Just browsing around your blog and came across this post so I thought I’d mention one thing for your consideration. As much as I like and appreciate the work of Michael Heilemann and his contribution of Kubrick to the WordPress project, my new pet peeve is justified text. Why? This is the web! Things are so much easier to read with justification turned off.

Anyway, for a much better argument see this post on the much loved Antipixel blog. Jeremy says it best.

For wannabe web designers I recommend Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug. It’s an entertaining and informative book on the navigation, layout and presentation of a web site from a usability perspective. Most of it is common sense, but that frequently seems to be in short supply even on some big, well-known sites.

….Wow! – I’ve just described my old web site perfectly! …

On the Mac, using broadband, obviously the above doesn’t apply. So I guess it’s sites that aren’t easily navigated – you can’t find what you’re looking for, if there is a navigation menu it doesn’t have the thing you want, and the search function brings up 56 matches that have no relevance (the BBC news website is surprisingly guilty of the latter).

Oh – and websites with bad design. Too many graphics, annoying colours, too busy – gah!

And one last pet hate – sites that aren’t compatible with Macs. Well, they’ve lost a large percentage of potential customers already then, haven’t they? Fools.