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Post by night on Jul 20, 2008 23:13:33 GMT -5
Are there things that people do to websites that annoys you beyond belief? Do you perhaps hate when people use say, marquee on their website? Discuss them here!
Remember, do not single out a particular website, or a certain person out. This is meant to be friendly discussion, not bashing.
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Post by notreal on Jul 20, 2008 23:19:49 GMT -5
This idea soundz s0 familar
-When a website owner posts his/her link ALL OVER TEH INTARWEBZ in a spammish/annoying way. Bleh, just go away. >.>
-A forum has a banner twice the size of all of its boards combined.
-Somebody has a screenshot, especially with a water mark, as a tiled background. XD lolwtf.
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Post by night on Jul 20, 2008 23:28:07 GMT -5
Lulz ttly. I wonder why.
-When someone uses an uncropped screenshot, usually from ASN, as their banner. What no, you either ask or make your own banner. Spare us, please.
-Blinding colors. Like what, why would you even DO that.
-When someone tells people they will be auto-staff just to get attention and more members. Liek wtf, why would you want someone you hardly know as staff anyways? Dx
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Post by notreal on Jul 20, 2008 23:30:56 GMT -5
twilite zone omg
LOL, I agree!
-When HTML phails and you can see the code....BUT THEY DON'T FIX IT. That bugs me so much. XD
-When administrators don't take the time to learn the admin panel. If you don't want to use your powers to help the forum, don't take the promotion. lulz
-When people use affiliation banners that are 700x300, LOL
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Post by night on Jul 20, 2008 23:37:00 GMT -5
I know. Agreed x497047690427624.
-When staff members don't interact with the forum. How can you know what is best for us when you don't even interact with us? Sure, suggesting ideas is great, but interaction with your forum is equally important.
-When staff member take FOREVER-HIATUSES. Okay, I understand if you are busy, but jeez, it doesn't take that much effort at all to check up on whatever forum you are on. A few minutes tops. >.>
-Proboards gradients. I just don't like them. IMO, they are cheesy and make it seem like you are too lazy to make/get a real layout.
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Post by notreal on Jul 20, 2008 23:42:43 GMT -5
Agreed 10000% on the forum gradients. Those were col back when you made your own, now it's default and lazy.
-When one color is used on an entire website.
-The link color, the text color, and the active link color are all the same hex code. omgwut. >=[
-The banner, background, and buttons are all the same picture.
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Post by kappaofearth on Jul 20, 2008 23:47:11 GMT -5
when they use annoying javascripts to make the window move randomnly when they have ALL MADE IN FLASH LOL, and takes a lot of time to charge
when the have über-heavy gifs of annoying glitter s**t and takes a fackton to load the page
when they have just a bad combination of colors (ie. yellow with light pink)
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Post by night on Jul 20, 2008 23:52:51 GMT -5
Agreed with the glitter stuff, Kappa. Its annoyingly tacky, and the Blingee logo kills everything.
-Music on a website. Srsly, do not want. Chances are, not many people will like your music, and it will usually interfere with whatever music someone is listening to at the moment. I always, ALWAYS have iTunes running in the background, and when some crap music comes on and kills my songs its not col at all.
-On MySpace, when people have a busy background and expect you to read the fluorescent text above it. Do not want.
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Post by kappaofearth on Jul 21, 2008 0:00:52 GMT -5
OH MYSPACE I hate how some of them (specially the otaku ones, that are somewhat ignorant or stupid) don't know how to CONSTRUCT THEIR OWN FRIGGIN PAGE, and just copy the link from some of those myspace codes site they ALWAYS get some ad-filled, bling everywhere, hard-to-read text + BACKGROUND IMAGE FOLLOWING SCROLL BAR/MOUSE WHEEL; PLUS THEIR SHITTTY MUSIC and bulletins, oh those bulletins, they are made to post announcements, NO TO CHAT [/ ] another thing are those that consider themselves LOL RANDUM and go posting every unfunny meme/images they find on their website
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Post by night on Jul 21, 2008 0:05:12 GMT -5
MySpace just makes me angry. The majority of profiles burn my eyes, and I have to scroll FOREVER to reach the middle of their page. Stretched out pages aren't col at all, and honestly, I don't care what your results were on 97442294764 quizzes, who you think is hot, or about any other large images you choose to make your page stretch out forever.
