Today I stumbled across a very interesting website. It is different from any website I have ever seen because it actually encourages the viewer not to click on anything. What did I just say? That’s right… don’t click it! In fact, if you do click, whether it is accidental or intentional, you will get a screen similar to the snowy screen on the old boob tube. Navigation, voting, options, reading, etc. are all controlled by hovering your cursor over objects. Now, I do think the site is very creative and neat, but what the heck are they thinking?
I have recently been bitten by the advertising bug and am trying to come up with some ideas to blog about to earn some extra pocket change. With that said, if a site discouraged clicks and had advertising on it, how the heck would one make money?
A peculiar site but an idea I would never pursue. Check it out for yourself www.dontclick.it.
That site is interesting. Most likely, clicking would be replaced with some other intuitive system, such as hovering and going straight to the page, or opening the site in an hovered state.
What about if you hover over a banner, and instead of having to click, a message came up over it and asked if you wanted to visit the site. Non-obstructive and allowed the user to continue on. Kind of like the damn flash game banners that want you to shoot something or other, except it wouldn’t suck. Some other sites take on this non-clicking approach, however, it can be annoying at times.