[thelist] [OT] Terrible Websites

[Jonathan_A_McPherson at rl.gov]

Someone needs to invent a scoring system for those things...

- 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