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- Error601, on 01/31/2008, -9/+1371. Flash navigation
2. Flash navigation
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etc. - DeskFlyer, on 01/31/2008, -3/+659) Failing to K.I.S.S.
- Dalogi, on 01/31/2008, -8/+54Great article. I love the "I'll just center everything" mistake that developers make. Classic!
- adooga, on 01/31/2008, -2/+35Tow words: Truck, rope.
- darkane, on 01/31/2008, -4/+31Needs (a lot) more parentheses. Articles just don't (and never, ever) have enough. Please (in the future) use more of them (all over the place) and then (start using them to surround entire sections of the current sentence. And even some of the) next one.
- 2000, on 01/31/2008, -2/+28Damn... I am guilty of most of these...
At least I am a bad designer and know it... - Jektal, on 01/31/2008, -1/+27I blame Tetris.
- KibibyteBrain, on 01/31/2008, -4/+29Or pretty much anything on the page that uses plugins that doesn't absolutely need to. 50 percent of web stuff can be done with just HTML+CSS, and you can up it to 99% if you throw in javascript. Unless you have multimedia/games/some weird web app(probably a bad sign anyway), no need for it. Oh, and Java itself can just die already.
- muniak, on 01/31/2008, -5/+26What about developer mistakes that designers make, I would rather read that then all the garble.
- dtele, on 01/31/2008, -3/+20Dont agree with the bit about fonts.... developers should always stick to the few default fonts supplied with ALL operating Systems... eg Arial, Helvetica, Courier (there may be one or two more) to ensure that everyone sees the page the way you intended.
- blazes816, on 01/31/2008, -1/+15Somebody |unbended| mine.
- pezholio, on 01/31/2008, -0/+13I think he was referring more to logos and stuff within graphics though. At least I hope he was!!
- KibibyteBrain, on 01/31/2008, -3/+14Sometimes bad web design can ironically be a sign of true hackerdom. Look at some leading CS professor web pages or better yet internal or more obscure research and development web pages and sites of major labs or even corporations(like MS research). The sites can get pretty "exported HTML from Word 97" bad pretty fast.
- eliburford, on 01/31/2008, -0/+11SEO is really about good content, good markup, and a lot of people linking to your articles because they're so damn good. Follow these rules if you can, and you'll win.
- EXreaction, on 01/31/2008, -1/+12One I always fail at, "We Can Fit More Information in That Space". I know I can always fit more in that space.
- inactive, on 01/31/2008, -1/+12you mean omegadrivers.net?
- geekchic, on 01/31/2008, -2/+13I am guessing that someone proposed a change to the Digg website and was voted down by the web designers ;)
- gnews, on 01/31/2008, -3/+139. Get ripped-off by SEO's
- crash331, on 01/31/2008, -3/+13But the slanted t's are sooooo much uglier in Arial!
/design elitist - Kanidia, on 01/31/2008, -1/+10Darn, I always use blue and white... I think those are the only two colours on my blog.
And somehow, I'm obsessed with Frutiger, Myriad Pro, and Helvetica Neue - tjbeyerl, on 01/31/2008, -1/+9Wouldn't it be great if you stopped making this exact same comment on everything Kevin submits?
- CODE2, on 01/31/2008, -1/+9A bit too aggresive in my mind..
- ThirdPrize, on 01/31/2008, -0/+8Cool. looks Web 2.0 without a single rounded corner.
- Meep3D, on 01/31/2008, -0/+8Nobody ever got fired for using Helvetica :)
- nova912, on 01/31/2008, -2/+9WTB Anti-Aliased text on PCs 5 years ago... =/
- manicleek, on 01/31/2008, -3/+10So your not a good developer then Ufia.
Use tables for tabular content, CSS for structure or get another hobby - mikehill33, on 01/31/2008, -1/+8The title of this Digg sums it up:
Developers should stick to development, and leave design to designers!
