Poorly built web sites

[Doug]

I get very annoyed at poorly built web sites.  And the worst seem to be the news sites.  Sites where people sell stuff don't seem to be near as bad.

I haven't done web pages since we did them in Notepad but even then we had the problem of designing sites for the fastest connection.  Well I have a 12meg connection DSL which is fairly fast, fast enough to stream 720 movies with out buffering.  I find news stories with as many as 6 self starting vids going at the same time.  

I guess there is nothing to do about it but wait for the connections to get faster which will bring more gadgets to screw things up.  I guess these news sites don't care that we get our news from the Soundhole. 

Just wanted to bitch.  

[fauxmaha]

Those news guys (really, should be "news" guys, since so many of those sites are really nothing more than click-mining operations) are desperate to generate revenue. They end up festooning the pages with as many pay-per-impression ads as they can. There's a whole sub-network of ad servers out there, feeding ads to web pages and paying them a zillionth of a penny for each impression.

Its all an impossibly tangled web, but the consumer gets what they want: FREE!!!

[Lonnie]

The problem with ads (and I get to get a personal bitch in here at the same time) and Google apps is that when you go to a site that uses this stuff... bobsredwigglers.com, for instance... your browser needs to load everything on Bob's server, plus any ads from other servers, plus all the Google analytics, google fonts, google docs, etc. The loading hierarchy of a web page can be slowed down or stopped completely by a non-responsive or slow server, or by a script from any of the servers not functioning properly, etc. I've sat in frustration at many sites that use Google products, waiting for the actual content to load while Google analytics takes its sweet time connecting.

[Dub]

The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS) sponsors The Webby Awards. You can review their award criteria to see what they think a good Web site should be like.

[Lonnie]

I find it surprising that the webby awards site lists the winners, but no links to their sites. At least not on my tablet. I'll have to try on the computer later.

[RickW]

That is odd.

I've been getting frustrated with how things work on my iPad. Facebook is horrible as a web page. But I don't want to waste space on the app, but it's a way better experience. Same with a lot of other web sites.

But Jeff's right, people want free stuff. Someone has to make money somehow. And Google analytics, well, you need something to show people what's going on on your site, or you're not getting any money from anyone.

[millring]

I insisted on hide glue in the building of my website. Tonally, I've never regretted the decision.

[Cornflake]

I know nothing about any of this, but I have very strong opinions.

[Dub]

One of my favorite Web sites is CSS Zen Garden. It shows what can be done with a Web technology called cascading style sheets (CSS). It features hundreds of Web pages, each with the identical content. The only difference between the pages is that they reference different style sheets. The style sheets aren't embedded, just referenced as external instructions for rendering the content.

[jdd2]

randomwire.com/why-japanese-web-design-is-so-different/

Rakuten, the first pics, is supposedly proud of that. At the bottom of the page the ones from Taiwan are pretty dense, too.

Safari on a mac is anti-Flash, which is what a lot of the auto-run videos use, so they usually don't run.

[Doug]

To much is off site.  Ad coming from the same place as the web site OK but go here go there go everywhere building the site kills the load.  And the damn ads are self starting vids abunch of the time.