Comments on: Web 2.Overwhelming: 22 Ways to Frustrate Your Site Visitors

By: Nikki

Nikki — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:00:16 +0000

Ha! Great post. Many of the points made me giggle as I recalled coming across them on sites and thinking… WT?

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By: Benidorm

Benidorm — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:38:52 +0000

Excellent article and one that the Hotel industry could do well to read. Get so frustrated looking at Hotel sites that 90% of the time make it impossible to actually book a room online direct. They seem to prefer to send their customers to booking engines instead. Of cousre this is after a long drawn out flash sequence which usually never actually shows the important things like what the rooms are like!

By: Gil

Gil — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:37:48 +0000

Very enjoyable post (a bit long however, haha). It was informative, but mostly very funny.
I just hate sites that ask for every piece of data about your life that they can possibly
think about to go into some silly box — FAX number, alternate FAX, and alternate To the
alternate FAX number. The list of needed items was very good. I personally always hate sites
that open with music, which usually sounds like a funeral–I ALWAYS hit the “Skip” button for
music and introduction. Overall, I picked up a couple of pointers. Thanks for the info and
the humor.

By: rob

rob — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:34:30 +0000

hi nice post, i enjoyed it

By: Kalena Jordan

Kalena Jordan — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:52:55 +0000

@ Alain – I know! The eye creeps me out too. Glad you enjoyed Damian’s tips and thanks for stopping by

By: Alain Saffel

Alain Saffel — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:11:28 +0000

That world glaucoma site is strange to say the least. It almost makes you wonder if someone did it as a joke! What is with the dancing heads up in the left corner? What purpose does that serve, other than to confuse?

And a glaucoma hymn? The eye creeps me out. I could go on and on. The colour scheme reminds me of the old ‘hotdog’ colour scheme from Windows 95. Yikes!

I like your list of suggestions about usability though. A good checklist for things to avoid. :)

By: Kalena Jordan

Kalena Jordan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:09:21 +0000

Ack! Thanks Josh

By: josh

josh — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:26:08 +0000

Check the Fred Frap site in IE. It gets even worse than pink text on a purple background but at least the image is displayed.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:08:35 +0000

really good report number 2 is right!