Bad website design - what to avoid ?

[callis]

Originally Posted by Jimbo

The music I think should be off as standard though with option to turn it on.

Nothing worse than crapping yourself when your surfing late at night and have left the speakers on full blast from the day for some tool to put a pointless midi or something on his page

annoying music a big no no, black background with text you can hardly see, annoying pop-ups, page taking long to load on a broadband connection.

[WingedPanther]

Other issues for me: websites that take FOREVER to load on dialup. I know lots of people have high-speed internet, but at least in the US there is still a huge population that is using dialup. Google's biggest marketing move was being fast.

Secondly, if it doesn't display properly in something other than IE, don't tell me to use IE, go fix your code. Especially for corporate websites, you don't want to turn away 10+% of your potential customer base by telling them what browser to use.

Music, flashy graphics, and flash all get covered under "slow download speed."

[Kaabi]

Well, I have dial-up, yet my website still loads pretty fast, so no problems there. I had music on it once but then I took it away.

[Estupido]

I dunno, I guess it depends on the type of website.

I created a cool flash intro for a group I was in, but if new people don't want to watch it there is a skip intro link in html under it.