Comments on: In Response to “Things I Want Gone from the Web in 2007″ https://www.webmaster-source.com/2007/11/19/in-response-to-things-i-want-gone-from-the-web-in-2007/ Useful Resources For Webmasters Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 By: Matt https://www.webmaster-source.com/2007/11/19/in-response-to-things-i-want-gone-from-the-web-in-2007/#comment-526 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:43:08 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/2007/11/19/in-response-to-things-i-want-gone-from-the-web-in-2007/#comment-526 “I see that the CAPTCHA is still in place.” I took it off for a day, and I was hit with a flood of spam that slipped through Akismet. I’ll have to do more research into antispam measures. I’ve been wanting to get rid of the CAPTCHA, but I don’t want to spend an hour every day deleting spam.

“What I don’t understand is the “why”. Why torture your visitors with such games when they aren’t necessary. I know why people do it. I question their motive.” Their motive is to have high Google rankings, and a flood of visitors. However, they’re not being nice to their repeat visitors…so they probably don’t have many.

“As for the problems you perceive on flexible layouts versus fixed width layouts, if done right, there are few problems with flexible layouts.” They can be done right, and I’m not totally against them (maybe I should have worded the post a bit better), but I don’t know why, I just don’t like designs with variable widths. I don’t know why, I’m just not a big fan of them. If there was an easier (and reliable) way to mark a DIV with a minimum/maximum width, then I’d go right ahead and rebuild all the designs I’ve made to be at least partially flexible.

]]> By: Lorelle https://www.webmaster-source.com/2007/11/19/in-response-to-things-i-want-gone-from-the-web-in-2007/#comment-524 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:34:09 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/2007/11/19/in-response-to-things-i-want-gone-from-the-web-in-2007/#comment-524 I see that the CAPTCHA is still in place. :D

Actually, I do know the reason behind Javascript driven links, and there are many reasons, of which you described, as well as for stats, control of destination, and advertising. What I don’t understand is the “why”. Why torture your visitors with such games when they aren’t necessary. I know why people do it. I question their motive.

As for the problems you perceive on flexible layouts versus fixed width layouts, if done right, there are few problems with flexible layouts. The problem is that anyone with a browser and a little knowledge can create a web page design. Doesn’t mean they know what they are doing. :D

Thanks for reminding me about this almost year old article. I’ll have to get my thinking cap on to think up some new annoyances (oh, there are many, trust me) for next year’s post.

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