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Learning About Good Web Design (By Learning What Not To Do)


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Some of those are horrible i agree, they are an eye sore to look at, but i thought the Sony website was fairly good, i think some of those comments are a little unfair, and those sites were hardly voted on by others.

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This is also true for ebay, actually if you compare it to the Sony website its worse, i am always wondering if ebay are actually going to improve their look. I know enough to know that its not about the look that makes a business work, the look you could say is just the cream of the cake. That is probably a good reason why some websites fail because they focus too much on this look but forget about the overall functionality and what the users want.

 

I would say for CSS and the User Interface, that a full time job for someone to get right, you certainly have to have the time to play around with it that us coders do not.

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Yes, the whole UX thing is an art and a skill, and it takes a lot of time.

I ultimately think that the content of the site is the most important part, but a nice-looking and easy-to-use site never hurts either.

I can think of so many sites that I use on a daily basis where I think, "I wish this site looked better/was easier to use, but it's so useful, I will continue to use it every day regardless."

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I took a look at a few of those sites as well. That massage site or whatever was absolutely hideous. Sony I didn't think was too bad. I felt because it only showed 1 item, the description text could be a bit bigger, but for multiple items on a page, the text would seem fine. Just my 2 cents, as i'm learning.

 

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Yeah, I agree that the massage site was quite possibly the worst of the worst on that site.

I laughed for quite a while when I saw that site.

One of the quotes on the site that made me laugh for a while was, "Someone actually took the time to look at each page on this site, and say, 'Yeah, this is exactly what I want! Great!'"

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