helpful hint

[mmcirvin]

It makes your Web page a trillion times better if it plays annoying sound files every time somebody visits it.

Comments

[jwgh]

Thanks! My web page was already improved 1000% by previous suggestions along these lines, so I'll have to give this a whirl when I get a chance.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

My webpage cannot be updated as the host, internettrash.com has decided that being broken is a preferable state of existence. Also, I suck

Steal this idea, please.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

I read this and pictured your Mac making its little quack sound every time someone passes through your Push-Button World of Tomorrow, which would be interesting, but would soon get old, and so I couldn't at all see how that's a trillion times better than, say, a hit-counter or a site-visits stats package.

Proxomitron 4.5 has a filter that lets you turn sounds like that into a link at the top of the page, so you can hear it only if you want to.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Also, you should use an animated GIF as the background that cycles between several different busy, brightly-colored, high-contrast patterns, and the entire page should be filled with rambling multicolored text that is of similar brightness to the GIF.

I have found, in practice, that pages like the above almost always have something to do with advocating pot legalization.

[jwgh]

Hm, I never realized that that was the subtext of this page.