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Does anyone have personal website pet peeves?
Karius:
Lately I've noticed that I actually hold a lot of strong opinions about personal websites, and I was wondering if anyone else has common trends on Neocities (for example) as pet peeves. I'm interested because coding is a passion and I like hearing people's opinions... that being said, don't see my own as things that are inherently bad, your website should be coded however you feel most comfortable!
Anyways, mine are:
* All caps/all lowercase: Terrible for screen readers, especially the former. I would suggest doing something with the "text-transform" property on your CSS instead of actually typing like that.
* Seizure-inducing graphics: I have epilepsy, and although I'm medicated I still have some issues with flashing graphics. Lots of blinkies, flashing buttons, etc. should be avoided, or at least have a warning.
* Non-semantic HTML: Ever since I learned that you don't need div tags for everything in your website layout, coding felt a lot easier to manage. Non-semantic HTML still has some use, but it seems silly to me to have "<div class="header">" instead of "<header>".
Anyways, I'll get off my soapbox now. I tried to add solutions to my pet peeves, hopefully you can gather some use out of my tips!
- Alastor
Melooon:
Oh no, I have lots, possibly more than I should admit :ziped:
A big one is sites that depend 100% on Javascript to load content (unless they are actually a JavaScript game or world). Also inline styling <body background="red"> etc unless there is a veryyyy good reason for it!
Iv also been on Neocities for a long while, so there are some things Iv seen too many times. For example joke 90s sites kinda annoy me now, even though my site started like that too. People are at different stages in their web dev journey so I try to give people a lot of leeway in my mind for a lot of things.
Karius:
--- Quote from: Melooon on March 16, 2022 @595.10 ---Oh no, I have lots, possibly more than I should admit :ziped:
A big one is sites that depend 100% on Javascript to load content (unless they are actually a JavaScript game or world). Also inline styling <body background="red"> etc unless there is a veryyyy good reason for it!
Iv also been on Neocities for a long while, so there are some things Iv seen too many times. For example joke 90s sites kinda annoy me now, even though my site started like that too. People are at different stages in their web dev journey so I try to give people a lot of leeway in my mind for a lot of things.
--- End quote ---
I gotta agree with you with the overdone joke websites... still better than using Neocities as an alternative to Carrd IMO, but both of those kinds of websites annoy me. They kinda defeat the whole "personal web" aspect of maintaining a website, y'know? Especially the Carrd ones... at least joke websites can be done well.
- Alastor
fLaMEd:
I definitely agree with the overuse of graphics and non semantic HTML.
Trying to do something in the most complicated way possible.
Crazy backgrounds with crazy text so that you can't read it.
Pages with no content. The same content.
I whole heatedly believe that it's possible to create a personal space on the web without making it an un-accessible nightmare.
HTML/CSS has come a long way over the 30 years or so that it's been in use.
easy_breezy:
Oh boy, here we go:
* Websites that almost exclusively bright graphics for everything is bad for when I'm viewing it at night
* Bad contrast between the text and the background (another issue that the first type of sites tends to have) It's mostly a comfort thing to me since I hate squinting
* Flash sites are only good for game worlds or if it's emulated. Or at least let me access an HTML version
* Sites intentionally being slow to load to "emulate the old web's slowness". My PC is mid tier however my internet is shit
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