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Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you

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569 points todsacerdoti | 3 comments | 05 Jan 25 01:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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yakshaving_jgt ◴[05 Jan 25 04:11 UTC] No.42599708[source]▶
I think many of these are just design trends. As in, I think in a lot of cases web designers will add these “features” not for a deeply considered reason, but simply because that’s the thing everyone else seems to be doing.

I’ve had to be pretty firm in the past with marketing teams that want to embark on a rebrand, and say however the design looks, it can’t include modal windows or animated carousels. And I think people think you’re weird when you say that.

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1. raegis ◴[05 Jan 25 07:47 UTC] No.42600364[source]▶
> I’ve had to be pretty firm in the past with marketing teams that want to embark on a rebrand, and say however the design looks, it can’t include modal windows or animated carousels. And I think people think you’re weird when you say that.

Some small businesses create websites for branding only, and get their business exclusively offline. They just want to have a simple, static site to say "we exist, and we are professionals", so they are fine with the latest in web design.

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2. yakshaving_jgt ◴[05 Jan 25 09:51 UTC] No.42600763[source]▶
Right. What I’m suggesting is their simple static site should probably just show the content they want to show, rather than write extra code [and add additional complexity] which makes that content gratuitously slide around the screen.
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3. TRiG_Ireland ◴[05 Jan 25 23:12 UTC] No.42605873[source]▶
Carousels exist because everyone wants their pet project to be on the home page, and no one at the company has enough willpower to put a stop to that nonsense. No one actually likes the things.