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One of the many things I love about the new BlogHer redesign is that there is nothing at the top of the page that downloads so slowly that it makes the page jump when everything finally arrives. My pet peeve with the Internet of late is things that jump around just when I'm trying to click them.
Here's what I'm talking about.
Another problem I've seen lately while pages download and fill with content that may or may not move around is that you lose control of the scroll bar. You can't scroll at all sometimes, or if you can it is not with precision. Like this example.
Ronni at Time Goes By calls it Twitching Through the News.
It has become impossible to read news online without developing something like attention deficit disorder or worse, stopping your brain from functioning altogether. Some examples:
Just try reading the headlines on the home page of the Washington Post. Suddenly the text jerks up or down and you've lost your place. The reason is that at the top of the left column, the paper rotates a series of photos with captions. Because the the captions are of different length, the switch pushes the column up and down, up and down twisting your brain like a pretzel.
I don't want you to think I'm picking on Yahoo! and The Huffington Post specifically. I could find many other examples of the same thing on the Web right now. It's an epidemic of jumpitis.
The other day I got so upset I posted A Rant on the Future of News on my own blog, saying that at least print news held still!
Pet peeves are popular. On BlogHer, oviedostyle talked about her Social Media Pet Peeves. Sarah and the Goon Squad ranted about several things (like music) in My Blog Pet Peeve a while back.
What's your Pet Peeve
What is the one thing that drives you crazy about visiting a web site? What makes the content hard to reach? What drives you away faster than anything? What irritates you but doesn't actually drive you away screaming? Do tell.
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Virginia DeBolt
Web Teacher|First 50 Words
