Stale out of date information

Having to use the horizontal scrollbar

Poor overall appearance

No contact information

Purpose of site not obvious on the home page

Purpose of each page not explained at top of page

Advertising banners

Pop up messages

Frames - What's wrong with Frames? - Frames Pros and Cons

Pages too wide requiring horizontal scrolling - Page Width

Pages too long (need to be split up)

Slow loading home page especially bad

Slow loading pages

Intros are by now considered out dated

Loading . . . Loading . . . Loading . . .

Free hosting means low bandwidth, commercials, pop ups

Slow performance servers are available even if not for free

A cool features website rather than content oriented

Low priority information on the home page

Sought after important information buried deeper in the site

Grammatical and spelling errors

Text written in all capital letters

Text that is too small

Text that is too large

Fonts that only work on your computer

Mix of too many fonts, text sizes or colors

Not enough contrast ratio (may be ok on your screen, but not mine)

Not enough white space

Too much white space

Text too close to borders

Poor contrast ratio between text and background

No paragraph breaks on long pages

Too many abbreviations, especially if not explained

Poor color choices

Too many graphics

Graphics (e.g. photos) too large

A large graphic downsized by the web page's HTML code
Uncompressed graphics

Images that don't load (i.e. broken)

Lack of ALT tags to explain each graphic (e.g. for blind readers)

Broken links

Hi-jacking the back button so you cannot escape the site (frame problem)

Non-standard navigation colors

Mystery navigation leaves you guessing where you will end up next

Easter egg navigation, scattered and camouflaged all over the page

A different mix of links in the various locations of a page

Too many site navigation links on each page

Links open a new browser window

Navigation scheme changes from page to page

Home button difficult or impossible to find

Navigation links that turn out to be mailto: links

Navigation that all too often leads to a PDF file

Contact links that turn out to be an email link

Orphan pages that assume the back button is sufficient

Search engine blocking navigation (e.g. Java Script links w/o a site map)

To find out about Disney Land click here (problem for blind readers)

Poorly done title tags which are so important to search engines

Important site and page titles and descriptions done in graphics instead of text

Poor use of frames, search engines don't like frames

Site navigation that search engines can't use

Fixes (e.g. for framed site) that look like SPAM, getting the site black listed

Dynamically generated pages that the robots can't or won't navigate

  Symbols in a page's URL that search engines don't like (e.g. & $ = % ?)

Server time outs result in search engine robots abandoning the site

Requiring the latest version of Internet Explorer or Netscape

Requiring the down loading of plugins

Poor browser compatibility (e.g. only works properly with Internet Explorer)

Flash intros are out dated and no longer considered popular by visitors

Animations (cool a few years ago, now considered very annoying)

Text scrolling down (was cool, not anymore)

Text scrolling horizontally (was cool, not anymore)

Using the Blink Tag

Animated bullets

Under Construction signs, especially the animated ones

Music and other sounds that play automatically (the boss may be listening)

Frames that cut off part of a page horizontally

Poor use of frames

Busy, distracting backgrounds

Poor organization

Different backgrounds on each page