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- MusedFable, on 10/26/2009, -0/+65Don't... make a stupid footer bar cover the bottom of the screen.
- dickmnixon, on 10/26/2009, -1/+48I thought the design and layout of the website was so bad and cluttered i didn't read it.
- knifesideleft, on 10/26/2009, -0/+30As a master web designer my general rule is to layer as much scrolling marquee's and gif images onto the page as possible. Then rounding the page off with a hit counter and embedded midi music to create mood. If you can't decide on what song to pick Chumbawamba will go good with just about anything. Also if you are new to HTML you can use Homestead's page editor and hosting services. Show your superiority over people who have to program pages manually by drawing thousands of green boxes all over your page creating intricate designs in less then 5 minutes! Follow my rules and you will soon need make your page counters at least 6 digits instead of 3!
- CrimsonBlur, on 10/26/2009, -0/+19As a general rule I have found that only ***** designers publish lists for other designers to follow. Have you ever noticed how most of these articles come from sites that are cluttered and look terrible? Case in point: this submission.
On top of that, the advise in these lists is almost always pointless. How about this for advice: if you are not a Web designer, do not try to make your own Website. That one sentence will eliminate the need for most of these "effective Web design" articles. - erhanaltay, on 10/26/2009, -0/+16At first I thought you were just trolling but when I clicked the link I knew I had to digg your comment...
How could anyone take advise about web design seriously from such a disgustingly themed site!
Narrow columns, stupid colors and is it just me or does scrolling look awkward? - akpanga, on 10/26/2009, -2/+16Yea, I also saw the same. He exactly did the opposite of what he had written. Funny enough
- techdever, on 10/26/2009, -0/+11yeah, wtf is the point of that footer? Hides the site's *****?
- skeptictank, on 10/26/2009, -0/+8These seem like no-brainers but I'm surprised how many designers ignore them.
- acdtrux, on 10/26/2009, -1/+9Oh the irony... yo *****, read through your copy before you publish it!
- 7aji, on 10/26/2009, -0/+8The design of their site isn't good. It has a scrolling ad at the bottom beside tons of other ads at the top which makes you need to scroll down at first to start reading the article.
- seantubridy, on 10/26/2009, -0/+8"Do yourself a favor and lay off the excessive advertisements."... says the website with about 20 ads on one page.
- bcsstories, on 10/26/2009, -1/+6Wish more websites stuck to these rules
- eanbowman, on 10/26/2009, -0/+5This blog seems to accept articles from designers from different sites/businesses. I don't think the author is responsible for the look and feel of the site.
If here were, I'd be worried. - digginamish, on 10/26/2009, -0/+5They also forgot:
"Don't use a blank footer that creates more scrolling for your audience"
Upon further review, it appears to be an ad for IE users, but is blank for me in FF. - mparker21311, on 10/26/2009, -0/+5Do as I say not as I do is their motto.
- istoner, on 10/26/2009, -0/+5Recursive Fail.
- jimmyn, on 10/26/2009, -1/+5My feelings exactly. One of the do's was seriously to make your site visually appealing. WTF? The post is title 20 Do's and Don'ts of effective web design--apparently the author could only think of 19 marginally good ones and just threw that one in for the nice round number.
- wassim2k, on 10/26/2009, -0/+4The list is actually 10 things; with the opposite of a Do presented as a new item of Don't.
- geopiscean, on 10/26/2009, -0/+4Hope to follow atleast 10 of these...
- NeoTechni, on 10/26/2009, -0/+3Don't do what Donny Dont does:
-DON'T: Multi-paged articles
-DON'T: Another top ## list
-DON'T: Tons of ads
-DON'T: Javascript photo gallery that makes it hard to save images
-DON'T: Limit your page to the center of the screen. Widescreens are quite common FFS.
-DO: Use Comic Sans wherever possible (ie: everywhere) - acdtrux, on 10/26/2009, -0/+3I have yet to click on a link in those footers... it seems they exist to make the site seem full of depth.
- MtheoryX, on 10/26/2009, -0/+3#21 DO: use AT LEAST 50% of your page width ads.
#22 DON'T: Use a fluid width for content. This could potentially decrease the ad-width ratio of #21.
*Edit: FTA "If your page loads and has 70% ads and only 30% content, odds are high that people will leave and never come back."
Right, so 50/50 is acceptable, maybe even 60/40, but FFS don't use 70/30!! - jkleinrichert, on 10/26/2009, -0/+3DON'T: State the obvious.
