February 1, 2007 1:27 pm
About.com, I Don’t Like You.
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Is it just me, or does anyone else hate about.com? Anything I find there is either a) utterly worthless or b) so ad-filled and poorly laid out that I can’t figure out if it’s utterly worthless or not.
I can’t stand that awful orangey-red color of all their sidebar links – it vibrates against the white and makes the page difficult to look at. It gives me pop-up ads even in Firefox and some of their inline ads are so giant they compress the column of text to about 150px wide.
Any time I click on a search result link without thinking and it takes me to about.com, I usually close the window before I even bother to read the information. It’s that bad.
ARGH.
4 Comments
They have useful information sometimes, but mostly it seems as though they grab someone off the street and tell them to write up an article.
Yeah, I totally hate them too
Yea… The layout is so tiny. I like have to squint my eyes to read it! :!:
Yeah it’s kinda annoying when I try to find some solutions to CSS or PHP problems… My search always continues after stumbling upon that site…