for html class I'm supposed to research professional webdesigner tips for webpages
so I thought I could just ask you guys, cause lots of you are nerds for a living.
( Funtastic Pony Magic, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 12:10, archived)

use lots of comic sans
everone loves it
( Randomgazz, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 12:11, archived)

heh
that made me giggle
( Funtastic Pony Magic, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 12:11, archived)

don't test 220V power supplies with your tongue
(this tip may not be relevant ... but it's a damn good tip)
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 12:12, archived)

Also do not touch live plugs without backs
it hurts
( Randomgazz, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 12:14, archived)

only the following two sites actually qualify me as a "professional" web designer,
www.dojy.co.uk
www.synmusic.net

but i wouldn't really recommend them as examples of good professional code
( sex and dougs and rock n roll, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 12:13, archived)

Ooh, sorry about this
but that reminded me of another pet hate of mine: "Click to Enter" pages. I already clicked, dammit!
( Newington, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 13:26, archived)

er
and 'noframes'
or, in fact, 'frames'

...

and tables.
(pseudosocrates, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 13:48, archived)

What coding practices are considered 'good'
are always changing.
Things like cookies, frames, CSS, are often the greatest thing on the net one week and utterly horrid and deprecated the next. I remember about four years ago someone saying cookies were going to be outlawed in the US. There's no way you can keep up with what's the cool tool of the week. Just make things that (a) look nice, and (b) work. (Shrug.)

But while I'm here, a personal hate of mine is fixed-by-pixel font sizes, which CSS sites tend to result in, where you can't enlarge the text, and it's often too tiny to be readable.

Mind you I'm a web programmer, Jim, not a web designer.
( Newington, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 12:19, archived)

ARSEBADGERS.
That just prompted me to check one of my sites to make sure you can resize the text. You can, but if you expand it more than about 300% everything breaks out of its boxes.

*frantically edits CSS*
( supermoore: HUNG, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 12:52, archived)

No one will ever make a website
that looks good like they want no matter what browser is being used to look at it, at whatever font size, etc. You just have to accept that people with their settings near enough to your own will see roughly what you see.

/easy for me to say, my pay doesn't depend on front-end work
( Newington, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 13:24, archived)

web designing tips:
don't make pages for dirty scumbags who wont pay up

next
( sprinkles ITS AN ISLAND, morron, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 12:46, archived)

go here:
www.webpagesthatsuck.com

and don't be like them.
( newg rum n coke, Fri 10 Sep 2004, 13:57, archived)