When you visit a web site which is riddled with problems, don't spend ages
writing out massive descriptions of all the problems. Just send them an e-mail,
and give them the address http://get.to/thekirunnetwork somewhere in it, plus
the number of their faults.
Handy List of Crimes
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Crime Number
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Crime Name
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Crime Description
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Severity
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1
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Excessive 404s
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The occasional broken link is OK, if it's fixed soon enough. The crime is when
the links are just left. Related to...
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-
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2
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No updates, ever
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Site last updated 03\09\96. Great. None of the links work, there are promises
of more updates and new sections 'soon'
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-
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3
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Terrible colour scheme
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Either 256 colour users see nothing, most users are left feeling physically ill
due to colour clashes or the site is monochrome.
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-
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4
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Useless backgrounds
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Like 3, but a poor choice of background has rendered the site unreadable
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-
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5
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No-one cares
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The web site is just about the author, his pets, his house, car etc. Nobody
else in the world cares at all. The counter just about stretches to double
figures.
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-
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6
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Annoying graphics
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Fake 'web counters', themes that came with your web editor and all manner of
cheesy animated GIFs.
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-
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7
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Too big
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Web site is 95% graphics, like everyone in the world has an ISDN line and free
phone calls.
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-
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8
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Navigational nightmare
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Occasionally, it is nessacary to refresh a page. When a different one starts
loading up, and a tree of links has to be followed to find where you were.
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-
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9
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Too many links
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The links section features links to hundreds of similar sites. There is no
indication of which ones link to the good sites.
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-
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10
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General scrappiness
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Hundreds of spelling errors, inconsistent styling, non-seamless backdrops.
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-
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11
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No stuff
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There are hundreds of free counters, guestbooks, polls, forums, MIDI files,
members' lists etc but not in the world of the webmaster who made this site.
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-
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12
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No content
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Opposite to crime 12. All multimedia trickery, nothing to actually read. Sites
like ShockRave are excused, as there's lots to do.
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Please vote on the crimes in the survey. If you want to suggest any new
crimes, there's a box on te survey. I'll put them in a new survey when there's
enough questions.
