Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

If you’re a web designer, please don’t give your page any background music unless I ask for it. Not only are you irritating the hell out of me you’re using my bandwidth for which I have better uses. Just stop it.

Lastest evilness: http://www.wired.com/

…they’ve been getting more and more annoying as time goes by but now I think they’ve done it, I won’t be following their stories any more because of their stupid stupid use of flash advertising….I don’t care enough about the content to have to suffer that kind of ordeal.


Categories: Memories.

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  1. dmh

    The thing I’m finding annoying at the moment is “designers” who think it’s stylish to dick about with the default pointer graphics — as in “Hey, I’ll signify a hyperlink by turning the mouse pointer into a ‘horizontal grippy adjuster!'”

    Doh!

    Although to be fair it happens more often then not on personal websites.

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  3. strange_complex

    My way of opting out of background music is simply to keep my speakers switched off as a default, and only to switch them on if I actively want to hear something. But I guess that only works because I don’t regularly listen to music on my computer while I surf.

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  5. neilh

    This is my environment, let me decide how it looks – sure you’ve got a corporate image you need to project but let me see it with 20-point fonts because I can hardly make them out through my bottletop glasses.

    Given that I’ve been playing with internet telephony the last thing I need is a website singing to me when I don’t expect it.

    Any intrusion into my environment is rudeness, or at least arrogance. You are not welcome if you intrude too much. Wired just stepped over that line.

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