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What's going on here?!

This is a blog dedicated to expressing the rage of web designers everywhere. It might be compatibility issues or a bad client experience. The author is a web designer by day and the 'Angry Web Designer' by night.

Angry on Twitter

Update on what AWD is up to. We're moving to Tumblr and along with that some new Angry blog's will be starting up. Stay tuned. 2010/01/26

Im Back. http://bit.ly/Yp1wo SEO is such a marketing wank. Not worth its representative words in gold. 2009/09/06

@freeitsdotnet YARRRRR!! 2009/07/17

See my posts on IE6 Must Die http://bit.ly/oM2KX and IE 8 http://bit.ly/6luAA Also check out the future with HTML 5 http://bit.ly/GpmTl 2009/07/17

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.

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1 Comment Tags: marketing, SEO, wank... September 6, 2009 9:45 pm

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?