Showing posts with label Jeff Culbreath. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeff Culbreath. Show all posts

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.