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Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002
yoey writes "Another famous Nielsen year-end wrapup: "Every year brings new mistakes. In 2002, several of the worst mistakes in Web design related to poor email integration. The number one mistake, however, was lack of pricing information, followed by overly literal search engines.""
And in 1992 the winner of this award would have gotten it for having a plain website, because blink tags were oh so cool...
You know what's a nice usability feature? A server that can handle the load. You click on the link, the page loads. Nielsen should get one of them.
Forgetting to prepare server for /. effect
One word: Flash.
Two words: Flash Intro
Yeah sure, it can be done right, but the other 99.9% of the time I hate the world.
-Rabbit
For the love of god man! Learn to use the
tag...
You have no spirit of adventure. Suppose that I hit a toaster manufacturer page looking for some technical data on a toaster. It is a very thrilling experience to click the "products" link and have to choose between "wooden products", "red&yellowish products", "other products", "products other than all of the above" and "guess where this link will take you". The products->toasters->specific model path is just boring when compared to that.
The URL for this article has 70 characters, which is less then the 75 mentioned in mistake number 9. Of course, the post comment page is 109 characters, so I won't be giving it out to anyone over the phone very soon.
I could not agree more. Although I have always found it more amusing when companies that sell products for the Macintosh have web sites that cannot be viewed from a Mac. Like it would have been that hard to test.
Not letting people post their extremely witty comments anonymously so they can not look like an ass with their fake name attached to it.
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail51.html
"wooden products", "red&yellowish products", "other products", "products other than all of the above" and "guess where this link will take you"
A tactit commenly employed is to group products by the model name. This is especially effective if the name is Scandinavian, or Swahili. Trying to find the toaster you saw in the store yesterday when the choices are "Knopox", "Ikbaan", "Fnafbert" and "Aaaaaaarghbaad" is definatly a good way to enduce a seizure in your users.
For everyone's sake, I hope you meant gripe session.
At this point I would suggest writing down the name of the aforementioned toaster while in the aforementioned store. The psychic plugin for mozilla is on the way but not yet available. Until then customers who are searching for something are advised to have reasonable search terms.
Woe be on to them, all who rise against poor people, shall perish in a the end. Buju Banton
Too Much,
Flash, and
Animation is triply redundant.
How about search engines that ignore words of 3 characters or less? ;)
Jeez! You mean the same guy who does the ads in the back of the stereo and camera magazines is now doing web pages? :-)
As for Veritas... I suspect the reason that they have no prices is that they'd just put you off wanting to use their software. Plus they probably will be flexible in the pricing anyway if they think that they could negotiate a little bit to get you to sign the license agreement. (Just watch out when they decide that the discount you originally got will no longer be available when it's time to renew the support agreement. And, of course, they've got you by the short hairs as it would be pretty disruptive to switch backup software.)
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