More and more I have been noticing that people have been adding some really annoying and stupid warnings on thier sites… What warnings am I talking about? “This site requires Internet Explorer”, “Best if viewed at 1024 by 768 resolution”, and so on… This is telling me that you refuse to take the time to make your site work in all browsers and all resolutions, that you are lazy. Please take the time, it makes your site that much better. I have tried my site on resolutions 800 by 600 and up, and every browser that I can think of. I want it to be viewable by anyone who may actually want to read it, view it, yadda yadda.

I have been noticing alot more un-needed splash screens. This has really been getting on my nerves, the only time I ever use them is when i am testing a new site and I want to announce it, sometimes I don’t even do that. I want to click as little as possible to get to what I want to get at, if the splash takes to long to load, I won’t even continue to your site… Which kinda brings me to my next annoyance… Requiring people to register before they can view something on your site. I have been seeing this alot on tutorial sites, and I simply close that tab and go to another. The last thing I want to do is register on yet another site, I am a member of alot as it is. If I wanted to join your site, I will, but by you forcing me, I will just simply never visit it again. I know what you may be thinking “You force me to register here by putting in my email address”. No i don’t, it is required to prevent spam, and to set a cookie so that you can be remembered, I only ever look at the email address if the post looks like spam, and I have never emailed a address used to comment unless the comment poster asked me specifically.

There are alot more things that have been annoying me about websites, but those are the highest on the list. I’ll touch on some more later.