Comments on: Top 25 Most Common Website Mistakes

By: delicious webdesign

delicious webdesign — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:50:14 +0000

lol at animated gifs ! I agree they are a bit dated but can be used effectively (if done tastefully)
you can have revolving logos that are quite lightweight and eye catching (avoiding the use of javascript or flash)

By: Dale

Dale — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:41:06 +0000

@Chris

I hate websties that force maximum browser size it makes me feel violated!!

By: Blogging for money

Blogging for money — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:11:54 +0000

Man, I’ve had tons of problems validating CSS on IE… In fact, still having!

[Hating IE]

Great post Dan.

By: Dan Harrison

Dan Harrison — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:50:11 +0000

Whoa! Great reply!

Great points and completely agree about large images. I don’t think background audio would interfere with screenreaders, as I believe they’ll just filter it out.

Dan

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:38:42 +0000

Splash pages
My biggest hate of all. Really off putting and time wasting and yet I still see so many websites use them. As a customer the less I have to do to get to where or what I want the better. I don’t want to have to pointlessly action things or go through stages that are completly irrelevant to the purpose of my visit to your site.

Irrelevant images.
I see alot of websites using images that arent relevant to the content and are simply to break up the monotony of the lacking page design and mass of body text. It comes accross as cheap and distracting.

Over use of images/images where there doesnt need to be.
Recently a major online retailer Had an image which had to be about 600px in width and well over 1000px in height on the homepage. (as i had to scroll down a fair way to reach the bottom, i think my scroll button on the mouse felt somewhat abused)

The image consisted of mostly text, and maybe a couple of images of the product and company logo as well as cheap backdrop and gradient effects. It was slow loading and extremely poor quality. The entire image was also acting as a giant call to action button linking to the product it was advertising. Which I guess is fairly effective as you couldnt really miss it or avoid clicking it

It was just really cheap looking, slow loading and off putting. Really made me question my visit and ultimately caused my exit from the site.

I agree with point 7 it would also apear in my top 10 dislikes, I’m also curious though if having audio (background music) on your website would interfer with users that have a screen reader?

By: Gaurav

Gaurav — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:50:42 +0000

I have tried to avoid most of them in the recent past, but still are some prevailing.

By: Dale

Dale — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:29:12 +0000

I have to confess I am guilty of lots of these! Some great pointers here thanks Dan.

By: Dan Harrison

Dan Harrison — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:03:58 +0000

Security? What’s that? Default passwords, one user level, unchecked fields…. that’s the way to go baby.

By: Property Courses

Property Courses — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:50:19 +0000

I was on quite a big website last night that outputted PHP errors. Maybe this a pet peeve from a developer’s standpoint. But if you’re running a professional/secure site, you should never output errors, but instead log them in a log file.

Personal peeve of mine!

By: Dan Harrison

Dan Harrison — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:58:59 +0000

Interesting idea about contactify. I’ll look into that, thanks!