Comments on: link: 19 Things NOT To Do When Building a Website

By: Jon Jones

Jon Jones — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:09:52 +0000

Yeah, Myspace is just a category all its own of pure badness. heheh.

By: NateE

NateE — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:19:25 +0000

HAHA I was just looking for this link again. Yay fortuotous timing!

I actually agree with his tone; this is written with businesses in mind and sometimes people in business need to be slapped with a fish in order to realize “Hey! not doing this crap will increase our revenue!”

I adore #10 and is the main reason I never view my friends’ MySpace pages; love em to death… hate their music.

And I agree with Matt, I hate those damn double underlined links. On a funny note, last time I checked this site he didin’t have them.

By: Jon Jones

Jon Jones — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:14:55 +0000

haha, yeah, he does come off pretty harsh. But I like that sometimes. I did the same thing with my Your Portfolio Repels Jobs article. Sometimes, enough people doing things badly wears thin on one's nerves. (end of liability waiver ;) Yeah, I agree on those ads. Those *suck*.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:58:07 +0000

I agree with pretty much all of his points, though not in that tone of voice. :) (With the added caveat that rules are made to be broken.)

I’d like to propose rule # 20: if your site uses those double-underlined, mouseover, in-line text ads, remove them. (Or to put it in a tone of voice consistent with the article: delete your site, fire anyone you employ, and set yourself on fire.) They’re useless (see #18), and people only ever click on them by accident.