top 10 things to learn from web pages that suck

[Matt Clara]

Interesting article--number three reminds me of many around these parts...
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/biggest-web-design-mistakes-in-2004.html

 

[Barbara de Zoete]

Interesting article--number three reminds me of many around these
parts...
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/biggest-web-design-mistakes-in-2004.html

Funny, author must have missed the one that says 'spoiling over half of
screen of visitor by using too narrow a collumn for displaying the main
content'.

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[Travis Newbury]

http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/biggest-web-design-mistakes-in-2004.html
Funny, author must have missed the one that says 'spoiling over half of
screen of visitor by using too narrow a collumn for displaying the main
content'.

Maybe he didn't miss it. Maybe that is not as big an issue for him as
it is for you. Not everyone agrees on what makes a good page and a bad
page. For the author, your width nssue may fall into this catagory.

 

[kchayka]

Funny, author must have missed the one that says 'spoiling over half of
screen of visitor by using too narrow a collumn for displaying the main
content'.

Just be thankful he didn't make it a fixed-width layout.

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Funny, author must have missed the one that says 'spoiling over
half of screen of visitor by using too narrow a collumn for
displaying the main content'.

Not surprising. There's a law that requires that any Web page that
teaches design principles and warns against bad practices must itself
make at least one _fundamental_ mistake in its design.

(If anyone tells that there's no such law, how else can he explain how
its principle actually applies without a single exception?)

Here's an example of a _bad_ title element (too long, not much
identifying information):

<title>Web Pages That Suck presents the biggest web design mistakes in
2004 learn usability and good Web design by looking at bad Web
design</title>

 

[Travis Newbury]

Not surprising. There's a law that requires that any Web page that
teaches design principles and warns against bad practices must itself
make at least one _fundamental_ mistake in its design.

Are your own pages included in this law? ;-)

 

[Jim Royal]

Funny, author must have missed the one that says 'spoiling over half of
screen of visitor by using too narrow a collumn for displaying the main
content'.

I think that the point of "Web Pages That Suck" would be lost if the
pages didn't suck.

 

[Lauri Raittila]

Are your own pages included in this law? ;-)

Background image? I use actually use:
#cs-tut-fi {background-image:none !important;}
#cs-tut-fi * {background-image:none !important;}
and user.js found from Rijk's page for Opera to get id.

Hard to say if it is fundamental flaw...

Propably others as well. (And my own pages are badly structured, server
sends no charset header...)

 

[Lauri Raittila]

Are your own pages included in this law? ;-)

Background image? I use actually use:
#cs-tut-fi {background-image:none !important;}
#cs-tut-fi * {background-image:none !important;}
and user.js found from Rijk's page for Opera to get id.

Hard to say if it is fundamental flaw...

Propably others as well. (And my own pages are badly structured, server
sends no charset header...)

 

[Leif K-Brooks]

Interesting article--number three reminds me of many around these parts...
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/biggest-web-design-mistakes-in-2004.html

"Remember, nobody gets excited about the tools used to build a house" --
except, of course, in a discussion group for house builders.

 

[joy beeson]

Funny, author must have missed the one that says 'spoiling over half of
screen of visitor by using too narrow a collumn for displaying the main
content'.

He also missed "All links open in a new window that you have
to fuss about getting rid of, and most of them lead only to
'click here to get plug-in', so visitor stops clicking on
links."

Joy Beeson