Web Fail
Failing Web Site du jour: …
I tried, I really tried, to buy a sharpener for my chain saw chains. The equipment rental place that used to sharpen them for me now charges C$15 each. And I need about 4 or 5 sharpened per year (I’ve a lot of old trees that are literally falling down and need to be cut up). Since I can apparently …
Web Fail du jour: Toronto …
OK, I admit, I was going a few km/h over the speed limit in Toronto the other day (it was a main street so I thought it was a 50 zone, but it was 40). Well, actually, the other week. But I didn’t know it at the time. Twenty days later, I got a note in the mail with an "Automated Speed …
Failing Web Site Du Jour
Choice Hotels wants me to "upgrade" from Safari 11 to Safari 6, 7, 8 or 9. Nice.
Failing Web Site du jour, …
After letting me sign up for online banking with RBC, I went to create a direct investing account to buy some shares. After making me click 3 or 4 links to get to the "Create your account" page, I was presented with this bleak admission of failure:
Web Site Fail du jour
So Vizio has this real nice Google TV set-top box called the Co-Star, that they are now taking pre-orders for. But the web site is a total fail from the human factors point of view. It has fields for allowing you to enter different shipping and billing addresses, but when you do, it tells you they …
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Today's rant won't be politically correct. Not that you care, dear readers.
A problem with the Web in Canada is that most corporate and government sites force you to pick a language. Why is that a problem? Because you've already picked a language. If you're in Canada, odds are statistically likely …
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I get really frustrated when web sites tell me to "upgrade" from Firefox 3 to Firefox 1.5. I understand that they feel they have to play silly little trix to make their web site look like some over-inspired abstract landscape, but can they please just use a minimum of markup and get on …
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Here's another example of a stupid web site problem that could have been easily avoided. I sent this to (name of web site) this morning; let's see if I get a response from this one.
Your Web Developers need to get with the "don't make me think" program! Trying to sign up for the first …
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This is a cleaned-up version of what I sent to a major Canadian corporation's web team after trying to use their site.
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One thing that really sucks about some web sites, including yours, is the designers' wanton disregard for users' time. For example, I tried a simple thing …