DISQUS

BYurick · 4 months ago

What's up with the Opera Marketing Team hate? Did I miss a post about this?

Andy Gongea · 4 months ago

Opera is a great product and they only have 2% of the worldwide market share. That is quite annoying.

I mean they have addons, speed, tools and only 2 percent. I think they could've done better in promoting the product, creating viral campaigns and so on.

Cheers!

Chris Coppenbarger · 4 months ago

IE7 and IE8 are driving me nuts right now as well. IE7 more so.

Can Berkol · 4 months ago

Google Adsense or any other advertisement is annoying if ads are just thrown carelessly within page. On the other hand there are really good examples of how to integrate any ad into design seamlessly without breaking usability rules. If the content of the ads, the location and the design are chosen carefully then I cannot agree with your point. Other than that I am on your side :).

emintolga · 4 months ago

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jokr · 4 months ago

It's interesting that you mention google adsense but you don't say anything about other ads. I find most of the other ads especially flash ads that slide over html content much more annoying than adsense. And of course I have to agree with Can Berkol that if ads are carefully placed onto the page their presence shouldn't be annoying at all.

You also say that you hate list articles and I have to disagree with you on that too. There are a lot of list articles and/or roundups that offer no original content but instead they offer a great source of information and inspiration. And the time and work put into those articles is the same if not even greater that most of the articles out there.

Andy Gongea · 4 months ago

You are absolutely right, flash ads are annoying but Adsense is omnipresent. Every site has adsense and it has become like spam to my eyes.

The problem with lists is that they offer duplicate content. You will find roundups like "best wordpress themes" or "X twitter clients" all over the net. So in this case, a big amount of sites share the same information without creating new and valuable content.

Yes, the roundups are easy to write and most of the times they generate great traffic, but by doing lists you stagnate the creativity and original content. This is why I hate Lists articles.

Cheers and Thanks for your comment!

Can Berkol · 4 months ago

On the originality matter I agree with you Andy. I want original content. A lot of blogs out there are just copying other's posts by adding a few more items to the lists. Sometimes they don't event bother to that..

BYurick · 4 months ago

I'm so sick of the lists tweeted at retweeted ad nauseam. How many "Top 10 (insert Wordpress function)" can there be? I don't even read them anymore since they're all the same. And the list of "Top 100 (something)" I lose interest after the first 8 or 9 items.

Dave Sparks · 4 months ago

Totally agree about list articles - There are so many blogs out there that just have reams of content that simply links to other blogs or recreates similar lists.

I once read somewhere that as a rule unless you're Smashing Magazine don't bother!

andygongea · 4 months ago

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CtrlFollow · 4 months ago

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David · 4 months ago

I have to strongly agree with the IE6, spam, originality and same template usage. It seems people lack the push to be different these days.

sitiodeldia · 4 months ago

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Zábavná videa · 4 months ago

Heh, It´s my list :-) I hate all IE and i love Chrome!!!

ogzcn · 4 months ago

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meebits · 4 months ago

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MArk · 4 months ago

I'll have to disagree with you on the list artcles. I love reading them and I have done them. I have read several list on the same topic but a times they deliver slightly different content in each one with new information. And I can't really say I care where they got the description from. No point in reinventing the wheel. If the description is provided you might as well use that. The main point of the list is to get the info to you.

Andy Gongea · 4 months ago

I respect your opinion but like I said in the post I'm no big fan of List Articles. But I agree that there are some lists that are original and useful.

Cheers!

wix · 3 months ago

I like your list about web design. However; Would you like to include having flash objects integrated but are still highly optimized for the search engines? :-)

Viral Marketing · 1 month ago

Excellent blog, thanks for the post!

contractor web design · 1 month ago

what's with the hate on google ads? maybe you mean scattered ads, surely those were noob sites! what I hate are those zangoo sites lol