Another thing annoying about websites
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Oftentimes, the country selection combo-box includes all the countries. The top selection is almost always Afghanistan. Now if those websites even have a single visitor from Afghanistan, I can think of it being justified. To select united states either you have to use scroll the big selection or press the U button and go through Uganda, United Kingdom and the finally United States. If you are a US based site targeted towards Americans why not make US the first choice in the list. If you want to show of your programming skills why not automatically select the country based on IP address to ease things a little bit.
I agree, I always thought of creating one more column on the country list table,
weight
then assign some 'makes sense' values, later adjust the weight based on the number of visitors from different country and then sort the list
by weight,name
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Oftentimes, the country selection combo-box includes all the countries. The top selection is almost always Afghanistan. Now if those websites even have a single visitor from Afghanistan, I can think of it being justified. To select united states either you have to use scroll the big selection or press the U button and go through Uganda, United Kingdom and the finally United States. If you are a US based site targeted towards Americans why not make US the first choice in the list. If you want to show of your programming skills why not automatically select the country based on IP address to ease things a little bit.
Adding to the annoyance, they sometimes use localized country names, sometimes they don't. That puts me either near Ghana or near Dänemark.
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Because of our client base and their locations we put all of the English speaking countries first (UK, US, Canada, etc), then Europe then everywhere else. It took a while to decide upon the best sort order but it seems to work.
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You're taking the risk of infuriating the people that are not in the 'favorites' list though.
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And furthermore... Why has no one made a list control with Intellisense? So often I have to select a state, and of course, Alabama and Alaska come before Arizona, so I have to scroll down to reach it. Would it be so hard to make a control that advances through the list as I type? Besides, when I encounter these things I hate having to switch from keyboard to mouse for just one field on a form. It would make sense to use pattern matching in such a way that as I type in the state (or country) name, the selection would shift to the best match in the list.
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Oftentimes, the country selection combo-box includes all the countries. The top selection is almost always Afghanistan. Now if those websites even have a single visitor from Afghanistan, I can think of it being justified. To select united states either you have to use scroll the big selection or press the U button and go through Uganda, United Kingdom and the finally United States. If you are a US based site targeted towards Americans why not make US the first choice in the list. If you want to show of your programming skills why not automatically select the country based on IP address to ease things a little bit.
The worst scenario is when your Country can be designated with different names and you have to scroll up and down to see which is available. ie:
Angleterre
England
Engeland
Inglaterra
Great Britain
Grande Bretagne
Reino Unido
United Kingdom
UK
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Oftentimes, the country selection combo-box includes all the countries. The top selection is almost always Afghanistan. Now if those websites even have a single visitor from Afghanistan, I can think of it being justified. To select united states either you have to use scroll the big selection or press the U button and go through Uganda, United Kingdom and the finally United States. If you are a US based site targeted towards Americans why not make US the first choice in the list. If you want to show of your programming skills why not automatically select the country based on IP address to ease things a little bit.
I haven't had to input country in quite a while, since Chrome does it for me. Too bad though, since I became quite accustomed to the typical CCC<tab.> Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, <tab> :)
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Oftentimes, the country selection combo-box includes all the countries. The top selection is almost always Afghanistan. Now if those websites even have a single visitor from Afghanistan, I can think of it being justified. To select united states either you have to use scroll the big selection or press the U button and go through Uganda, United Kingdom and the finally United States. If you are a US based site targeted towards Americans why not make US the first choice in the list. If you want to show of your programming skills why not automatically select the country based on IP address to ease things a little bit.
There are also those websites that select a language based on your IP address, and then do not let you change it. Just because I'm in the Netherlands doesn't mean I want to read anything in Dutch, especially not if it's a completely broken translation (which it usually is)
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Speaking of annoying. What about CAPTCHA? I understand the need and purpose, but some implementations I've come across are so difficult to discern, they render any attempts to input, completely useless. Yeah, I'm old and I wear glasses, but my eyes are not that bad. :) For example. See here[^]. On the hand right side, the lower set of three examples. I'd fail on two of those three. The middle one. Does it start with "3rn" or is it "3m".
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Yep, completely understand the need for them... but they do get annoying... X|
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It reminds me of this (3rd picture): http://theoatmeal.com/comics/shopping_cart[^]
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There are also those websites that select a language based on your IP address, and then do not let you change it. Just because I'm in the Netherlands doesn't mean I want to read anything in Dutch, especially not if it's a completely broken translation (which it usually is)
My ISP must sometimes route my traffic through some other random-a** places... so I occasionally go to webpages and see stuff in another language I don't speak and then the real swearing starts when I'm trying to figure out how to change the language... :mad:
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Chris defaulted a member's country to USA for years on CP :-) Then for a short while he defaulted it to Afghanistan. I agree with you, IP based auto-selection works best! If that's not available, select the country that's your primary target audience (usually the USA).
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
usually the USA
?????? really?
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
usually the USA
?????? really?
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Yeah, based on numbers, yes.
Regards, Nish
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Yeah, based on numbers, yes.
Regards, Nish
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As of March this year, America had 272million internet users, asia 922 million, europe 476 million - so based on numbers of web sites NOT targeting US users the numbers speak for themselves. Sure, if you compare individual countries, then USA may well be highest, but I would suggest that there are more web sites not targeting the USA than there are that are (wow, that was a good sentence!)
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That's nothing. On the wizzair.com[^] web check-in page, you have to provide nationality and passport issuer. Now, it may be required BUT: 0. Since when is United Kingdom a nationality? It's British, just as it should be Hungarian not Hungary, German not Germany or Usian not USA. Get it right, use the demonym! 1. How many people will be selecting two different countries? If I selected United Kingdom [British] for my nationality, I will not be getting my passport from Turkmenistan! Link the frigging picklists! Also, while I'm ranting, use some f'ing date controls! Three picklists is not the frogging same!
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Nagy Vilmos wrote:
0. Since when is United Kingdom a nationality? It's British, just as it should be Hungarian not Hungary, German not Germany or Usian not USA. Get it right, use the demonym!
British should be banned as a nationality! I'm from England and I'm English, ask a man from Wales if they are Welsh or British; I bet they say Welsh. I would bet a Scotsman would say he's Scottish and not British as well. There is no meaning to the word British any more other than to say we come from a particular land mass which is what Britain is; England, Wales and Scotland.
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