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Post by Blind Bandit on Jul 21, 2008 9:56:36 GMT -5
Lulz ttly. I wonder why.-When someone uses an uncropped screenshot, usually from ASN, as their banner. What no, you either ask or make your own banner. Spare us, please. -Blinding colors. Like what, why would you even DO that. -When someone tells people they will be auto-staff just to get attention and more members. Liek wtf, why would you want someone you hardly know as staff anyways? Dx yes I can't tell you how many pro boards and websites that are fair to bright. A skin dosen't make a board. I think most people don't understand that. MySpace just makes me angry. The majority of profiles burn my eyes, and I have to scroll FOREVER to reach the middle of their page. Stretched out pages aren't col at all, and honestly, I don't care what your results were on 97442294764 quizzes, who you think is hot, or about any other large images you choose to make your page stretch out forever. Agreed I won't rant about how its like everyone loves that site. Agreed with the glitter stuff, Kappa. Its annoyingly tacky, and the Blingee logo kills everything. LOL BLINGEE. Those can kill any image ever. - Forums with pre-made layouts from a website. If you're really dedicated to your forum, you should at least bother to make it unique. - Same with obviously copied & pasted pre-made HTML templates. BONUS POINTS if you have a table and one row of cells still has the text "Contents of Left Box", "Contents of Right Box", etc. - Forums with insanely strict rules. Make a community, not a camp! - Forums with huge, three-megabyte animated GIFs as banners with some weird filter effects on them that do not make it appealing at all. Seriously, just what. I actually have to disagree with the premade skins and the whole you need a crazy skin to make your website great. I've been on a lot of forums and many of a technical nature. You don't need a custom skin to have a rocking forum. Substance over stye. And more so good people, with out good members your forum is nothing.
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Post by Blind Bandit on Jul 21, 2008 10:26:50 GMT -5
Say if DH's skin was put on a website for others to use. Five other big Avatar forums use it. Would it lose its impact on DH? I'm not saying a skin makes the forum. I'm saying uniqueness does. A simple skin (like our Fiery Summer) is just fine, they don't need to be complicated. Visual appeal is a key in gaining website popularity. But when I see several different web pages that look exactly the same, it loses my interest. And I do agree, there's a forum I was once a member of that had over 20 pretty skins. But the forum was huge and I didn't like the attitude of the members. So as a result I left, and found DH. There's another forum I visit occasionally because it has information I need, and it uses a default skin. But the members there are still upbeat and hilarious. When I see a forum with a message at the bottom, "Skin by *Proboards Skins*", my first impression is that the owner of the site is too lazy to make their own. They just slap on a skin and call it visual appeal. You'll need to put in effort to have a grea t site. When everything is pre-made, it just looks corny. I can agree somewhat. But again your using premade as if its a bad word. I've been on many boards that are very mainstream they rely not on the skin but the contents of the bhard. And using a premade skin is not being lazy. Not all of use are layout admins. And frankly I haven't found to many truly good looking skins that weren't made by a big name. Are they unique ya but they don't' look good. Its great that someone willing to try. But there are other more important things to be done. I guess I'm speaking as someone who's first boards where large and standard skined but would blow your mind with the knowledge you could find. And I also vividly remember the internet of the 90's.lol Someitmes I miss how simply those days where. I think as a whole many proboards user get the mypace mentality going in which they think you need to slap people across the face by trying super hard to make your forum unique. Your forum is still a forum and there have been so many of those its not even funny. Its always nice to have a nice skin. But again it shouldn't be a huge focous. Oh and one thing I can't stand. A back ground image that is very distracting. You don't need to put a background image in your website or at least not an image that makes you star at the back ground and not the information on the website.
