The Cardinal Sins of Web Design

[RazoRmedia]

Originally posted by polymorphic
razor, Über (not as you put it "uber") is NOT a web term but GERMAN. You must be american. :P

No, I am from the UK, it is being used more and more because at flashforward2000, Brendan Dawes called himself a Uber(with two dots) designer. Oooooh, trend setter eh?

Can you all please call me a mange tout Interactive web monkey please?

[le_saut]

Originally posted by Jon Chapman
why load the same navigation buttons for evey page than have them scroll off the screen?

Most of the time you'll find that the images are cached by the browser. You can use an include, in PHP for instance, to hold the navbar. Then you don't have to worry about coding the navbar for every page (and making changes to 45 navbars).

Frames are a barrier to search engine indexing as well.

rgds

James

[le_saut]

As they say in the song, this is what "****s me to tears" :

• * frames
  * pop-ups that you can't resize. I've seen whole flash sites in 500x400 windows, somwhere on my screen.
  resizable is the code word here in window.open, people.
  * flash intros larger than the actual sites
  * storing page content in textareas.
  * Frontpage themes ---argggghhh.
  * the webpagesthatsuck.com site - now that really sucks.

I'm sure I'll think of more...

I still haven't worked out what 'practical deep fast rich content' in the F of Ed books means. I can understand everything else in their books but not that.

Someone overdosed on adjectives?


my thoughts

James

[iwpro]

instead of using php to set a server side include you could just build your menu in flash, have a cool menu navigation bar and have to only update it in one place as well with out using includes.

Ah yes.... The power of Flash - my answer to world peace, the cure for cancer, hunger, etc. FLASH!

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[Ed Mack]

PHP and CSS does me for all my needs (well, mostly). Using the two you can build a very customisable and easily updatable site very fast (I do realize the existence of other server side languages, but PHP is near standard now, and I far prefer it to ASP).

[catbert303]

Originally posted by Ed Mack
PHP and CSS does me for all my needs (well, mostly). Using the two you can build a very customisable and easily updatable site very fast (I do realize the existence of other server side languages, but PHP is near standard now, and I far prefer it to ASP).

Yep, ASP is the work of the devil