Where shall I start? I know, let me first have a go at the world's most popular website builder ... Wordpress. In my opinion Wordpress has four major things wrong with it.
1. It encourages users to make lines of text far too long, often ending up with over 100 characters to a line. I've gone-on about this else ware on this site, so I won't repeat myself here. Apart from "Just don't do it".
2. Scrolling. Every Wordpress website I've seen has involved far too much scrolling. I don't care that some people may think it's a fashion in web design, it's not, it's just a lazy way to build a site and goes against one of the fundamental rules of good web design. Which is that all relevant information should be visible without excessive scrolling.
3. You can always tell when a site has been built with Wordpress. In other words in most cases they all look the same.
4. They give the impression that you are getting a free website. OK, you build the site for free. But, there are many other ways to do that, including this site. The fact is you still have to pay for hosting and a Domain Name. |
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Mobile phones, or as our colonial friends say Cell phones, are wonderful things. They are really good for making phone calls, and very good at taking pictures, as long as you don't mind the lettering on your T-shirt being back to front.
What they are really bad at are accessing websites. It's the equivalent of looking at the pyramids of Egypt, or the Scottish Highlands through a keyhole. The browsers have no tabs, so the windows are all on top of each other. Most people haven't got the sense to use them in landscape. Every time I pick mine up some ap, I don't want jumps up and obscures what I do want, because I touched some weird button with my clumsy fingers.
Most websites are not phone-friendly, so you have to enlarge bits of a page with that strange finger and thumb movement, like you were playing with a bogey.
My phone tends to ignore most of my touch-screen efforts, no matter how hard I bash it.
Note A. There are other website builders similar to Wordpress that are equaly guilty.
Note B. Less than 10% of the pages on this site require any scrolling. |
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Here is an example of how bad a scrolling Wordpress website can be. Oh dear, it's their own site at wordpress.com
My scrolling finger was numb by the time I had taken all 16 screenshots needed to get all of their one page site. Even reducing the page width to a mere 350 pixels it has no chance of fitting into my page. So, if you want to see it all, you'll need to scroll ... sorry.
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