May 1, 2004
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Why I hate Xanga Sites
Changing a person’s cursor in a webpage is just like putting white text on a light gray background or playing music over and over again without a stop button. It is something any good designer does not do.
Sure, I was guilty of one of the crimes below(I loved my Strongbad techno, okay?), but I did it in vain. Many naive youngsters here on Xanga seem to enjoy, and think the rest of the Internet enjoys:
- Clocks that replace your cursor
(Windows has one conveniently placed on the bottom right. Nuff' said)
- Music that cannot be stopped/paused
(How many times can you possibly listen to a blaring guitar before you one is forced to shove a speaker up your arse?)
- Backgrounds that are 500kb+
(Stop with those 3D chaos backgrounds already, they're from yester-year)
- Being forced to click the "here" link when commenting.
(Sorry, Eric
)
- Marquees aka 3D Scrolling banner text (with size 20 font or larger)
(This is just plain ol' tacky)
- 10 various scripts/codes that make even broadband user wait a whole season for a page to fully load.
(And you wonder why people don't comment often...)
Your goal in making a website is to make it enjoyable and usable to as many people as possible.
You don't want people to be unable to read your site, or to spend 5 minutes trying to figure out where their cursor is because you are “kEwL” and know how to change cursors using CSS. You don't want potential visitors ripping out their hair because of music they might not like, looping in the background without an "off" button in sight.
Just because the options are there, doesn't mean you need to use them.
I could go on and on, ranting about terrible web designs and implementing craptacularly unecessary HTML on your site. But that would make the little girls and boys who visit this site tear. So I'll stop here since I'm such a good samaritan.
- Clocks that replace your cursor
Comments (118)
hear, hear!
its fun to look at tackiness tho.
phew awesome. Being HTML illiterate does have its benefits ;-D
My site is perfect. Perfect design and perfect content. No one else comes close to perfection but me...hahahaha:-p
i like simplicity.
i can remember a certain someone who had annoying music playing on their website.
hehehe.. i hate the whole waiting..
as for the whole white thing.. i was pretty desperate wit mi bg.. i wanted it so bad.. so hehe
You've hurt my feelings substantially! Now if you excuse me..I will proceed to my crying corner!
HAHAHA Kidding...I'm not THAT much of a loser!! Or am I?! Hmm life's little mysteries...
Oh lord, I couldn't agree more. Especially about the music, that's one thing that pisses me off beyond belief. At least have the courtesy to put a stop button and not force me to listen to something. Especially since it cuts into my winamp music. ::sigh::
Aye you forgot the disabling right click when it causes the comp to freeze or a shitload of porn pop-ups appear!
ya singled me out!
haha, just kidding
WHATTAYATALKING ABOUT?!?!
I coulda sworn xanga fixed my box so clicking the "here" link wasn't necessary.
I also realized that mp3s just play for ever and ever and ever.... that's why i use .wma which is stoppable by the browser's stop button. But i don't think netscape and Mac users are able to hear it. Oh well :p
::soup nazi:: NO EPROP FOR YOU!
haha..kiddin
haha, that's why i only leave a list of songs for people to choose. so damn annoying to keep hearing the same song over and over. i'm guilty of having a lot of scripts in the past also...we all have our stupid moments...oh yeah, put the boobies back in ur profile pic
Been there, done that.
i couldn't agree more!!! god it's annoying!!!
i completely agreee with youuuu. woah.
thank GOD. I thought I was the only one that felt that way!
i agree.
heys heaz 2 love fooh u hehes holla bah mwahz <333
Strongbad techno! omg that kicked ass.
i hear ya....
cept i've done a lot of that.
bUt iT hAs DeFiNitElY GoT tO bE dA WoRsT iF tYpEd LiKE DiS
right on! gee am i one of those people?? hmm...
have a nice weekend
hahaha, oh yeah, jacked that gay baseball picture off ur site
. nice site u got here. keep up the good work dude. i gotta say my favorites were the boobies and the goldfish video. you weren't the one to do that to the poor goldfish, were u? cuz if u did.....THAT WAS AWESOME
I hate that shit too. Most of the time it's also poorly coded.
oh man, YES that crap pisses me off. along with a few other things... like when people create those damn boxes ALLLL over their page, you know, the ones with a scroll bar? so you have to adjust FOUR damn scrolls to lign up so you can read one shitty block of text, then when you're done with that, you have to start the whole process over again? ARGH. i also hate complicated ass backgrounds that do not enable to reader to read at all.
i don't consider myself a "designer".. just a writer, maybe entertainer?
