[thelist] [OT] Terrible Websites
Simon Willison
simon at incutio.com
Mon Jul 29 20:54:01 CDT 2002
At 14:43 29/07/2002 -0700, Jonathan_A_McPherson at rl.gov wrote:
>Someone needs to invent a scoring system for those things...
Congratulations, you just did :)
Seriously, this is a fantastic idea and you should run with it - stick it
on the web somewhere (maybe as a form) and let people submit sites, then
rank them against each other and try to find the worst (or highest scoring)
one. Definitely an idea who's time has come :)
>- Using a splash page ..
> - with lousy JPEG artifacts: 10 points
> - that downloads very slowly: 5 points
>- Using a right-click disabler script
> - that doesn't do a thing about "View-Source":
> 35 points
>- Using font tags: 15 points
> - ... next to semantic tags: 5 points
> - on every other word: 20 points
> - with dizzying colors: 10 points
>- Being so IE-only that Mozilla won't load it:
> 15 points
>- Opening new windows
> - without warning user: 5 points
> - at random: 10 points
>- Gratuitous overuse of DHTML menus:
> 20 points
> - without alternate nav: 10 points
>- Non-search-engine-friendly URLS:
> 20 points
>- "Fixed" L-shaped navigation: 10 points
> - with jerky DHTML trying to keep it in place:
> 40 points
>- Bloated JavaScript
> - that makes up >50% of page download time:
> 20 points
>- Amateurish and oversized graphics:
> 15 points
>
>Hmmmm... Perhaps this isn't so OT afterall. (-:
>
>--
>Jonathan McPherson, LMIT/SD&I
>Software Engineer & Web Systems Analyst
>email / jonathan_a_mcpherson at rl dot gov
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joel Konkle-Parker [mailto:jjk3 at msstate.edu]
>Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 2:19 PM
>To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>Subject: [thelist] [OT] Terrible Websites
>
>
>Check out this gem:
>
>www.lsci.com
>
>-joel
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