Comments on: self-centered

By: knowhow

knowhow — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:59:36 +0000

There is nothing more annoying than to manually choose for a country in a dropdown menu. There is plenty of solutions available (free) to detect visitors IP compare it with a monthly updated IP database and display the country flag automatically. I highly recommend maxmind.com for the free database.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:33:17 +0000

Here in Australia, I don’t seem to have that problem?

By: smartass

smartass — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:25:01 +0000

A tip: when you display the drop-down list, press the key “u” followed by “n”. Your country apperas without scrolling and searching. Magic!

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:06:14 +0000

That is selfish, not just “self-centered”!… Really, sorry for this. Alphabetic order is the fairest one. I don’t believe that someone, i.e. in Afghanistan bothered many years ago to call that country Afghanistan, because it will list first in a drop down menu on a website. And, please, don’t scream about usability, I am among those people, that like you have to scroll down on that list. But…
Oh, ok, thats enough. Just I wonder, ever tried to find an answer to the question why other citizens of this planet think about us as arrogant and pathetic Americans?!
Just my 2 cents. Freedom of Speech; right?!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:05:12 +0000

It seems a little behind the times that they need to ask at all. Use a little Geo IP action, then if necessary, just include a “Change Country” link someone on the site.

I agree with S on the UPS site… I don’t think I’ve gone there more than 3 or 4 times without having to choose my location again.

By: s

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:44:53 +0000

No friggin’ kidding, dude. The most annoying one to me is UPS (not surprising, since UPS is annoying in nearly every possible way). They set a cookie to remember which country you want, and the expiration date is a year out, but for some reason I have to re-choose my country ALL THE TIME anyway. Argh!!!