OT: Poor Web Design

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting D . Thomas Podnar (Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:17:39 -0500):

> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 02:13:22PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> >
> > All web ``designers'' should be required to work with dialup modems!
>
> I heartily disagree, Bill.
>
> I think all web ``designers'' should target their web site to the likely
> capabilities of their desired market.
[...]

But they also need to at least take into account the rest of the web
world.

I visited a website the other day that never loaded.  I checked it out
using SamSpade and found that their web "designer" designed it in such
a way as to put the browser in an infinite loop if you didn't accept
cookies.  (It would force a reload with an http 304 status code if the
cookies weren't set.)

To this day, you still can't use staples.com without cookies enabled.
In fact, it's gotten worse.  It used to be that you couldn't search
the website without cookies.  Now, you can't even get to the main
page.

I've seen web sites where the main page contains a single SWF file,
without any links to other pages should ShockWave not be loaded.  (Or
those that contain a huge SWF file with no "skip intro" type link,
requiring the entire file be loaded before you can continue.)

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