Web Blunders:The Top 5 Biggest Mistakes on the Web

Pete LePageMicrosoft Corp.

The Web: A Giant Collaborative Melting Pot The web is full of “experts” How do we know what is right? It’s easy to copy code from the web Lots of good code out there Lots of not so good code out there Lots of bad code out there

#5 Unprofessional Site Design Lack of contrast Clashing colors Difficult navigation Doesn’t flow when reading or finding

info

#4 Lousy Content

Poorly written copy Lack of editing on copy No privacy policy on visitor

information

#3 Poorly Coded HTML/CSS/JavaScript Using inline styles Overlapping tags Apple’s QuickTime Detection Frames

#2 Inappropriate Use Of Rich Content Sites that contain no HTML Auto-playing music, videos, etc

#1 Not Being POSH*

Using elements and attributes for purely presentational purposes

Not validating mark up Extraneous use of DIVs for

formatting

*Plain Old Semantic HTML – see http://microformats.org/wiki/posh