Web Designers: Read this article!
by Randall McCarley
June 27th, 2007
Jim Cook at Design Refugee has assembled 50 Common Web Design Mistakes. Jim has been teaching web design for years and has an all-star line up of clients including the Catholic Church, Country singer Vince Gill, the St. Louis Sports Commission, the Ronald McDonald House and the NCAA.
My favorite points include:
1. Untitled documents
4. Duplicate meta information on all pages
8. “Under Construction” pages
9. Frames
11. Worthless content
16. “Alien” pages
23. Restyling text instead of using heading tags
25. Using images for text
33. “Ransom” note styling
36. Resizing images in the browser
39. Gratuitous Flash
46. Reliance on email links
48. Auto-play sounds
Jim’s original article explains all of these issues and they are all things I regularly encounter online and explain to my clients. If you are building a website, this is a great checklist of things to avoid.
And if you want to know more about Jim Cook, check out his interview.
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