Comments on: Pains of Webdesign: Top 10 Pet Peeves

By: Basa

Basa — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 13:00:00 +0000

Good job.

By: Elliot Swan

Elliot Swan — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 06:29:23 +0000

Hope you figure something out that works for you.

By: Oliver Zheng

Oliver Zheng — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:40:50 +0000

Thanks for the input guys!

By: EngLee

EngLee — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:19:15 +0000

I’m not a fan of pop-ups either. But I see most of the online player does that.

For the URL, personally I wouldn’t expect any # for a URL that I’ll need to remember and type it manually. It’s not a problem if I don’t have to remember it.

By: Oliver Zheng

Oliver Zheng — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 05:20:11 +0000

Good point about no music at start. I never launch separate windows just for sound/music, mainly because I’m not a fan of popups.

Quick question. Does the url http://www.domain.com/#archive/something.html seem awkward? That’s actually just an anchor for the main page, which Javascript could interpret and display information accordingly (Ajax). It also looks like a real url that people could note and remember, except for the #. Best of all, any new links do not require the refresh of a new page.

By: EngLee

EngLee — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:06:49 +0000

In this case, I think launching a second window is better than using frame. Frame is never a good design method. Either way, make sure you let the user to start the player themselves. I hate it when suddenly some music start when I’m surfing. I’ll have to find the player, tab by tab (in Firefox) to turn it OFF!

By: Elliot Swan

Elliot Swan — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:41:00 +0000

Ah…That is a problem.

The easy way out would be to allow visitors to launch a seperate window with the mp3 player in it, but that can be annoying sometimes as well. Might be your only option though.

I agree that you should be able to have it playing the whole time (without refreshing it), that’s a tough one.

Anybody else have any ideas?

By: Oliver Zheng

Oliver Zheng — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:13:28 +0000

That would work, except it’s not a menu — it’s an mp3 player. Since the site is mostly focused on that music, I think it is necessary. But then being all the web-standards geek I am, I don’t want to completely make the site with Flash, because a lot of the content is plain text and deserves html pages. So the dilemma occurs.

By: EngLee

EngLee — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 02:50:48 +0000

I’m quite agree with Elliot to make menu reload with the rest of the page. Since it’s a swf, it would have been cached by browse. So, I supposed there shouldn’t be any performance problem.

By: Elliot Swan

Elliot Swan — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 02:06:07 +0000

Does having the menu reload cause a problem? Because I’d say just have the menu reload with the rest of the page like you do on any site, as that would probably be easiest.

Or is there a problem in that?