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Ted lives in Durham, New Hampshire, USA, with his wife Margaret, children Jamie, Amelia, Anastasia, and dog Tyler. He consults and gives keynotes on Technology, Security, and Business. He loves flyfishing, ham radio, and great food and wine.

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The Biggest Web Design Mistakes

I found a great article called The Biggest Web Design Mistakes in 2004. Most of these mistakes will persist throughout 2005 and well beyond. A very amusing and informative article from Web Sites That Suck, which incidentally doesn’t suck.

As far as I can tell, I only come close to violating one rule on my website, “Believing people care about you and your web site.”

As a small consulting company often competing with the behemoths, I need a professional looking website. A potential client usually forms an opinion even before the website finishes loading. Most potential clients don't care unless the website is unprofessional. An unprofessional website doesn't let you even enter the game (as a side note, "unprofessional" and "suck" are not the same!)

Here’s a contest: look at Demopoulos Associates, comment on what sucks and preferably how to fix it, and you may win a great prize – errr, will you settle for some good will? :) Or maybe one of my soon to be announced videos from WatchIT??

In the immortal words of my friend Joe, “Ted, your website doesn’t suck real bigtime anymore.” Prove Joe wrong and help me improve my website!

Comments on "The Biggest Web Design Mistakes"

 

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (Friday, February 04, 2005 2:19:00 PM) : 

Ted, your website looks good although I would emphasize your articles and newsletter more. That's what people will be interested in, together with your blog.

Web sites that suck is awesome! It takes your "Worst Practices" approach you've written up in Articles and applies it to Web Site design.

Zeke Paranthoux

 

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (Friday, February 04, 2005 11:55:00 PM) : 

Your website is interesting enough, Ted, but I have to say the one thing that irritates me is that I find your font frightening small. I have a 17-inch monitor, great eyesight, and am still squinting.

Cheers :-)

Dave | Broshspotting

 

Blogger Ted Demopoulos said ... (Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:52:00 PM) : 

Dave,
Font enlarged. And I may enlarge it even more.
Thanks for the feedback!

Zeke, I'm reworking to "feature" the articles more. Thanks.

 

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