[LINK] Fwd: Re: Unusable Web-Site

[Roger Clarke]

At 15:11 +1000 16/7/07, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>Other users might not see it as a problem, though. ...

Is my taxis *really* worse than other people's? 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxis

A sample page from the site in question is here:
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=6104

The AFR ads bobbling around on it at present are bad - although not 
as bad as some that were hurtling around there a few days ago.

Apart from busting (some people's) concentration, bouncing images 
significantly detract from the attempt to point-and-drag in order to 
extract quotes from papers.

For the record, no I don't have an issue with the use of advertising 
as a means of earning money.  It's the intrusiveness into the 
would-be reader's attention-space that's at issue.

(And clearly a site that's intended to offer overloaded multi-media, 
and where the consumer's expectation is to be subjected to cognitive 
overload, is a different kettle of fish from a site with genuine 
content intended for consumption using intellect as well as - or even 
instead of - the more pleasurable sensory organs).

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