Re: UKNM: More webwashing

[Charlie.Williams]

Charlie Williams@ECSOFT

17/05/99 15:19


Alex wrote:

>why would an ordinary user want to block ads anyway? they're often the most

>entertaining / colourful thing on a site ...



So ordinary users only look for sites to be entertained and see nice

colours?


Take a look at www.deja.com. Dejanews started off as being a site purely

for the searching and viewing of Usenet. That is, users used it purely for

info.


Of course, they added banners as they went along, but recently they

underwent a complete face-lift on the site. It seems to have crossed the

line that seperates info sites with an acceptable number of banners from

banner sites with a bit of info at the bottom of each page. Before the

re-design it looked fairly okay, ie: nondescript as a text-based info site

should be, plus a couple of easily-ignorable banners. Now it just looks

shite.


This is what happens when web designers assume users don't mind ads.


Just my 2d.


Charlie.


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