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- kalleanka, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12820 - Don't host your website with a $2.99 web host if you plan to submit a store to Digg.com. You most likely will have your account suspended.
- Matrix_Prime, on 10/12/2007, -4/+101wow, dead after 32 digs. Maybe you should add #20 to that list, don't host a website on a ***** ***** server.
- FyreGoddess, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43FTA:
8. If you’re website does not work in Firefox, welcome to 2007 DUMBASS. Yes in most markets Firefox only commands at most a 10-15% market share, but for some sites it’s much higher (my other site Oomny.com has 80% Firefox users). Furthermore, if the morons you hired didn’t make your site and functionality compatible with Firefox they obviously have no idea what they’re doing, and aren’t up on their game. I have no idea why you would need a website, or functionality system that is so dependent on IE that it simply can’t work in Firefox, and frankly it doesn’t matter because there is no good reason. The lack of Firefox knowledge by a webmaster shows they aren’t of the Internet culture, and that’s a bad sign if you’re a business owner.
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True enough, HOWEVER, it also still needs to work in IE. It really doesn't matter how far "evolved" you think you are in your online endeavors, you want to make it easy for people to see what you have to offer and not ensuring compatibility with IE pretty much cuts off a large portion of the population.
I can't even begin to count how many sites I've seen that have the "Works best in FF" button. Problem is, best or not, it should work - at all - in several different browsers. - turpenine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34nothing applies to all websites.
except the marquee thing. - coldfusion055, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33I think spelling is a rather big part of content there pal.
- joenewbreed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29overly broad, rather simplistic, and nothing in particular to write home about, but the overall gist of this rant is right on the money: "Don't make your visitors think"
dugg - josefresco, on 10/12/2007, -7/+33Exactly, if you "think outside the box" in regards to an interface that is intended to make money, you will usually confuse the consumer. Save it for your art project.
- gldfshnpcklejar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23no < marquee > ever
- GaffleSnipe, on 10/12/2007, -10/+31This is a poorly written article, clearly not well thought out. He bashes and rants mostly. There are many different uses, and purposes for designing websites, and he only focuses on one. Money.
"DO NOT try to reinvent the website navigation. Put it on the top, the left, hell even the right will work but do not try to reinvent the way people interact with digital interfaces while trying to actually sell your product or service. People will get confused, then annoyed, then pissed, then gone."
Great tip. Let's NOT try to think outside of the box, because that would make the web a better place for all of us. - brendanc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21No... by all means, USE WORDPRESS. But make sure you use the WP-CACHE plugin!
WP-Cache website: http://mnm.uib.es/gallir/wp-cache-2/
It saves yourself cpu usage and usually prevents your site's server from crashing (if your host craps out anyway... it's probably time to switch hosts...) - skrillaz, on 10/12/2007, -10/+29The "rant" style of writing made me lose interest.
The statistics - "50% of American web surfers..", "10% of the (dropdown menus)" - are pretty much made up on the spot. Not that the author was going for credibility or anything.
Some of the points are just plain wrong.
The overall gist is close to being on the money, but the article isn't worth bookmarking and going back to. - mildsoup, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19They probably digg it so when it's up again and off the frontpage, they can come back and read it.
- gldfshnpcklejar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Don't make your menu in each html file, and then only update the home page menu when things change.
- mikehill33, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1721: don't EVER use the word "webmaster" as an indicator of knowledge.
This nomenclature went out of style in 2000. - superpixel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14someone's host is getting a nasty email right now... let's picture it through the power of imagination, shall we?
"Dear SuckyHosting.foo:
I spent several moments whipping up a killah post about how to totally rock the wibshizzle, and I had planned for month on how this was my ticket to the BIG time. Then ur crappy hosting service shut me down after only a couple of diggs. WTF? You have cost me money!
I tried calling your help line, but got only voicemail. Your site says 24/7 tech support, so what gives?"
And tomorrow morning, some server monkey is going to try and figure out what in the hell a "digg" is... (because yes, there are still people, even in tech, who haven't heard of digg) - dallashigh, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19@Raluph:
http://www.digg.com/about
"Digg is a user driven social CONTENT website."