DON'T: Waste my time. - da233, on 10/26/2009, -0/+2Many designers have no brains.
- guytoronto, on 10/27/2009, -0/+2Often the designer wants this, but the BOSS has a different opinion.
- Kangaroux, on 10/26/2009, -0/+2The only half-useful piece of that article is the link to http://www.colourlovers.com/
Sometimes I get a brain cramp and thinking of a color scheme isn't easy. - jholden42, on 10/26/2009, -0/+2Yeah, I am absolutely not going to take web design advice from a site that looks that bad. If I have to scroll to get to even the START of the content, your site has a problem... quite aside from all the ads and the horrible floating footer bar.
- sippykup, on 10/27/2009, -0/+2#21 - Don't use characters that make your article's summary on digg include the word "�".
- inactive, on 10/26/2009, -0/+1You're not my real father, you can't tell me what to do!
- RobotR0b0t, on 10/31/2009, -0/+1Needs a lot of work. Start by getting rid of the unnecessary drop shadows. Try making everything more cohesive.
And get it out of that box! - Charlotte_Web, on 10/26/2009, -0/+1I can't digg the article because I agree with you, they really are no-brainers to anyone with some design skill.
The thing is, a lot of company web sites are built by the office tech guy because they want to save some money.
However, with the abundance of web templates out there, there's really no reason to have an ugly site anymore. - nicoladimaria, on 10/26/2009, -0/+1what about the mouse pointer ?
- emildorbell, on 10/27/2009, -0/+1Get rid of the table layout and replace it with divs.
- jholden42, on 10/26/2009, -0/+1Seconded. I closed the tab pretty quickly.
- jd75, on 10/27/2009, -0/+1really? i haven't seen an animated gif since 2002. but then, i avoid myspace like a drinking fountain in flu season.
i'm glad he put that useful tip in, though, as it clarified that the list was completely useless. pick nice colors? make it load fast? ugh. people without common sense will make stupid web pages with or without your list, mr. expert. mostly on myspace. - TaintBrush, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1FTA: "DONT: Place irrelevant ads across your page"
http://i.imgur.com/VCryF.jpg - digg-dugg, on 10/26/2009, -0/+1can no one recognize a good simpsons quote, from when homer and marge go to parenting classes?
- cp101, on 10/27/2009, -0/+1DON'T; do as I do, but do as I say
- karipatila, on 10/26/2009, -0/+1That's because they care more about driving traffic to their sites than people actually reading the "articles". The people who do read it all the way through tend to leave comments so useless you can't distinguish them from the spammers.
- fragmit, on 10/26/2009, -1/+1http://yfrog.com/7bdontsj
- 1sKaiser, on 10/26/2009, -0/+0Good article. However, there is one more thing that I would consider very important - screen resolution. Some designers tend to forget that what looks good on a 1440 resolution looks absolutely ridiculous on a 1024 resolution.
A good 24% of visitors still use 1024 resolution - which means that a general one-fourth of your traffic wouldn't see the optimized page you design. As for graphics, if you have a good compressor for your images, you can increase image rendering speeds by 60-70% while maintaining about 90% of the quality of the graphic.
It is true that there are a lot of websites that have moving text, monkeys crawling everywhere on the page holding a sign saying "Welcome To Our Website!", and menu schemes that is as old as the days of windows 95, but surprising it is that some still perform very well. - MarkoKolar, on 10/26/2009, -1/+1nice content. absolutely.
- greenkermit, on 10/28/2009, -1/+1www.barbieridesign.me
what do you think? - digg-dugg, on 10/26/2009, -4/+4...and put your garbage in a garbage can, people. I can't stress that enough. Don't just throw it out the window.
What a useless list. Might've well just said, "Do: make websites if you're not an idiot. Dont: make websites if you are an idiot." - inactive, on 10/26/2009, -6/+5I wish I could take a gigantic dump.
- ren1999, on 10/26/2009, -2/+1What should I do and not do on my website?
I've only tested this HTML 5 and CSS 3 on Windows Firefox 3.5. It seems most of the features don't work for Linux.
http://kira3696.tripod.com/ - screwkevin, on 10/26/2009, -1/+0"DONT: Make everything on your page an image"'
How can one get on Digg's front page without doing exactly that and calling it INFOGRAPHIC??? - akpanga, on 10/26/2009, -3/+1Holy writ!
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