OT: Poor Web Design

[D . Thomas Podnar]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 07:11:42PM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> 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.
Agreed.

> 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.)

That doesn't seem too smart.

> 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.

So? Cookies aren't all bad. Some are quite useful. And a web designer
at Staples thought he/she could provide the best possible customer experience
by using them. He/she obviously doesn't remember when browsers had poor
cookie management.

> 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.)

While I personally wouldn't do that, I can think of sites where that is
a good idea, just as I can think of sites where that is a BAD idea but
is done anyway.

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Tom