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Stop wearing your iPod around your neck..

August 27th, 2007 Alison

.. you look like an iDiot!

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Nettiquette

August 19th, 2007 Alison

Okay, I know there are tonnes of posts and pages dedicated to netiquette, but these are a couple of things that REALLY bother me..

1. Resizing my browser

I don’t have my browser maximized because I have a widescreen computer, and it just looks stupid when I have the screen maximized. I like to keep my browser down to a more “old school” size so websites don’t have huge blank sides, and it takes a few minutes of tweaking for me to get it how I like it.
Re-sizing my browser is like coming into my house and rearranging my furniture. I had it a certain way for a reason, and there is NO reason for your website to come in and change that. If you have a little pop-up site that will leave the main window the size I set it at, fine. I can close the pop-up and still keep my browser at the size I like it. But if I click on your site or a link within it and it resizes the main window, not only have you changed the default size that I took time to set up, but I also surf with multiple tabs open, so now you’ve changed the way I’m viewing other sites.

2. AutoPlay sound

If I click on a YTMND link or go to a MySpace music page, I’m expecting the possibility that they will AutoPlay. Pretty well any other site, I’m not. I work in an office, and it’s quiet. I hate when I go to a site at work, and it suddenly starts blasting out sounds or music. It’s even worse when it starts instantly and without warning, and worse still when I can’t turn it off. And regardless of if I’m at work or not, more often than not, I have music on. Who are you to intrude on that?

So.. if you do either of those things, unless you have some unbelievably amazing content to make it worth my while, you’ve pretty much made it so I’ll never visit your site again. But maybe that was your intention?

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