Comments on: Titilating Tuesday! http://www.laurendane.com/blog/2006/10/24/titilating-tuesday-2/ A seduction in words Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:08:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Kelly http://www.laurendane.com/blog/2006/10/24/titilating-tuesday-2/#comment-1423 Kelly Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:58:54 +0000 http://www.laurendane.com/blog/?p=570#comment-1423 Oh so many dislikes. Many of them already mentioned. Give me a site that's sleek, but simple. I have a master's degree in library and information science, so I know how to find things. If even my degree isn't helping me to find a listing of your books and you're an author, you're in deep shit. All the frou-frou stuff turns me off for two reasons: 1. it's not aiding you in selling your books (which means I hold book trailers in a different class of frou-frou) and 2. it takes that much longer to load on a low-speed connection and they're not going to wait for your music to cue up before the page even begins loading. Just because I have a high speed connection with lots of RAM for my processor to play with does not mean everyone in the world does. Okay, /rant. Oh so many dislikes. Many of them already mentioned. Give me a site that’s sleek, but simple. I have a master’s degree in library and information science, so I know how to find things. If even my degree isn’t helping me to find a listing of your books and you’re an author, you’re in deep shit. All the frou-frou stuff turns me off for two reasons: 1. it’s not aiding you in selling your books (which means I hold book trailers in a different class of frou-frou) and 2. it takes that much longer to load on a low-speed connection and they’re not going to wait for your music to cue up before the page even begins loading. Just because I have a high speed connection with lots of RAM for my processor to play with does not mean everyone in the world does. Okay, /rant.

]]> By: lili http://www.laurendane.com/blog/2006/10/24/titilating-tuesday-2/#comment-1420 lili Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:42:16 +0000 http://www.laurendane.com/blog/?p=570#comment-1420 I'm sorry, but the Sasha White page blinded me. I hate that. You can't read if you're blinking back tears. Tiny font is bad enough, but black backgrounds and any size white fonts should be avoided if you want readers to hang around. I popped into her page and then right back out again. Now I'm scared to look at the other ones. :sad: As a general rule, black backgrounds should be avoided for -reading- sites. Blogs or otherwise. I’m sorry, but the Sasha White page blinded me. I hate that. You can’t read if you’re blinking back tears. Tiny font is bad enough, but black backgrounds and any size white fonts should be avoided if you want readers to hang around. I popped into her page and then right back out again. Now I’m scared to look at the other ones.

As a general rule, black backgrounds should be avoided for -reading- sites. Blogs or otherwise.

]]> By: Lauren http://www.laurendane.com/blog/2006/10/24/titilating-tuesday-2/#comment-1419 Lauren Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:47:27 +0000 http://www.laurendane.com/blog/?p=570#comment-1419 Maura, you won't be sorry! Frauke is a dream to work with. I can't wait to see what she does for you! Amelia - LOL! Your site is very nice. Easy on the eyes, navigable, everything in its place. I like that. Maura, you won’t be sorry! Frauke is a dream to work with. I can’t wait to see what she does for you!

Amelia - LOL! Your site is very nice. Easy on the eyes, navigable, everything in its place. I like that.

]]> By: Amelia http://www.laurendane.com/blog/2006/10/24/titilating-tuesday-2/#comment-1418 Amelia Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:39:17 +0000 http://www.laurendane.com/blog/?p=570#comment-1418 like: ease of use with the appropriate information in the right place. dislike: fing flash, automatic music, too much clutter, too wordy, not wordy enough, difficult to navigate, out of date, horrible colors or fonts that you can't read...the list goes on I'm very very picky about websites. Which is why I made my webslave husband design mine ;) like: ease of use with the appropriate information in the right place.

dislike: fing flash, automatic music, too much clutter, too wordy, not wordy enough, difficult to navigate, out of date, horrible colors or fonts that you can’t read…the list goes on

I’m very very picky about websites. Which is why I made my webslave husband design mine ;)

]]> By: maura http://www.laurendane.com/blog/2006/10/24/titilating-tuesday-2/#comment-1416 maura Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:55:42 +0000 http://www.laurendane.com/blog/?p=570#comment-1416 LOL - I just managed to get a spot with Crocodesigns te redo my website. And it's YOUR FAULT! I admired your site for a while because I'm pretty picky too and decided on my road to publication, a really NICE website that I can maintain, that looks good and people can find things on was a must. I might have offered bribery - but actually got lucky because of a delay and am next on the list! Likes: readable, uncluttered, non-cutesy, speaks to the purpose or person it's representing hates: audio, the weird SitePal talking heads, unreadable fonts, chaotic disorganizanion, frames... not that I have opinions, mind you! LOL - I just managed to get a spot with Crocodesigns te redo my website. And it’s YOUR FAULT!

I admired your site for a while because I’m pretty picky too and decided on my road to publication, a really NICE website that I can maintain, that looks good and people can find things on was a must.

I might have offered bribery - but actually got lucky because of a delay and am next on the list!

Likes: readable, uncluttered, non-cutesy, speaks to the purpose or person it’s representing

hates: audio, the weird SitePal talking heads, unreadable fonts, chaotic disorganizanion, frames…

not that I have opinions, mind you!

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