. but i do try to make my page as simple and easy to read as possible. others should do the same!! amen, chris.
*i meant line... *blush*
yeah, that's about right.
wow.. you know a looooot..
perhaps you can help me build my uglyass site? =)
HAHAH ho mang... despite my age.... i must agree... people have too much damned time on their hands to make their backgrounds and stuff... i mean i got a banner and what not... but I DIDN'T EVEN DO THAT... shit i don't even know how to get the htm. codes anymore... hahah yes that is right...when it comes to creating a website/// i only know the basics.. anyway i'm sorry but i don't raelly experience the annoying music... because i don't EVEN HAVE SPEAKERS... and about the whole click "here" thing... haha i get used to it... yep it's called a crappy computer... haha i think people should stick to one color scheme... where i don't have to highlight the whole freakin entry for me to read it... haha man i keep it sem-simple... yup black, pink and green,... thats all the colors you need... haha BTW kick ass blog buddy
-queen
oh yeah and all that nice shit on my site... i didn't do it... my friend did...
waahh i agree. poor 56kers (like me) have to wait a longass time fot all those special effects to load. and some people dont know how to code html or css right so itll freeze up my ie
but this is like telling aZn guys and gals to n0t tYpE LiKe dIs aNd ThAs nAh kEwL!!! (omgoodness, that took like 2 minutes O.o)
oh yah, and that repeated Strongbad tune killed my winamp.
Hmm... I will think about this one...
good entry
Haha, I took the Strong Bad techno mp3 and used it as one of my ringtones on my phone. People either chuckle when they hear it or they give me the "wtf" look.
Oh, and don't take it personally if I don't leave eprops...I just don't see the point of them.
well arent you a charming cutie with ur lil comments...
hehe
have fun hun
take care
bah, they're just noobs that like to show off their html.. me? i have people do my site for me..lol
i have one of those pages where you can`t stop the song.. sorryyyyyy.. =P har har.
True but what if the person (like me) is not proficient in HTML and does not know how to add a stop button for music?
i am a victim of annoying, repetetive music syndrome. but i have fixed it...which is a good thing considering a have an extrememly annoying song on right now. right "Baby Boy"? yes yes hmm...i'm gonna go get crabs
Lol, I don't even know how to do most of that stuff.
LiKe ThAt iZ s0 WeLL sAiD! *tEeHeehEe* err.
yah!!! ...... haaarrrr!!!......ok, i had a punchline somewhere, but all i could do was bare my teeth! this is me (grrrrrrrr), baring my teeth.
very well said. i totally agree.
PREACH!
~NPP~
you forgot about those stupid little pop ups you recieve when going onto someones page. And when they put multiple pop-up scripts for arriving and leaving.
otherwise, you make a good point, i had a similiar rant on them before. If we can only reach the whole xanga world...
haha. cute. =]
hm. i dont think my page has that many codes, does it? aaaaaaahhh...but i fkn hate those damn marquees.
another point, i also hate it when young xangans like to WrItE LiKe tHiS. it's just annoying, and to those who seem to write endlessly about how depressing their lives are. people like that are in a serious need of a reality check sometime soon.
hey...loops were meant to do loops "biatch"! -Dave Chapelle
i completely agree. and the code that makes little flowers and shit float over the window. spending too much time on making yoru Xanga "nice" while you have no content. i gues some people have to compensate? goodness, i HOPE that's the reason 'cause i just can't think of any other reason.
My Hat goes off to you sir. I just dont wear hats unfortunately. please do the honor of inspecting my site and informing me whether it comes under the category of being totally annoying or just plain gay.
true!
props.
im guilty of one of those things. hehe, its my way of forcing my music onto my readers.
Hey, awesome xanga
*random props*
well, i LIKE having people listen to mai music..itz not THAT annoying is it?? well, at LEAST i have NEW SONG ON REFRESH..
Strongbad techno is quality.
right chu r Elder Cakalusa
those people need to be spanked
i think i have been hated by you! =P
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