The "Don'ts" of successful web design


There are always positive and negative aspects to good web designs. This topics is meant to discuss the negatives.

Tags: design, web design

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Do Not Auto-Start Any Media (Sound or Video)

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Unless I'm going to your page in order to watch a video or listen to a song, don't play the song or video for me.

Nothing makes me leave a webpage faster.

It's one of the biggest reasons I loathe MySpace.

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Only test in IE7

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Don't make it blink

Remember <blink>blink</blink>?
I'm so glad we have all agreed to evolve beyond that.

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Poor Text Alignment

Poor text alignment, poor colour choices and miss aligning your text can really harm your site.

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Opening links in other windows

Don't you hate when websites open links in other window (i.e., target="_blank").
Why don't they let me choose if I want to open them in other window or current one?

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Use the phrase "my user won't ever..."

Examples: ...have more than 2 email addresses ...have a username longer than 25 characters ...put crazy, weird characters into anything ^$%$ß∂åß∂∂&c
opy;©ß¥¥ˆ´∑
∆˜∂瘵.... [show more]

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Large fixed-size tables

What about tables with a width larger than your screen width forcing you to scroll right and left with each line you read?

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cfurneaux cfurneaux: 233 points   11 months ago

Max Kerning Knows about good design!

http://www.maxkerning.com/

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squiggle squiggle: 692 points   11 months ago

You cannot be serious?

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cfurneaux cfurneaux: 233 points   10 months ago

A design teacher showed me that. Funny stuff.

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estores estores: 55 points   9 months ago

LOL. Very good example about what not to do ;-)

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jody jody: 171 points   3 months ago

that is hi.lar.i.ous.

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estores estores: 55 points   9 months ago

I like very much ESR's HTML Hell Page about bad web designing: http://catb.org/esr/html-hell.html

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This topic was started by cfurneaux cfurneaux: 233 points on January 9th, 2009. 26 members have voted on one or more of the 9 answers.

Tags: design, web design

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