Excellent list, everyone should read it

http://webdosanddonts.com/?s=%40impo...x=0&submit_y=0

I don't use Favicons.. I need to get onto that..

provide a good contact page
I hate it when I go to a contact page and they feed you with all these fields when sometimes you just want to make a quick enquiry.

Still, quite a few good things I just picked up here, as resourceful as always LadyNRed..

Thank you LadynRed for sharing! I started reading the information, but there is a lot there and I want to read everything, so I bookmarked the address for later. I am certainly open minded when it comes to new ideas and concepts. Thanks again!

Thanks! I've done a lot of readying and found out that less is more... lots of negative space (white area) with bold statements to get your point accross.

Also videos and pictures because the world as we know it is getting lazier by the minute!

I read some of the post, so far i found some interesting and new ideas regarding web designing.

I've just bookmarked it and be back later. Thanks for bringing this up LadynRed.

Thanks for sharing this with us LadynRed. I'm new to web design and want to make sure that I am up to date with the current trends. I really like how each tip gives you a link to learn more.

really a helpful thread LadynRed. Thank you for sharing, it will help alot of people to modernize their web...

I won't thank you for sharing your link since ordinarily the purpose of thanking someone is to drop a signature, besides no doubt it gave you great joy just to read it anyway, and to pass it on.

I like the tips - it'll help a coding-oriented developer like me figure out how to appear more mainstream.

One thing I don't like - it is a bit limited - it sees the world only through the eyes of a specific type of designer - some of us think the oop style of the css approach is counterproductive. And other tips are too generalized: "don't use frames" - I'll let you in on a secret... without frames I'd get 30 to 40% less affiliate income. I don't break any affiliate rules, but I do maintain a firm grip over the people I send to other companies!

Anyway, I have 2 tips to add to that list -

the first tip is vital: in my building because it is predominantly inhabited by white and black europeans and other non-israelis and yet is an israeli building it appears, or maybe just for other reasons, that they frequently mess up amenities and don't fix them very fast - water, internet, electricity, lifts, you name it.

So often I find myself on very slow connections suddenly - and many sites, even google, can fail to load up - a LOT of sites running analytics do fail too - it's a question of whether they are trying to transport a lot of data one way or another for an individual page.

MY pages, interestingly, almost never fail even when everyone else's pages (webmaster-talk is VERY bad - the number of high memory blobs on these pages is very high - and I was not able to see this site for 10 mins earlier, even though I was able to browse my own data-laden sites easily...) are failing to load up on my machine. (No it's not the cache, I have, for years, subscribed to a policy of absolute minimum load-time, absolute minimum extra crap on pages).

So the biggest tip is (for it will matter as the "crunch" eventually drives society to lower electricity, bandwidth, etc - potentially) don't overload your page with: (1) lengthy extras, including tonnes of css stuff, (2) lots of flash, (3) lots of images, (4) lots of snippets from other domains being shown on your page, (5) google arsalitics, (6) anything similar.



and tip 2...

Don't take ANY tip too seriously. Rules, yes. Tips no.


however I've bookmarked that list and will include every last item in my new book. cheers.

Wow. This is a wonderful resource LadynRed! Thanks a lot for sharing that awesome link!

Favicon was really a positive thing for the site. It also serves as a logo or branding...

Nice one LadyNRed - every newbie should read that site from start to end

Ya its very useful list. Thanks for sharing.