THIS WEEK'S QUESTION:
List your top seven blogging pet peeves.
Here goes:
Small print – these tired old eyes just can't take it anymore. Sometimes it is the fault of the software, sometimes the author. Regardless, STOP IT! Anything less than 12 for regular entries is relegated to “fine print” status and is only of interest for contracts and prize awards.
Blogging to hear yourself think out loud – sorry for the scrambled metaphors. Far too many of us assume the world is really interested in our brain farts. If it ain't funny, it just ain't so, kiddos.
Broken links to images.
Images that are too small, but aren't thumbnails – this is akin to #1 above. Tired eyes, etc.
Failure to give credit where credit is due. We are all guilty of this to some extent, but some of us are chronic offenders who need to get our heads out of our asses and realize that plagiarism can result in real world consequences (lawsuits, jail time, assassination attempts, death).
Music or video that I can not turn off. This was really bad with dial up. Still, I have no desire to listen to some gangsta hip hop at 4AM when I'm blog jogging because I can't sleep. The wife doesn't appreciate it, either. Better bet: make it an opt-in situation and we all win.
Browser blind side -- Failure to consider what your template may look like when viewed by browsers other than IE6 (boo, hiss). There are a lot of other, much better browsers out there, starting with the grandaddy of them all, Mozilla, and going on to Netscape, Opera, and more esoteric entries. If you are doing anything other than a plain vanilla template with black type on a white boundary, get the rest of the browsers and at least look at your blog to see if there are any obvious problems.
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