Product Description
Building Really Annoying Web Sites is a subversive new book that will teach you the long soughtafter secrets of how to add all sorts of truly irritating effects to your own personal Web pages.
- Make all the menus and buttons in a browser window disappear
- Change a cursors shape, without the users permission
- Create impossibletoclose popup windows
- Add aggravating Flash animations and movies
- Trap users in framed pages if they try to link off your page
- And much more!
Each annoying effect is followed by a section explaining why it would be wrong to add that effect to a Web page,along with suggestions for a more appropriate approach that wellintentioned designers can take, if they so desire.
Synopsis
This is the tongue-in-cheek, hands-on guide to all those annoying effects you've seen on other sites and secretly desired for your own. Building Really Annoying Web Sites is a subversive new book that will teach you the long sought-after secrets of how to add all sorts of truly irritating effects to your own personal Web pages. These include all our old favourites, such as: Making all the menus and buttons in a browser window disappear; Changing a cursor's shape, without the user's permission; Creating impossible-to-close pop-up windows; Adding aggravating Flash animations and movies; Trapping users in framed pages if they try to link off your page; Each annoying effect is followed by a section explaining why it would be wrong to add that effect to a Web page and suggesting a more appropriate approach that well-intentioned users can take, if they so desire. So, it's entirely possible that designers wanting to create non-annoying Web pages might also buy this book, to learn what not to do.
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