I'm torn on this one. We should be able to decorate our shops, it's fun! But there's going too far or just not knowing what you're doing.
As far as totally messed up html so you can't even buy something? If I could I'd neomail the person and tell them that people can't buy from their shop. Maybe they set the table up really screwy -- I've seen that alot. That and people not copying the entire shop blog code -- all their stuff ends up in the blog!
Music, animated backgrounds, too many gifs, etc. There are atually alot of us on dial up. I'm sorry, I'm not going to sit and wait 5 minutes for a shop to load, plus if people have too much stuff in their shop it can lock my browser up and I have to reboot. Like you go to a shop and the person's got what looks like every doll ever made, all the neopets animated images, music, an animated background, a blog, that rose, and then some adoptables. And they have 1 thing for sale in their shop
Yes, I have a background, 2 dividerbars, 3 small gifs (in separate places) and a marquee. On dial up it takes well less than a minute to load - I've tested it, just to be sure I'm not going to turn anyone away from my shop.
I had a short wav in my gallery, but with having some images and over 300 (boy am I broke) items in it, it was just one more thing to load, so I took it out.