Re: [Staffslug] Websites, there's some dross out there!

Hi All Some of you may know (OK Kevan knows) I create and sell websites some are standard HTML usually created in Front Page or Joomla. I have no PHP skills and would probably struggle to create one with just a text editor. Recently I've been doing a heck of a lot of Googling and a good 80% of the sites I've looked at are appalling not necessarily in functionality but the presentation makes me want to slap the owner for offending my eyes. True my choice of colour scheme may not be to everyone's taste but at least I don't use, for example, yellow fonts on a white background! How the hell are you supposed to read that? The latest trend seems to be *Black*, OK not my personal favourite but I suppose it can look cool if you are a Goth or something, do they use white fonts? na, course not, no lets have a transparent overlay with mauve fonts and a black background made up of ghosted images, lovely. Then of course there's text with an image as the background, do we check that everything is positioned correct and that everything fits? Nope, "So the text spews over that pink border on my image, I like the picture and anyway I know what it says". My other pet hate is those stupid web effects for example the *Slider* effect where a box of text or an image stays in view whether you scroll up or down and of course the bumble bee that follows your pointer, its pretty cute for about 30 seconds then begins to tick you off and don't talk to me about background music. I was on some amoeba's website which treated me to Whitesnake or similar on a continual loop with some of the other pet hates of mine, towards the bottom of the page the guy stated he was looking for *Web Creation Work!!*, make your own mind up as to what I was thinking. So after venting my spleen with all of the above I was wondering what your pet hates for websites are? -- Regards Dick Turpin Arch Linux is an independent i686-optimized community distribution for intermediate and advanced Linux users. Utilising a Rolling Release System packages are regularly updated and an ISO release is just a snapshot to the stable packages at that time. So there's no need for a fresh install the command 'pacman –Syu' upgrades the whole system. _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://www.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug