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Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002

Posted by Hemos on from the how-many-did-you-have dept.

yoey writes "Another famous Nielsen year-end wrapup: "Every year brings new mistakes. In 2002, several of the worst mistakes in Web design related to poor email integration. The number one mistake, however, was lack of pricing information, followed by overly literal search engines.""

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  1. You know what I like? by ZoneGray · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know what's a nice usability feature? A server that can handle the load. You click on the link, the page loads. Nielsen should get one of them.

  2. And the #1 mistake of all times is ... by oblom · · Score: 5, Funny

    Forgetting to prepare server for /. effect

  3. Web-Design Mistakes? That's easy... by Draigon · · Score: 4, Funny

    One word: Flash.
    Two words: Flash Intro

    Yeah sure, it can be done right, but the other 99.9% of the time I hate the world.

    --
    -Rabbit
  4. Re:for those who dont wanna wait on the page to lo by Spoons · · Score: 5, Funny

    For the love of god man! Learn to use the
    tag...

  5. Re:They missed websites that are just unnavigable by archeopterix · · Score: 5, Funny

    You have no spirit of adventure. Suppose that I hit a toaster manufacturer page looking for some technical data on a toaster. It is a very thrilling experience to click the "products" link and have to choose between "wooden products", "red&yellowish products", "other products", "products other than all of the above" and "guess where this link will take you". The products->toasters->specific model path is just boring when compared to that.

  6. /. almost fails the Number 9 by burgburgburg · · Score: 5, Funny

    The URL for this article has 70 characters, which is less then the 75 mentioned in mistake number 9. Of course, the post comment page is 109 characters, so I won't be giving it out to anyone over the phone very soon.

  7. Re:Web Standards? by principio · · Score: 4, Funny

    I could not agree more. Although I have always found it more amusing when companies that sell products for the Macintosh have web sites that cannot be viewed from a Mac. Like it would have been that hard to test.

  8. Bigger Mistake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not letting people post their extremely witty comments anonymously so they can not look like an ass with their fake name attached to it.