[thelist] [OT] Terrible Websites
Jonathan_A_McPherson at rl.gov
Jonathan_A_McPherson at rl.gov
Mon Jul 29 16:53:01 CDT 2002
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
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Subject: [thelist] [OT] Terrible Websites
Check out this gem:
www.lsci.com
-joel
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