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20Mrz2007

The Usual Mortal Sins

Date20.Mrz.2007 | 01:06
Josiah Cole has compiled a list of "19 Things NOT To Do When Building a Website" and published it on his blog. Pretty basic stuff, nothing special. Things that should be trivial but for some reason aren't and tend to be ignored. I guess these lists have to be written from time to time.

So here we go; my personal top 3 from Josiah's list:



  • DO NOT resize the user’s browser window, EVER

  • If your website does not work in Firefox, welcome to 2007 DUMSS.

  • If your website is ALL Flash, FIRE your web development company.


Also nice to keep in mind:

  • If you use music on your site make sure the user can stop it, and it BETTER NOT start on page load without the user requests it.

  • If you’re delivering video, it better not ask the user which bandwidth or version of video they’d like. Deliver your video in an embedded player in Flash.


Why is this so difficult?

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