Mithmeoi

I used to be into the reviewing community on yoursite.nu back in 2005-2006 and reviewed a ton of sites while there.  At the time I was nowhere near as expirienced in coding as I am now but that’s not my point in this entry.   I recently got back into reviewing sites at rev.iew.me, which is an excellent site by the way, and I have noticed a ton of trends.  Most of which I find extremely annoying.  So I decided to make a kind of rant about some of the annoying things people do to their sites.

Tiny font- Who decided that tiny font was trendy and a good idea?  They should be slapped.  I have bad eyesite and trying to read pt 8 font is painful, literally.  Uber pet peeve of mine!

Auto play music – One of the most annoying things anyone can put on their site.  It interupts anything the viewer is listening to, and if it’s late at night and say you forget to turn off your speakers…BLAM the whole house is awake.  Just…no don’t do it, it’s not cool.

Blinking text – It’s not horrible but I just find it annoying.  It draws my eyes to it and most of the time it’s nothing important.

Half Naked Celebs – I just want to know why so many teeny bopper girls want these type of layouts.  It makes the page look like a porno wannabe site.

Snow – And other falling objects just piss me off.  Sure they may look kinda cool and it’s like, ‘look what I can do’ but no…they suck.  First of all it bogs the browser and second it’s annoying when the images or whatever get in the way of whatever you are looking at or clicking on.  Avoid it!

Mystery Meat Nav – One of the worst things you can do to your site.  By mystery meat nav I mean a navigation where you can’t tell where the heck the links are going to take you.  Label your navigation links no matter what!

Neon colors – This against a dark background is a killer to the eyes.  Nuff said.

iFrames – They were cool years ago but now they are just ugly and there’s no real purpose for them.

Floating Nav – It’s a neat idea to have your nav float around the edge of the page and always stay on top of the content, BUT it makes it hard to see half the time and most of the time I mistake them for ads so I tend to not pay attention to them.  Incorporate your navs into your layout, it’s just nicer.

Ok that about covers my layout pet peeves.  What are some of yours?