Padme Amanda's Journal: Pet peeve: crappy websites.

One thing I really can't stand is websites with poor navigation, poor grammar, bad formatting or sites that are just poorly run. There are too many of those at my university that professors have had set up for their classes. Some websites just scream FrontPage all over them. *shudder* I prefer coding html pages in Notepad.
Another annoying thing that makes a web page bad is when people play around with fonts and colors. Keep it simple, people! Pick two or three main colors and use various shades of them. Pick one or two fonts to use and stick with them! Don't give me that curly unreadable crap. Ugh... and Comic Sans just makes me lose respect for your website at first glance.

"Under Construction"

[jasonrocks]

That's my pet peeve. I mean it's obvious that you're going to change your page to be better. I sometimes wonder how many pages are under perpetual construction or how many pages are simply "under construction" because the author was lazy! I mean get a grip.

Re:"Under Construction"

[Padme Amanda]

Yeah, I don't mind the Under Construction if it's obviously a work in progress and it's being updated, but if it is something that effects the way the website works... then seriously... ugh.
I have a costume documentation website so some of my pages are still lacking content because there is so much to document and I haven't finished making some things, but at least I link to a mailing list that people can sign up for if they want to be notified of updates. I figure, if it has to be a work in progress, the