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Web Pages That Suck > 2004’s Biggest Web Design Mistakes

February 3, 2005 in Web Implementation
Short URL: http://boyink.me/s/2444

“I went through every Daily Sucker for the last year and I’ve come up with a list of what I think were the biggest web design mistakes.  These mistakes apply only to real sites—not personal, band, music, art, movie, experimental, fashion, and (some) sport sites.” Full Article >>

Vincent Flanders checks in with a list of biggest design mistakes from 2004.  I must admit - I’ve stopped visiting Vincent’s site as often as I used to as it seems like the “Daily Suckers” just go on repeating the same mistakes over and over. 

This list confirms that for me - there’s nothing here (with the exception of #3 “Mystical belief in the power of Web Standards, Usability, and tableless CSS”) that we weren’t complaining about as far back as 3-4 years ago (Vincent’s book “Son of Web Pages That Suck” has a Copyright date of 2002 and looks to cover everything this article does).

But the sheer fact that sites keep on committing these mistakes tells me that either experienced designers aren’t paying attention, or that web design has a steady influx of new designers that haven’t yet learned.

Kudos to Vincent for keeping up the fight.  I know I’d get tired of preaching the same sermon every week…;)

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  1. sparky on February 03, 2005

    R) I notice he links to the W3C validator in reference to his home page being compliant yet when you click the link it comes up as not being XHTML transitional compliant.

    http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/

    Just seems ironic.

  2. Michael Boyink (Author) on February 04, 2005

    Huh…validated for me.

    FWIW, I don’t display the link to the validator because so often something in the content or a linked URL etc will cause a page not to validate. 

    I validate the basic page templates during development,  but figure most folks dont know or care enough about validation to worry about putting the links in everywhere.

  3. sparky on February 04, 2005

    I tried it twice to be sure.

    I check from time to time just for fun.

    It’s useful for finding mistakes in your pages but as a bragging point, I don’t know about that.

  4. MeanDean on February 05, 2005

    Sparky - much of what goes on at WPTS are intentional parodies of suckieness. Trust me, if you’re there for a while, you’ll see all sortsa wierd things put there on purpose.

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