John Sharkey
CS425 HCI
Web Pages that include the top 10 mistakes in Web Design
Dr. Liffick
3-14-00
May 1996 List
1. http://disney.go.com/Features/Distribution/Media/index.html
(#1) Uses 2 frames
(#2) Gratuitous Use of Bleeding-Edge Technology (need windows media player
(#3) Constantly running animation at the top and in the Mickey graphic
(#4) Fairly long URL
(#6) Fairly long scrolling in the one frame
(#8) Nonstandard link colors in tequel
(#10) Overly long download time, took at least a minute on 56K modem (#10)]
2. http://www.1001freefonts.com/
(#3) Constantly running animation at top
(#4) Hard to remember URL (I've forgot this one 2 or 3 times, good site, bad URL..
my personal experience)
(#8) Nonstandard link colors
(#10) Overly long download time, it was still downloading after 2 mins.
3. http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10068-101-917093.html (This is to download
shockwave player and flash player)
(#3) Constantly running animation all over
(#4) Fairly long and complex URL
(#6) Fairly long scrolling with info everwhere (no real consistency)
(#8) Nonstandard link colors in yellow and black at the bottom
4. http://cs.millersv.edu/~davis
(#9) Outdated Information
(#8) Nonstandard link colors in black
(#2) Gratuitous Use of Bleeding-Edge Technology
7. http://www.search-beat.com/modern.htm
(#6) Fairly long scrolling
(#3) Constantly running animation
(#8) Nonstandard link colors in green on left side of page
9. http://pub5.ezboard.com/bsoerbaird
(#4) Fairly complex URL
10. http://capo.org/opeds/whiskey.html
(#5) Ophan Web Page
May 1999 List
1. http://www.geocities.com/Capitolhill/6322/remote.ex.htm
(#1) Breaks the back button
(#4) No Biographical Information
(#7) Headlines that make no sense out of context
(#2) Opening New Browser Windows
(#10) Anything That Looks Like Advertising (way too much advertising)
4. http://www.icq.com/legal-main.html
(#6) Moving Pages to New URLs
(#8) Jumping at the latest buzzword (latest buzzword being mp3)
6. http://www.bravenet.com/index.php
(#3) Non-Standard Use of GUI Widgets (the lists in the center table are
links, not standard links however)
(#5) Lack of Archives (this webpage has current info...but what about
last week?)
8. http://www.1001freefonts.com/index2.html
(#10) Anything That Looks Like Advertising (way too much advertising)
9. http://sunsite.auc.dk/recipes/english/main.html
(#2) Opening New Browser Windows
(#6) Moving Pages to New URLs
10. http://www.stepstone.dk/sok/
(#3) Non-Standard Use of GUI Widgets (the stones at the top of the page are links (non-standard links that is)
(#9) Slow Server Response Times (I clicked in took at least a minute for this page to load)