Friday, February 23rd, 2007...4:19 pm
When will people learn?
For me the most annoying thing a website can do apart from displaying popups is autoplaying audio. It’s cheap and amateur and it drives me insane. I have some pretty powerful speakers hooked up to my pc and because all my audio programs handle sound levels differently my speakers are usually turned up pretty high. I’m sure you can guess what happens next.
I don’t understand what they are trying to achieve. Do they really think that the sound of a rooster is going to get me to keep coming back to they’re site?
If you really, really, must put a clip on you’re site, do everyone a favour and let them decide when and if they listen to it. People will love you for this small mercy.
6 Comments
February 27th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
You gotta be insane. The louder and more obnoxious a sound is the more people will come. Everyone tells their friends about it too. Of course you need to make the sound long and loud. Screetching crap and car accidents. The more outragerous the better.
While you are at it, please pile on some animated graphics and blinking nonsense that is unrelated to your page. And, if at all possible get your main text (size it very small) to blink out of sequence with the rest.
If you get those two points down, you’ll be well on your way to a popular and successful website!
February 27th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
AMEN! I am a cha cha guide and often have the guide application running in the background. To notify me that I have a search request the application makes a soft “ping” sound. So in order to hear it I have to have my speakers on and up. I can not TELL you how annoying it is to hear someone start talking as soon as I visit a page (and since I search for a living I visit A LOT of pages) The one I personally hate to hear is the little female voice that says “Congratulations, just won two Ipod nanno’s…”
In fact I have personally sworn off visiting or creating MySpace pages because of the music. (even though it is a HUGE social network that would probably benifit my business in a big way) YOUR personal taste in music is not MY personal taste in music, lets save the “loud concert quality audio” for an actual concert… K?
February 28th, 2007 at 4:31 am
Glen animated graphics are up there too
I’d really hate to be an epileptic browsing the web. You could really do yourself some damage.
Agloco_Little_Guy I avoid myspace as much as I can yet everytime I do go there I completely forget about the music and am quickly punished for it. And why does it always have to be the punky emo bands playing?
I really wish you could have an option to turn off sound in browsers. I’ll have to look into it. Surely someone has created a plugin for firefox. If not I’ll have to add it to my project list.
March 1st, 2007 at 12:25 am
Hahaha! Have you been to zombo.com ? No music, just a soothing voice. It’s utterly ridiculous. And that’s why I love it. I don’t know, sometimes I’m just in the right mood to enjoy a good Chipmunk song on autoplay on someone’s blog. That, and some people build websites because THEY like them that way, not for the visitors. Sort of like cars, just to build it. We don’t all have the same goals, you know?
March 1st, 2007 at 1:46 am
Elaine zombo is hilarious
I don’t mind so much sometimes that there is sound on a page its just that my speakers are usually up high and it scares the hell out me. I would compare it to a car driving down your street at 1am with the stereo at maximum and the bass rattling your windows 
March 2nd, 2007 at 8:36 pm
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