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Top ten mistakes in web design (updated)

Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Jakob Nielsen has updated his Top ten mistakes in web design document for 2007 an its well worth a read. Nielsen is quite often seen as too "hard line" and his ideas are often seen as too restrictive to work in practice but I think this list of ideas and suggestions is something that every web devel… read more

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Using text links for navigation

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
This thread at Web Master World relates to a post I did recently about using images on your web pages for what is essentially text. Its long been accepted from an [tag]accessibility[/tag] standpoint, that the use of html text in [tag]site navigation[/tag] (rather than gif images that contain graphi… read more

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Turning away search engines at the first opportunity

Monday, September 18th, 2006
Do you want to suffer in the Search Engine rankings? Not bothered that your competitors outrank you by a factor of 50? Do you want to keep that pesky Googlebot well and truly out of your site (after all it does eat an awful lot of unnecessary bandwidth)? Here's how: First you need a splash page. T… read more

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I want that font…

Monday, August 21st, 2006
Why using graphical fonts is a bad idea Firstly, sorry jacque, I'm using you as an example but yours is a typical request and I thought I'd blog it after our discussion on MSN yesterday. I quite often get requests for a corporate (or particular) font to be used for page/section headings in a web… read more

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