:) - rss2pdf, on 01/31/2008, -1/+8Biggest mistake: not simple enough.
- 1awesomeguy, on 08/19/2008, -3/+9I usually do not find these "Top Designing Tips" articles to be much useful but this is by far one of the best I've seen. Dugg.
- smackhero, on 01/31/2008, -0/+695% of the time helvetica IS the right font. there is a reason why it's so popular amongst designers.
- dehlz, on 01/31/2008, -0/+6Georgia rules.
- isayx3, on 01/31/2008, -0/+6The main "Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make" is web design.....Leave web design to designers.
- NinjaPirateDude, on 01/31/2008, -0/+6what are you talking about? it lets me play the internet!
- IEatHamburgers, on 01/31/2008, -1/+7A hot girl must've {been walking by} mine.
- thesledman, on 01/31/2008, -1/+6I think a lot of Diggers Digg up his posts simply because it's Kevin. I see it as more as kissing ass hoping he'll notice them, or a kudos to Kevin for creating such a great site. But honestly, it's his site, if he does get special pull what's the problem. It's not like he posts hundreds of links a day and the ones he does post seem pretty decent.
- rumdrunk, on 01/31/2008, -0/+5Being obsessed with helvetica neue actually makes you equal with 90% of the designers I've worked with. They all go on about how you need the right typography to convey the message, but then 95% of the time choose helvetica neue
- thailand1972, on 01/31/2008, -0/+5I disagree. Developer (coder) needs to know some design because code and design (aesthetics, layout) are integrated. Designers also need a rough knowledge of development so they can understand the ramifications their design will have on the code underneath. They're not mutually exclusive disciplines - they overlap.
- meechwings, on 01/31/2008, -0/+5I actually didn't notice the submitter was Kevin until you mentioned it.
- mcmlxxii, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4It doesn't make any difference what fantastic fonts you choose for your site if the computer viewing it doesn't have them installed, because it'll default to something else. Unless you embed it in an image of course.
- pezholio, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4You can use sIFR though, which is great for titles and pullquotes and doesn't break anything if the user doesn't have Flash or JavaScript enabled.
- DigiDave, on 01/31/2008, -3/+7Actually -- this is a good article. But I agree with your sentiment - I do think it's silly that Kevin Rose has a 100 percent front page ratio. It makes me feel like Dig is his little toy or sandbox. In a democracy everyone, even the president/king is subject to the rule of law.
- RecoDesign, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4There is a reply button underneath that persons comment.
- speedlab, on 01/31/2008, -2/+6It's best to just stick with what you're good at, period. I can say I'm not a designer, I don't say I know what looks good, but I can say when something is poorly designed (as far as interaction goes) or when the user experience is poor (two things some designers fail to see).
If you're a freelancing full time or just moonlight occasionally, get a network going on LinkedUp - it's best to know these 4 types of people: a producer, a writer, a designer and a programmer. - arizonagroove, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4I agree but arial is not supplied with all operating systems. It is however part of Core fonts for the Web (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_We ... so can be installed on any OS that supports TTF. You can of course specify the font family as 'helvetica arial sans-serif' in your CSS.
- everybodyruns, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4Dugg for not actually counting down.
- IIIKrazyKiDDIII, on 01/31/2008, -1/+5As a designer, many people that I work with don't understand how important the details are... every pixel counts.
- drakenlot, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4Data patterners, duh.
- serif69, on 01/31/2008, -1/+5I always specify "Arial Helvetica sans-serif" because Arial is designed to be a screen font, while Helvetica is designed for print. Helvetica always looks nicer in print, but Arial has better hinting and simpler forms that make it look far better than Helvetica on screen. It comes down to personal preference, I suppose.
- pezholio, on 01/31/2008, -2/+6He forgot to mention using tables for layout and using javascript for anything other than enhancement, something I see developers do every day...
- Audacitor, on 01/31/2008, -1/+4Don't forget marquee.
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