1. Scrabbled layout: When I arrive at your blog there are several items I look for to get started – Your post section, blog roll and social sharing buttons. When these are scattered all over and up and down the page among awards, ads, animated links and widgets – I get distracted and often click on by. Please don’t hide the comment link. I prefer it at the bottom of the post so I can click on it after I read.
2. Random comment log-ins: Use at least one of the proven log-ins for leaving comments or give me the option to enter my info. Please don’t require me to use one and only one means of logging in, because if you do I probably won’t.
3. Floating ads or banners: I don’t like having something chasing me around on the page while I’m trying to read.
4. Music: Don’t do it. It takes longer for the page to load and if I want to surf the web while listening to music – I prefer to choose my own.
5. Heavy pages: in addition to music, having hundreds of animations, gifs. Widgets, social feeds and uncompressed picture photos make loading your site slow and aggravating. Don’t just add the latest greatest widget without deleting some old stuff. The only thing worse than a cluttered blog is one that is cluttered and loads slowly – I won’t linger.
I’m done whining now…
listen to some soft music,
ReplyDeletesmiles...
you are doing amazing job here.
hope that you enjoy a graceful evening!
Cheers!
Agreed.
ReplyDeleteI vigorously nod in agreement. :) Simplicity is key, especially in this medium where the content of the page is, save for photoblogs, in the form of text -- paragraphs and stanzas and lines of it.
ReplyDeleteRe: #4. Ha, ha, ha. THAT (especially with special effects like blinking, color change, etc.) is a major pet peeve of mine, too. Especially come holiday season -- THAT's peak season for add-ons. ;)
I have one more to add to your list, and this is for those whose eyes are no longer 20/20, whose work already involves nonstop reading, and, in my case, sensitive to sunlight and screaming colors: when the contrast between the text and the background is SO NOT conducive for reading, especially absorbed reading (when a story or a long poem is involved). Once I squint, I'm out. Sigh.
I with you on all accounts! Except that I've one more to add....word identification.
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glad to know i'm not alone. f8hasit added a good one - but i'm a bit torn on that. spam hits hard sometimes without it and it is aggravating. if it is part of the first step in commenting i don't mind it so much, but when it pops up as a second step it is a bit of a hassle.
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