Angry Web Designer

The News

AWD is not dead!

Hey. Just a quick post to let everyone know that there will be some posts coming up soon and that the site will get a light refresh.
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The Bad

SEO is a marketing wank

Every time I see SEO its always about “Let me make you site #1 on Google” or “Maximise your site’s potential”. All of that and the word SEO is just a big marketing wank to try and sell a service that should be free/provided from the web designer/developer.

Whenever a web designer designs a site they should always be aware of SEO and how to maximize the sites “trollage” by search engines. More-so, whenever copy is made for the web it should always be written in the best way to get the most Google juice. But even that is not necessary any more.

The Bad

The Ugliest Popular websites

Being ugly doesn’t mean your not popular, at least when referring to websites. I have comprised a list of ugly yet popular websites on the net. Whilst looking at these sites see if you can see where they went wrong, then you can avoid the same mistakes. Just a note, I hate the phrase Web 2.0 which I will explain later but I have had to use it because it describes what I mean better.

The Bad

The slow death of IE6

With its 8th birthday coming up on the 27th of August its time to reflect on a very painful and long lived life of Internet Explorer 6.

Released on the 27th of August in 2001, IE 6 was the new browser to be included with Windows XP. IE 6 was an improvement to its IE 5 sibling and at its time, was ok for standards and compliance with CSS and HTML. In the next few years there was plans for the new HTML 5 and CSS 3 spec and other browsers, such as Firefox and Safari, started to include these new specs. IE 6 over time has become more and more behind the times and now is one of our biggest issues in the web design industry.

The Rants

Lists are for bulletpoints not content lists

Why the hell is it that some people will use UL lists for everything?!

I went to a site recently and discovered, through a bit of source peaking to find out how they implemented something, that they had used UL and LI elements for almost everything. They had an activity feed style layout and it was comprised of a UL list. The LI elements on this particular page also had DIV tags in them to store the content, complex stuff including avatar with message and so on. Why would you ever use UL and LI’s for a complex list of content?