Web Feature Review: Sins of the Internets
My good friend Cerebral Cortex of Strollingbrain.net just came out with a list of 10 “Sins of the Internets.†If you currently own, or ever plan on making your own website, this is a list you must read and obey:
Blinking text and marquees
No. Just fucking no. Unless you’re using it facetiously or to mock someone else, there is absolutely no reason that you have the right to give your visitors seizures. Even if you are using blinking text to mock the local Interwebs Troll, you should still consider it a weapon of last resort. It’s like a weapon of mass destruction, but more annoying. If you need to emphasize something, make it larger, a different color, bold, italic, underlined, or what-the-fucking-ever. But don’t make me suffer through your ineptitude just because you went to the ADD School of Web Design.
It’s grumpy, sarcastic, and caustic to the point of actually burning a hole through my screen. However, pretty much every point he makes is valid. All of these have caused me pain.
Cerebral Cortex channels the rage of every web denizen who has a conception of good design. He’s like a holy knight of web design, and this list is his sword, with which he cuts off the heads of web monsters. If you have ever used the blink tag, you must go to this definitive list.
June 10th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Yo Fishmonger, I recommend that you review the concept of finals for your next thing, since I bet that’s what’s keeping you from reviewing anything else right now.