Things Web Designers Shouldn’t Do Pt. 2

As promised I’m continuing with my list of Things Web Designers Shouldn’t Do, here are more things I hate to see/use when I’m browsing:

Links that don’t open in Tabs (or in a new browser window for that sense): Tabs are an integral part of my browsing experience, whenever I’m reading, see a link I want to check out, I middle click it, boom new tab it’ll be there when I’m done reading whatever it is I’m reading.

Images that don’t open in Tabs: Using Javascript on Image galleries is ok if you want to give it some pizazz, but hey, I want to click the image and have it load in a new tab, if your gallery doesn’t do this = FAIL.

Making your code work ONLY in IE: I don’tgive a f*&k about IE, don’t make me use it, I don’t care if you want to be old school and Active-X the shit out your application. A while ago I was trying to use a feature on my bank’s website, guess what? activex only… yeah that sounds secure.

Don’t base your design on a picture: I’m actually guilty of falling for this one a few years back. Pictures are great… some are even fantastic but please don’t base your design on a large picture up top and some content below it. Sure, it will look awesome but I did no browse to your site to look at a picture. An example, the people at thiswebhost.com have a nice website, but is it really necessary to have a huge picture of a hot chick up top? Yeah, cause when I think hosting… I think hot chicks. NOT. This is what I’m expecting from a web hosting company.