What's with all the graphics? (Rant)
 

WTF is up with all the affiliate programs/sites that insist on killing your system with a ton of unnecessary graphics, such as Flash.

I am not at the site to surf and look at the pretty pictures and design, merely to collect (stats or link codes) and get back to making money.

At the very least respect the busy webmaster and offer a toned-down
version.


... and it is times like this that make me say thank you to Mo for providing me with Adblock extensions for FF.

They all think that they have to look like they spent $100k for a design in order to be taken seriously. Like we'd all go "wow, they obviously have lots of money, I'll send them all my traffic!"

:1orglaugh sounds about right.

I think they should worry about what really matters, being their paysites - remember who the surfers are and concentrate efforts there.

How come most of them also have a hot car? In many cases the same mercedes? I would like the option to sign in without that flash shit once i'm already an affiliate

Got to agree on some of that.

Some flash webmaster areas are really crappy. I hate flash login boxes that don't have a standard login box that comes up if you simply hit Enter allowing you to use your form filler.

Platinumbucks' site looks hot.. but makes my computer freezes every now and then... And worst of all.. a member area in Flash?!? I cant even see my stats using netscape... (my explorer aint working because of scumwares..)

that I could care less about ... they want to buy a Chrysler ... all the power to them.

Yes, that is exactly what I am going off about.

it works with FireFox ... however it took me 20-minutes to block out all the ads and crap.

Again, thank you Adblock:
http://www.AFFILIATE_SITE.com/flash/*.*.swf
Bye-bye flash

Some may view this as 'stealing' (referring to that dumbass commercial about not watching uh ... commercials) but WFC! Not me yoink!

i think a flashy webmaster tour is ok, but please leave the stats area alone

Sure ... entire webmaster area should be bare bones.

I'm with Paco on this one.

Maybe my not being from the video game generation makes the 'cool shiny objects' on the b2b side distracting and pointess. What I'm looking for can be done with text only - the simpler the better!

I love sponsors who have clean simple layouts.

Don't even get me started on sponsors who throw popups at me on the b2b side.

-Dino

OMG I agree! I have actually requested that some of my sponsors give me a text only stats area lol... and no, I don't want to use stats remote, I like refreshing =P

I think it's totally unnecessary to have high resolution, fancy, webmaster areas. I swear some stats areas could pass as a 4 page tour!

and to that I say WOOF!

:1orglaugh

BINGO!

thank god someone else agrees, flash is the devil, it is terrible i will NEVER use flash for anything. just because something spics 3 times doesnt mean shit.

respectable business' with a quality product dont need the extra crap. :2 cents:

lol large cash has flash on their site and i'm pretty sure you work from them... does their site piss you off as well?

Yes, Large Cash has a small amount of Flash on the front page, before logging in, but not on the inside.

Yes, I am with Large Cash.

Yes, I use the Adblock extension in FF to block our own graphics.

I sincerely apologize if I seem or am being hypocritical - I am referring to the interior, but yes, we are guilty.

that's too much of an extreme stance.

there are particular cases in which flash can be very beneficial. www.ediets.com for example - click "Take a Tour" - very effective tour.