Minor complaint, but...

[anarky]

Why is every business website trying to integrate as much sound and animation as possible into their sites?

For instance, I was just checking a credit card online. There's a link that says "About your new online features." I have new online features? Interesting. So I click it, and a new window pops open with a fucking animation of a mouse cursor moving around, clicking on buttons and dropdowns on this image of a screen--buttons that are totally self-explanatory, like "Select statement date"--while a male voice explains what it's doing.

Dude, this is easy shit. I don't need a fucking video tutorial, and it certainly should indicate in the link that it's not only going to open a new window, but that a video will play! What if it were mebe:ducks: who clicked on it with his dial-up connection? It would've killed his computer!

Or if I go to Mattel's site, the main page shouldn't include a video of an apology from the CEO that plays automatically.

Personally, bells and whistles like this, when they're not needed, piss me the fuck off. I want text. Fuck, I can do without the graphics on most business sites.

But whatever came of the old web design maxim, "Design your site so it will run on the oldest, slowest computer that a customer will likely be using"?

[Geoff Peterson]

I was patiently waiting, hoping it would piss you off so much, you would go on a murderous spree, and I could pick up your GIJoe toy collection for a song at the Rummage Sale your wife would have to pay your legal bills.


Frankly, I'm a tad let down. Jerk.