What Makes a Good Web Design?

Grand Master Math asks: "I'm currently redesigning my website and I have checked out tons of various web sites, gone from link to link, etc...to find the best web design techniques, layouts, and features. Wow Web Designs proved to be a pretty useful site, as it showcased virtually 'the best of the web' in design and creativity. I was wondering what the Slashdot community has to say about web design and what the best web design should implement and address. From browser compatibility, to simplicity and complexity, and customization to user interaction, what should a perfect web design incorporate?"

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Re:K.I.S.S.

[Com2Kid]

"If you want a new window learn to right-click (in Windows) or middle-click (in Linux) or cmd-click (or whatever it is on Mac). But constantly opening new windows is lame! Why the fook do you think there's a back button on your browser? To look pretty?"

Actualy shift left click in windows is MUCH faster.

Aaaanyways.

Because I typicaly get 10-15 pages deep into the web and I want to. . . .

Oh damnit here let me try a made up example.

If an article I am reading links to three other articles, and each of those three articles links to three more articles, I would never, I repeat, never get done reading a single article.

Which is a Bad Thing. Duh.

Now if I open something up in a NEW window, I can delay reading it until after I am finished with the current article that I am reading.

Thus, I actualy get to compleatly read some articles.

If I just relied on my back button, I would have to turn off my computer before I ever got finished reading a single article.

Thus, the reason that I tend to have at least five windows open at once, though I have been known to go well above the 20 or so window mark at times. :) (I just a few minutes ago had ~12 or so browser windows open, as I was opening articles from a large list and then going through and reading them one by one.)