Comments on: Rent.com is pushy and annoying http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/rentcom-doesnt-listen/ Gino Zahnd's weblog about design, culture, and Whatever™. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:24:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: ChrisF http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/rentcom-doesnt-listen/#comment-971 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:47:28 +0000 http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/rentcom-doesnt-listen/#comment-971 It seems to me that this is the black-framed-glasses wearing version of the epilepsy-inducing flashing banner ads we all suffered in 1996. Except this time, it's Web2.0, dontchaknow? It seems to me that this is the black-framed-glasses wearing version of the epilepsy-inducing flashing banner ads we all suffered in 1996.

Except this time, it’s Web2.0, dontchaknow?

]]> by: Damien Newman http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/rentcom-doesnt-listen/#comment-518 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:54:10 +0000 http://www.pushbuttonfor.org/rentcom-doesnt-listen/#comment-518 I can't believe it - just now I was browsing my <a title="Speakeasy - oh what have you done?" target="_blank" href="http://www.speakeasy.net/">ISP's site</a> for support, and a little screen drops down. I browsed another section - and the thing slipped down the screen again. How unbelievably obtrusive, jarring and unnecessary. Peeps: just because you can doesn't mean you should. Let's lose the AJAXy salesman approach. Go back to well places targets on the page. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mdnpress.com/drop/pbf/piss-off.png">View larger screencapture here</a>. I can’t believe it - just now I was browsing my ISP’s site for support, and a little screen drops down. I browsed
another section - and the thing slipped down the screen again.

How unbelievably obtrusive, jarring and unnecessary. Peeps: just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Let’s lose the AJAXy salesman approach. Go back to well places targets on the page.

View larger screencapture here.

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