10 things I hate about your site

Another 10 things first–looking back to a site previously reviewed. Where are they now? It seems only fitting that the first site every reviewed here, is the first site to re-visit.

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This week’s resource is a cool little Dreamweaver plug-in that quickly and easily lets you create the newest web craze: the accordion effect. I came across this plug-in while pulling my hair out trying to modify open source AJAX code for this clever effect. This new design style is being tested on my old workhorse, Web-Betty.com. A note of caution…this redesign is still underway and buggy in IE 6. NOT the accordion effect, but the refusal of IE 6 to play nicely with .png transparency! (Visit Web-Betty on IE 6 at your own risk.)

From Trio Solutions:

This is a handy tool if you don’t want all sections of your webpage to be visible at the same time, for example, if you have a long page. Gives your page a professional, elaborated look.

While the main purpose of this blog is to spout my opinion, I truly do want it to be a resource for people who endeavor to make their sites and blogs better—better design, better usability, better content, better whatever. To that end, I’m going to start featuring a resource, on a weekly basis (ok, hopefully on a weekly basis). There will be no rhyme or reason as to what I decide to feature on any given week. Whatever suits my fancy; whatever mood I’m in; whatever I’m working on. These will all be deciding factors. So, without further ado, this week’s resource is

From TechRepublic:

“Many novice Web developers use CSS positioning and layout directives without a sound understanding of how they really work. A brief introduction to the box model explains what it is and how you can use it to make better decisions about positioning your HTML elements on a Web page.“