Sunday, January 25, 2009

How to lose traffic and alienate people

Amen.

I'd add three items:
  • If you make music come out of my speakers unexpectedly I'll never visit your website again
  • White text on black is unreadable. I can copy the text and paste it into a text editor, but there's only one d*mn white-on-black page I care enough about to do that.
  • Wordpress's "snapshots" link annoyer. When you accidentally run the mouse over a link, everything stops while some utterly useless preview of the link's webpage appears in a popup. Each popup has a mechanism to disable the annoyance, but it doesn't work. I used to try to disable it every time I visited Jeff Culbreath's otherwise-fine blog, but I've given up - now I just try to navigate carefully to avoid his links since there's a penalty associated with each.

5 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:05 PM

    You should mention (regarding number 1) that you will be upset, unless it is a music site that you chose to visit.

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  2. Anonymous12:43 PM

    How do I get rid of those, Bill? They drive me crazy as well. Please help.

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  3. Hi Jeff! I'll see if I can dig something up.

    Cheers -

    bw

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  4. Jeff -

    - go to http://culbreath.wordpress.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=theme-extras
    - deselect "Enable Snap Shots on this blog" and click "Update Extras >>"
    - then go to your blog and see whether the snapshot thing is gone

    This worked on my test blog at http://rosaryblog.wordpress.com
    (apparently an idea whose time hasn't yet arrived :-).

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