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1. SpaceMan++ said on February 15, 2009, 12:55:47 PM (-08:00)

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Which types of websites are the bad(in your opinion)?
(NEW, I recently discovered)First, it is fancy text(mostly in title) like this:
(¯`·._)Ñî|_|¯|¯Õ(¯`·._)
It lost all semantics of the title, and it's not Google-friendly.
I saw many females do that.
Second, it is multimedia combo(3 BGMs, 4 videos playing at same time), it slow down the page.
Third, it is canned JavaScript, the webmaster copy-and-paste scripts from DynamicDrive and think they are cool.
One example of abuse of canned JavaScript is trailing cursors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qide9Z4PWG8
The bad websites are on MySpace.

2. Cat333Pokémon said on February 17, 2009, 09:19:42 AM (-08:00)

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Quote:
Originally Posted by SpaceMan++
The bad websites are on MySpace.
Figures.

And all those books about creating an effective site say JavaScript is a powerful and useful tool...just use it wisely! Just look at YouTube. Half of its features are based on JavaScript; that is a perfect example of well-written JavaScript. Now I don't even want to go into the pages that bring up "A script error has occured", "Do you want to debug?", "A script on this page is causing the browser to run slow" or the helpless " ".

3. SpaceMan++ said on February 17, 2009, 03:17:25 PM (-08:00)

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JavaScript is good if you use it wisely.
Copying and pasting scripts is unwise

4. Cat333Pokémon said on February 18, 2009, 09:17:31 AM (-08:00)

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I've found a few handy scripts that work rather nicely, such as the one for the photo albums on my site (SSBB and Ranch) or the one for the Pokémon Platinum countdown, both of which required tweaking. I actually had to write a script from scratch for the jukebox on my new site, because all the existing ones do things that are difficult to implement, are Flash-based and only play MP3s (not everyone has super-fast Internet and can wait for those), cost money , or restart the music every time you click a link.

5. SpaceMan++ said on February 18, 2009, 03:20:34 PM (-08:00)

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We are talking about bad practices,
First, it's fancy texts, where people talk like this:
еÐê, †hï§ ï§ vêr¥ ¢ððl! ï'm ¹³³7!

If someone's computer does not support that encoding, it will show garbled text, also, it do not benefit Google.

http://piplup-princess.com/ is one example of fancy text user. They just use fancy text in titles.

6. Cat333Pokémon said on February 19, 2009, 08:48:10 PM (-08:00)

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Ah yes, [.+?» ??????-????¢???.¢?? «?+.]

7. SpaceMan++ said on February 19, 2009, 09:26:36 PM (-08:00)

Zoroark
288 posts

I can Google a bunch:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=%D1%95&ie ... =firefox-a
(scroll down)
I don't know why a lots of girls use it

8. Cat333Pokémon said on February 22, 2009, 05:05:51 PM (-08:00)

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Bingo. Scroll down to #6:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html


There are lots of interesting articles here:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox

9. SpaceMan++ said on February 22, 2009, 06:26:13 PM (-08:00)

Zoroark
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It didn't say much about fancy texts...
I'm exporting this thread to other forums to find more answers

10. Cat333Pokémon said on February 24, 2009, 07:59:49 PM (-08:00)

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Oh, I forgot about WebPagesThatSuck.com!

11. linuxlove said on December 4, 2009, 08:13:49 AM (-08:00)

Mudkip
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I nominate my page ._.
Sure it looks good, but if you have any knowlege of HTML, you'll see how bad I mash things together just to create a website.
AT LEAST I use standard letters and no fancy UTF-8 encoding.

12. Will said on December 21, 2009, 01:03:26 AM (-08:00)

Zoroark
252 posts

Hah, interesting topic! Piplup Princess does overuse those fancy text tho =/

13. Achamo~Torchic said on December 25, 2009, 11:20:33 PM (-08:00)

Mudkip
48 posts

Myspace is not a website @_@

Other website I must say... there's a lotta... anyone see my website tips yet?
Some sites making a really boring tutorial @_@ basic html...

14. Will said on December 26, 2009, 02:33:54 PM (-08:00)

Zoroark
252 posts

Quote:
Originally Posted by Achamo~Torchic
Myspace is not a website @_@

Other website I must say... there's a lotta... anyone see my website tips yet?
Some sites making a really boring tutorial @_@ basic html...
Yes it is.

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