Beginner Web Design Mistakes

Post by PagingCraig » Sat, Mar 15, 2014, 4:16 AM UTC

Turing_Machine wrote: post #38

Iftheshoefits wrote: post #6

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That audience is some huge percentage of the internet userbase, because some huge percentage of people are "clueless and naive." So people who want to just make money off a widely read website would do well to do what works. Just like how in the mobile gaming space irritating pay-to-play/in-app-purchase driven "games" are the money makers, and people who make games in order to make a lot of money should probably make…

Well, everyone has to make their own ethical choices. Personally, I don't need the karma of annoying the customers, regardless of how much it may seem to work in the short term. I mean, you might as well be Zynga if you're going to do that. No company survives in the long term by annoying and/or abusing their customers.

Post by nickpettit » Sat, Mar 15, 2014, 6:03 PM UTC

snowwrestler wrote: post #39

nickpettit wrote: post #11

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Our data scientist at Treehouse actually tested this extensively, but it's such a complex issue (lots of qualitative/anecdotal/branding evidence that's difficult to measure) that the results are still inconclusive. Basically, it helped us and hurt us in different ways, but the long term effects seemed bad enough that we stopped.

If after extensive research the worst you can say is that "results are still inconclusive," it is hardly a "beginner web mistake" on par with bad navigation. I think the reason you included modal forms in your article is the same reason people are posting in this thread about them: you personally don't like them. I would say that "substituting your opinion for testing" actually is a beginner web design mistake.