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athelindWhy do web designers think that re-sizing your browser window without asking is necessary or desirable? Nobody going to a site is going to jump up and down with joy and say, "Hooray! You resized my window so I can't see anything else on my desktop/none of the other pages go to look right!"
At best, the reaction is going to be shrug-who-cares or, for the truly oblivious, "I didn't notice". More often, it's going to range from irritation through "this honks me off so badly I'm gonna make a blog entry" to "no way am I going to buy anything from these annoying fuckwits."
It's almost as bad as a pop-under ad. The usual phrasing of "going to a website" isn't exactly the right metaphor -- you're really inviting the website onto your machine. And just because I invite you into my home doesn't mean you can rearrange the furniture without asking.
If you do insist on the "going to" frame, then think of "going to" a store, and as soon as you walk in the door, someone grabs you from behind and ties a tie around your neck.
Edit: Company websites shouldn't just be ads, either. They should have useful information, vital statistics for products, maybe even PDFs of user manuals.
At best, the reaction is going to be shrug-who-cares or, for the truly oblivious, "I didn't notice". More often, it's going to range from irritation through "this honks me off so badly I'm gonna make a blog entry" to "no way am I going to buy anything from these annoying fuckwits."
It's almost as bad as a pop-under ad. The usual phrasing of "going to a website" isn't exactly the right metaphor -- you're really inviting the website onto your machine. And just because I invite you into my home doesn't mean you can rearrange the furniture without asking.
If you do insist on the "going to" frame, then think of "going to" a store, and as soon as you walk in the door, someone grabs you from behind and ties a tie around your neck.
Edit: Company websites shouldn't just be ads, either. They should have useful information, vital statistics for products, maybe even PDFs of user manuals.
