1. Things Web Designers Shouldn’t Do Pt. 1

    Here’s a list of things I hate to see or find whenever I’m browsing:

    Automatically resize the browser window: I have my browser window resized to the size I want, I dont want it smaller or bigger or maximized, ok? Thanks for not messing around with my browser window.

    Top layer flash ads: yup those that cover up the text you are reading, and you have to find the close[x] button.

    Sound in flash ads: I don’t want to be browsing at 3 in the morning and have a freaking talking emoticon scare the hell out of me.

    Background music: If I’m browsing around, there’s a 99% chance I’m listening to my music, I don’t need your playlist, I’d rather listen to my own crappy one.

    Over Advertise: Ok, we all want to make money off our website, but trust me, most people are with me on this one. If I go to a site where there is a top ad banner, sidebar banners and adsense links ever X number of paragraph lines, I will just sail away.


  2. Did Google just un-indexed my site?

    Ok I’m really pissed off at google right now. Some of you know I run a forum (http://el-sancocho.com) it’s in spanish, there’s no specific topic, just go in there and talk about what you want. Anyways that’s not the point, about 6 months ago or more, I added google adsense on the sidebar, as predicted I started getting revenue from the adsense program, then some forum member (to the day I don’t know who it was) clicked too many times on the adsense thing and google cancelled my account.

    I waited about six months and appealed last week, google then replied that they will not reactivate my account because of violation of terms of use (hey, it’s a forum, srlsy, I freakin don’t know who was responsible for the clicking spree) so well nothing to do there I guess, I didn’t want to pick a fight with google.

    Today I’m reading some SEO stuff and wanted to check against my forum and to my suprise my site is not showing up to any of the keywords it used to. Not even in the localized google page. GOOGLE: WTF!!! why would you people do that? It’s just doesnt make sense to me.. why would you remove my site from your index… did you find some conspiracy against you in my site?

    I’m really mad at google for this. Google isn’t playing nice…