‘Click to enter this site’

It’s almost as annoying as pop-up windows and websites on which music plays as soon as the page loads: the message. Folks, if I didn’t want to enter the site then I wouldn’t have steered my browser in your direction. At the very least, if you must give me a ’snazzy’ front page then give me some more navigational options. However, the whole concept demonstrates a pathetic misunderstanding of the concept of a website: there is no front page. Visitors will enter through whichever page the referring site chose to link.

Possibly related:

• Blummy? One to look at later
• What would Jesus do?
• The Old Site