Dear web page designers and editors...please stop using long titles

[FelixDeCat]

Long web page title names are tacky and annoying. If I favorite / bookmark a webpage with a really long name it is much longer than standard webpage names and looks ugly and disproportional to all my other entries.

Because of your lack of foresight and incompetence I have to manually edit your stupid entry to fit into my bookmarks!

Its bad enough that a lot of webpages are being ruined in favor of finger / mobile / tablet browsing, you now add insult to injury by doing this:

Descriptive Page Name

to

Descriptive Page Name: The place for the hottest news on the internet that you wont find anywhere else or even here. What? Not even here!? Ok, you arent supposed to read this far so I figured if I put that as part of a paragraph page title you woudnt read it, but now you have, so I guess your screwed. Oh, and dont forget to edit all this crap out when you bookmark this page. Have a bad day, Web Page Editor.

 

[WorldExclusive]

Three letters:

S E O

I try to keep the pages I develop short as possible.
But I do feel your pain.

 

[xanis]

Its bad enough that a lot of webpages are being ruined in favor of finger / mobile / tablet browsing

You lost me right here. Web pages are hardly being ruined by the mobile-first approach; in fact, I'd argue that they're getting better because of it.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Try renaming your bookmarks and save your whining for something that can't be fixed with 1 second of effort and 1 brain cell.

 

[Rakehellion]

You lost me right here. Web pages are hardly being ruined by the mobile-first approach; in fact, I'd argue that they're getting better because of it.

Mobile pages are crap. It defeats the purpose of having a smart phone if I have to suffer a stripped-down UI.

 

[xanis]

Mobile pages are crap. It defeats the purpose of having a smart phone if I have to suffer a stripped-down UI.

Smart designers and developers don't create a stripped-down UI; they create a responsive and adaptive UI for desktop that translates well into a mobile experience. I can see why you'd say this, though... a pretty good number of mobile sites are half-assed as a result of people not knowing WTF they're doing.

Check out the http://www.snowbird.com/ website on your desktop and your phone to see what I mean.

 

[etrigan420]

Because of your lack of foresight and incompetence I have to manually edit your stupid entry to fit into my bookmarks!

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

You lost me right here. Web pages are hardly being ruined by the mobile-first approach; in fact, I'd argue that they're getting better because of it.

Why mobile-first? It should be desktop first, good layout, good design practices, and then working on scaling to mobile. It should be mobile second.

 

[Bateluer]

Why mobile-first? It should be desktop first, good layout, good design practices, and then working on scaling to mobile. It should be mobile second.

Agreed. Modern smartphones are sporting 1080p resolutions and multicore CPUs, they can render a full page just fine. Unless its Flash, in which case, you find another website.

 

[Rakehellion]

http://www.snowbird.com/ website on your desktop and your phone to see what I mean.

Horrible, horrible, horrible. It commits the #1 mobile web page sin: There's no transparent way to get to the full version of the site.

 

[CA19100]

http://arstechnica.com/ is an example of mobile done right, in my opinion. It also includes a giant link to switch you to the full site, and another giant link to toggle back.

 

[Red Squirrel]

speaking of anoying web practices, is it just me or does the internet suck more and more now, in general? These are some of my biggest pet peeves and I see it all too often:

- Fake download buttons EVERYWHERE on a download page.. STOP IT, just link me to the freaking zip or exe file, get rid of these stupid gateway pages filled with fake buttons to try tricking me, it's pointless and just annoying!
- On the same subject, download files that are hard to get to. Just freaking link me the file directly, stop over complicating things!

Both of those add unnecessary work on both the user and the webmaster.

- javascript popups. Not actual windows, since popup blockers block those anyway, but ones that are embedded as being part of the site. They'll often gray out the entire site until you take some action. Lot of news sites do that now, making the article unreadable because they want you to register or do some other crap before you can continue.

- Link hover popups that hide the text you are trying to read, or anything for that matter where moving the mouse causes things to happen.

- Interactive stuff such as drop downs that have to call back to the server to get more info, making you have to wait there without moving the mouse (or menu will go away). The page already loaded, stop trying to load more stuff, your bloated code is slow enough to execute and now I have to wait again just because I clicked a menu? Should have loaded that stuff ahead of time and use a standard drop down menu instead of being fancy for nothing. There's an app at work we used called NETS that does this. Most horriblly coded POS ticketing system ever. Half the time it locks up the entire browser and you have to restart the ticket.

I could go on. Just seems the web has so many annoyances now days.

Back in the 2000's these things were just not an issue. It was not perfect, it still had annoyances (mostly popups, and popup blockers were still fairly new technology) but it was much better. The marquee and blink stuff was fairly minor compared to the crap now. What has changed that prompts sites to use such annoying useless practices, and why? You want to try to get more visitors, not drive them away!

 

[xanis]

Horrible, horrible, horrible. It commits the #1 mobile web page sin: There's no transparent way to get to the full version of the site.

You want to view the full versions of websites on your phone... why?

Also, the example that I gave you is the full site; you don't lose anything on mobile, the site simply respondes to the smaller viewport. No sins found.

 

[Rakehellion]

You want to view the full versions of websites on your phone... why?

Why create the desktop version of the site if it's unnecessary?

Also, the example that I gave you is the full site; you don't lose anything on mobile, the site simply respondes to the smaller viewport. No sins found.

Best case scenario, users of the site will have to hunt for buttons because everything has moved around.

"Everything" isn't there. All of the graphics are different. Why?

 

[FelixDeCat]

speaking of anoying web practices, is it just me or does the internet suck more and more now, in general? These are some of my biggest pet peeves and I see it all too often:

- Fake download buttons EVERYWHERE on a download page.. STOP IT, just link me to the freaking zip or exe file, get rid of these stupid gateway pages filled with fake buttons to try tricking me, it's pointless and just annoying!
- On the same subject, download files that are hard to get to. Just freaking link me the file directly, stop over complicating things!

Both of those add unnecessary work on both the user and the webmaster.

- javascript popups. Not actual windows, since popup blockers block those anyway, but ones that are embedded as being part of the site. They'll often gray out the entire site until you take some action. Lot of news sites do that now, making the article unreadable because they want you to register or do some other crap before you can continue.

- Link hover popups that hide the text you are trying to read, or anything for that matter where moving the mouse causes things to happen.

- Interactive stuff such as drop downs that have to call back to the server to get more info, making you have to wait there without moving the mouse (or menu will go away). The page already loaded, stop trying to load more stuff, your bloated code is slow enough to execute and now I have to wait again just because I clicked a menu? Should have loaded that stuff ahead of time and use a standard drop down menu instead of being fancy for nothing. There's an app at work we used called NETS that does this. Most horriblly coded POS ticketing system ever. Half the time it locks up the entire browser and you have to restart the ticket.

I could go on. Just seems the web has so many annoyances now days.

Back in the 2000's these things were just not an issue. It was not perfect, it still had annoyances (mostly popups, and popup blockers were still fairly new technology) but it was much better. The marquee and blink stuff was fairly minor compared to the crap now. What has changed that prompts sites to use such annoying useless practices, and why? You want to try to get more visitors, not drive them away!

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