The documents in this file present sites that comment (sometimes very pointedly and not very kindly) about the finer points of website design and development. We remind you that although these comments may be helpful and illustrated through examples, they are made by critics and there is no single expert, and generally no single authoritative way to develop an effective website. The proper use of graphics and layout in the design of a page is an art. Is it visually arresting and pleasing? Does it deliver the benefit message intended? and Does it work in reaching the behavioral goals of the website?

• Web Pages That Suck. Vincent Flanders, Critic, Columnist.
  If you are a beginner, this site provides a different approach to learning HTML techniques: by looking at bad design.

• Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design. Jakob Nielsen, SunSoft Distinguished Engineer The Alert Box (formerly published by Sun Microsystems) presents a monthly discussion of Internet, HTML, and style issues. .

• Top Ten Ways To Tell If You Have A Sucky Home Page. Jeffrey M. Glover, Glover Communication There has to be a tongue in cheek list of web how to's, and this is it..

• Bad Style Page Tony Sanders, Technical Staff at Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
  A collection of 8 "DONT's" for HTML with good example source code

• Seven Deadly Web Sins. Fred Langa, Editorial Director of Windows Magazine Online. Windows Magazine editor "boils down" some of the most common and easiest to avoid Web problems.

• Suggestions for Web Pages. NASA
  "...there are certain conventions and courtesies that users expect to see and appreciate having on Web pages. This page lists some of these conventions as a sort of informal checklist to aid information providers just starting Web servers. NASA's Network Information Center (NIC) .

• Thoughts about the WWW. Thorsten Sommer.
  Thoughts about the WWW, its current developments and general issues for users and providers of WWW services. "Because the clients decide with every click which information they want to see or not, the WWW currently is the only real demand driven market in the world."

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Designer: Scott M. Smith, smsmith@byu.edu Last Update: February 1, 1997