Comments on: 6 Ways To Subliminally Tell Users “Don’t Come Back”

By: Chase

Chase — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:57:40 +0000

@Tristan: The best thing to do, is not optimize for you IE kids, and just let the site suck when viewed in IE. I like the Youtube dropped ie6.

By: tbela99

tbela99 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:22:42 +0000

the reason #5 is the worst IMO, I discovered one day that a website I have to maintain was very slow because it was serving 3.5Mb per image displayed at 100×100 pixels.
the thing I did to solve did was to write a plugin that scan html for images and then resize them if any dimension is defined.

By: IRS Tax Form

IRS Tax Form — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:51:03 +0000

Click my name — if this ain’t the epitome of DON”T COME BACK….I don’t know what is.

It took me 5 tries to get through to page 2 (and there are 5 total).
I gave up after that.

By: CS

CS — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:56:11 +0000

I think when you said no AJAX in the menu you must have been HIIII..lol.
Anyone who does not use AJAX for naviagation would either be in the stone age or have to much time on their hands.

Let me ask you, do you like waiting around for each page to load when click on it?
Sorry, once a site is loaded each click should only load the content the user wants not the whole damn site each and every time…very annoying when this happens.

By: Unreal Media

Unreal Media — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:33:08 +0000

The only plugins I accept are Flash. At a push, Silverlight. But thats about it.

By: Ruslan Abuzant

Ruslan Abuzant — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:22:04 +0000

Well done David, i think my website just passed your list examination :D

By: Hugh Williams

Hugh Williams — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:17:42 +0000

One thing that really annoys me about a website, is when they force affiliated advertising on you. Say for example in the form of a pop up or splash screen, usually animated, that you HAVE to sit through/watch, in order to be able to click through or get redirected to the page containing the content you really want to view. Very annoying, especially when the advert has absolutely nothing to do with what you are looking for!

By: Jack Bremer

Jack Bremer — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:47:11 +0000

Flash Menu systems – why oh why would you put the entire site navigation in a 3rd party plugin system? So many corporate visitors won’t have Flash allowed on their machine by their IT department, so this approach is immediately killing off a certain % of site visitors.

Most annoying thing though IMHO, is sites with content pasted from Word – complete with ugly Microsoft CSS styling and long hyphens, angled apostrophes and quotemarks and the dreaded …
When these are used in a title, it can completely screw up a Google Sitemap or RSS feed!

Also, poorly chosen text encoding which makes £ signs appear as ? drives me nuts.

By: Owen Smith

Owen Smith — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:07:19 +0000

@Rich Owings

The functionality of that is different between the editors. The peeve mentioned in the article was when the thumbnail was simply re-sized of the large image, continuing to take up it’s 6.7MB of bandwidth for its 80x80px real estate.

The proper way to do a thumbnail is for it to be saved separately so it can result in a much quicker page load, one of the reasons for having a thumbnail in the first place.

Also, to extend on this; in some cases there isn’t reason to save your large file as 100% Quality, taking up 1MB in space, when you can save at 75%, with little visual difference, and a much smaller file.

One of the bigger problems I have with sites is when they require cookies even though I do not need to login or set preferences. I browse the web with cookies disabled, adding exceptions as I see fit, and when I went to post this comment I was told I needed to enable cookies. This is in no way your fault, it is the wordpress system, but can be a slight nuisance.

By: Rich Owings

Rich Owings — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:46:38 +0000

I’m confused. My WYSIWYG editor offers to create a thumbnail of whatever size I want. What are the downsides of doing this as opposed to doing it in PhotoShop?