to the cause anyway. If you want the humanitarian of the year award, try doing something that actually counts, rather than just following a trend like every other person with a website.

Requirements
As foreign as it may seem, people aren’t meant to actually have requirements plastered all over their superfluous splash pages. The idea of being a good designer is that you, the designer, can make your website compatible with as many resolutions and browsers as humanly possible. You can’t dictate what an internet user’s browser is going to be when they enter your website - if you have IE 5+ as a requirement on your website, I’m not going to take note that you want me to use that, when I much prefer using Mozilla Firefox. If your site doesn’t work in my browser, I’m just going to dismiss you as one of those designer newbies who can’t seem to get their site compatible - and leave. I’m not going to change browser for you. I’m not going to change resolution for you. Don’t for a second think that your requirements mean anything to me, or the majority of standards compliance fans out there. I think I’ve had a good bitch about this before, but one thing that really set this off for me was that I was having a look at a review site (can’t remember which one, I’ve looked at a lot recently) - and in their Rules for submission they mentioned that it’s a good practise to have your requirements on either an index or splash pace. What the?


Composed by Melissa at 11:26pm · 1 Wrote in

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