Not a single Digg page indicates that Digg is intended to be a social bookmarking site. Not one. - spewn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17#1) Make sure your servers can handle the digg-effect :P
- ricree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13@turpenine
< blink > - GaffleSnipe, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18Read my whole comment Joefresco. The title of the story doesn't include the word "eCommerce" at all. It's too focused for such a broad title. You just didn't get my point. I agree with him on an eCommerce site, but this doesn't apply to ALL websites.
- tagawa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Yes, webmistress is much better.
- mattcampbell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1420. dont' skimp on the bandwidth.
- frankerwa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11< blink >< marquee>< /blink >< /marquee>
FATALITY!
I cannot express the pain caused by the combination of these tags.
Usually accompanied by 46 or so mostly unrelated 'funny' animated GIFs. - CelebVoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10The irony is there
- IpHa, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Why do people keep posting duggmirror links without checking it first?
- Drull, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Looks like he forgot to respond to your point with some sort of witty-trying-to-be-awesome remark. :((
- josefresco, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14IE 6 (and now 7) support is a given.
- carolinaws, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8< marquee > ? That's nothing. Let's not forget < blink > !
- Frankie4Fingers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Using notepad is a waste of time if you write any code. Get a real editor and write complex code like a champion.
- p2btech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8This article was poorly written. I stopped reading about half the way through just because of the tone and some of the ignorance displayed in the writing. It was written too harsh for any beginner to take and utilize. It should have been written more of a nice friendly, stay away from this stuff kind of thing.
You clearly don't know how to write good tutorials. - jayt684, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"I ’ve compiled a small list (or rant) of some very basic and fundamental rules that all webmasters must learn and respect when developing a website that needs to make actual money."
As opposed to what, fake money? - binaryspiral, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Hosted on http://www.inetu.net/ -
His MySQL server is hammered into oblivion. I'm going to guess he's not running WP-Cache.
Sucker - it's the *first* thing you do when you build a wordpress blog.
Add that to your list - I'm doing better than you! - Wrathernaut, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I don't mind notepad... it's just that the single undo level sucks.
- HaltingPoint, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Here's another tip...submit several stories from your own sites in hopes one of them gets Dugg...blogspam.
- tuxidomasx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5how bout somebody post them all
- josefresco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Cache: http://72.14.209.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.josiahcole.com%2F2007%2F02%2F14%2Fa-webmasters-19-commandments%2F&btnG=Search
- ZenMasterJG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6How about this one:
Never, ever, ever, ever make your navigation in Flash! For the love of all thats holy, no more flash navigation!
(I'd say never use flash at all, full stop. But thats a personal thing.)
Flash navigation is, IMHO, the single worst thing you can do to destroy your web site's usability.
That, and it violates damn near everything in the W3C's WAI guidelines.
Which brings up another good one:
*READ* the WAI guidelines. - Ramzy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Goddamn it, how many hours does the site have to be down before it comes back up? I bookmarked this page at work 9 hours ago, and the damned website is still down.
- chapt0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Dugg down for: I am so tired of "10 things this, 4 things this, 89 things this..." ugh...
- ChrisGrrr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This is the first rant-list of its kind that I completely agree with. 100%.
It is geared toward commerce, not innovation - but I'm surprised to be in sync with every point... - tagawa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Notepad++ FTW
- roberto_deneero, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7-1 for no working site
-1 for lame rant
-1 for repetitive list just like 1000 others on the net
-1 for the hell of it - burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4At least use Notepad2... at most, emacs :)
- rscherf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4#20 Never post a website to digg when the URL doesn't work.
- bscene, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Check out the post he makes here on his other blog titled "High traffic and no website to be seen…."
http://oomny.com/2007/02/15/high-traffic-and-no-website-to-be-seen.html
"Then the visits must have spiked because my blog went DOWN! It’s not a great thing to have happen, especially when your blog is hosted on a a work server and it makes all the other hosting clients website’s go down too….Very bad."
Jose's note to self - Do as I say, not as I do
too funny!! - tagawa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Ah, the old 1994 reminiscences. Yes, that was a great year for HTML. Happy times.
- ColinCampbell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Also, Dude, webmaster is not the preferred nomenclature, web developer, please.
/biglebowski - sensibledriver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's nice to see a PA getting their feet wet. Welcome to the real world of UI, kid.
;) - LucianSolaris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3buried as lame for wordpress
- Hensworth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2ahaha this guy has no credibilty giving out tips to about how not to design a site.
- sirber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Not Found
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