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Post by notreal on Jul 21, 2008 12:23:34 GMT -5
At first sight, the visual appeal is what attracts the members. They won't be looking through posts *right away*, what will make them want to join the forum is the skin, activity of the boards, grammar in descriptions, and over all quality and effort of the website. In short, I doubt you're going to join a proboards forum with a goffick paint sig banner and avatar spirit tiled backgrounds.
Every single aspect of a forum is important. The shallow parts to hook a person in, and the substance, activity, and fun of the boards/members to make them stay. It s all a process and not something that can be defined by "Well this works and this doesn't."
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Post by night on Jul 21, 2008 12:24:34 GMT -5
I have to disagree with you a little, BB. As a layout designer myself, I favor websites with visual appeal, simply because it suits me. I cannot stand any website that does not look good visually. I agree with Shockie on premade layouts. To me, they mean laziness too. I find it better if you take the time to have a custom layout made expecially for your forum, rather than just snagging one from a website. But thats just my opinion. It is obvious that we view these things very differently, so it is rather useless to argue much. Also, quote'd Shay because I bumped the page. Lulz At first sight, the visual appeal is what attracts the members. They won't be looking through posts *right away*, what will make them want to join the forum is the skin, activity of the boards, grammar in descriptions, and over all quality and effort of the website. In short, I doubt you're going to join a proboards forum with a goffick paint sig banner and avatar spirit tiled backgrounds. Every single aspect of a forum is important. The shallow parts to hook a person in, and the substance, activity, and fun of the boards/members to make them stay. It s all a process and not something that can be defined by "Well this works and this doesn't."
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Post by Blind Bandit on Jul 21, 2008 12:38:35 GMT -5
At first sight, the visual appeal is what attracts the members. They won't be looking through posts *right away*, what will make them want to join the forum is the skin, activity of the boards, grammar in descriptions, and over all quality and effort of the website. In short, I doubt you're going to join a proboards forum with a goffick paint sig banner and avatar spirit tiled backgrounds. Every single aspect of a forum is important. The shallow parts to hook a person in, and the substance, activity, and fun of the boards/members to make them stay. It s all a process and not something that can be defined by "Well this works and this doesn't." Hmmm well again differnce of opnion the people are more important ot me that than the skin. I have to disagree with you a little, BB. As a layout designer myself, I favor websites with visual appeal, simply because it suits me. I cannot stand any website that does not look good visually. I agree with Shockie on premade layouts. To me, they mean laziness too. I find it better if you take the time to have a custom layout made expecially for your forum, rather than just snagging one from a website. But thats just my opinion. It is obvious that we view these things very differently, so it is rather useless to argue much. Also, quote'd Shay because I bumped the page. Lulz At first sight, the visual appeal is what attracts the members. They won't be looking through posts *right away*, what will make them want to join the forum is the skin, activity of the boards, grammar in descriptions, and over all quality and effort of the website. In short, I doubt you're going to join a proboards forum with a goffick paint sig banner and avatar spirit tiled backgrounds. Every single aspect of a forum is important. The shallow parts to hook a person in, and the substance, activity, and fun of the boards/members to make them stay. It s all a process and not something that can be defined by "Well this works and this doesn't." I've been on the internet for a long time. And frankly I've been on enough boards to know skins are great but they can't be the only thing good about a forum. And besides prob boards many boards aren't customized to the level many would expect. I think its really down to prospective. What you look for in a site and what you feel is needed. As well who you associate with. But yes shay those things are all important it just depends on what you feel is really important. Substance over style any day, for me at least. But I also know that both of you are very layout minded people so I'm not really that surprised we don't agree. Anyway I'm dragging this topic to fair from where it started. Ok one that really bugs me. When staff are too stoft. Your there to do a job and a service to your members, I can't stand when someone just lets themselves be walked all over because they don't want to seem mean or scary. Its your job. please dod it
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