Submitter’s comments: It sucks. Vincent Flanders’ comments: Ah, this site brings back those wonderful childhood memories of my mother yelling, “If you don’t shape up I’m going to send you to Culver Military Academy!” Culver, by the way, is a much better looking website than FU. The FU site reminds me a lot of this [...]

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FU Military Academy – An Example of Bad Web Design for May 10, 2012

This is a Flash website and as such is very interactive and pretty. But of course if you're on an iPad you get an obnoxious message telling you to get an Android tablet, because Flash doesn't work on the iPad (or iPhone or iPod). There are so many reasons why displaying that kind of message is a bad idea. But suggesting that someone who has already spent several hundred dollars on a tablet should go out and buy another tablet just to view your website is an extreme display of hubris. Keep in mind that the iPad has the dominant market share in the tablet market, so that message states that you don't want 50+% of tablet viewers to view your site.

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Web Design Inspiration - Luxor Mag originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 at 08:00:56.

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If you don’t, you should be. They let you add more cutting-edge features to your web pages and be sure that they will work even in browsers that don’t yet support the standards version of the property. Vendor prefixes are not a hack, they are a tool for browser makers and web designers to make sure that new features can be added without breaking a page in older or other browsers. Yes, you have to type a little more to use them. But stop being lazy and just do it. It’ll only hurt for a second.

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CSS Properties

• CSS3 Style Properties
• CSS Vendor Prefixes
• CSS Style Properties

Do You Use CSS Vendor Prefixes? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 08:00:41.

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Submitter’s comments: The home page is merely the beginning. Different backgrounds for each page? Check. Text that doesn’t fit inside the table cells? Check. Text as logo? Double check. Text as logo that doesn’t fit in the header, and ends up covering over most of the first set of links? Triple check. Eye-hurting backgrounds on [...]

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Thunder Island – An Example of Bad Web Design for May 8, 2012

I was working on my design inspiration article for this week (Wednesday), and I chose to promote a Flash website for a magazine that was very nice looking and fun to view on my iMac. But for the heck of it, I decided to see what fallback options they had chosen to use for iOS visitors. I didn't expect to see the site recreated in HTML5 (although I admit, I was hoping…). But I was surprised to see the above image as a new version of the tired and old browser wars. Only, as you can see, instead of being told to get a new browser (and there are apps that run Flash sites on iOS), you are told to get a new tablet device. Seriously? Do any of you really believe that someone will like a single website so much that they will say “What the heck! I'm going to go drop another couple hundred dollars on a new tablet, because this website is sooooooo cool!” and go out and buy another tablet? Personally, I wouldn't do it. But my brother tells me I'm an Apple zealot, so maybe I'm biased.

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Getting More Customers Rather Than Driving Them Away

• How to Drive Away Your Readers
• Web Design Mistakes
• Ecommerce Annoyances - Don't Annoy Your Customers Before You've Made the Sale

Don?t Drive Away Tablet Users in a New Browser War originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Monday, May 7th, 2012 at 08:00:38.

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Do these things....

These simple steps will help you keep your page loading smoothly for your customers and make it easy for them to read and use your Web site. I recommend these tips to my Web team, and I think you should know about them as well.

If you do nothing else with your page originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Friday, May 4th, 2012 at 08:00:28.

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Submitter’s comments: You don’t hear from me often, but when you do you can bet it’s because I’ve found something worthy of mention. To be honest, I find lots of sucky sites on the web, but I only send you the ones that truly, inarguably and inexcusably suck. My nomination for the Daily Sucker is [...]

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Stinger Penguns – An Example of Bad Web Design for May 4, 2012