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10 web trends that should die - article is from 2005 but could have been written today

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Re: 10 web trends that should die - article is from 2005 but could have been written today

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Seeing at these are still "problems" after three years mean that a lot of people are doing them successfully.

or not reading the signs correctly.

  In Web design
  here is a thing
  to keep in mind
  don't make things
  hard to find
  Burma-Shave

Re: 10 web trends that should die - article is from 2005 but could have been written today

#12

Some of these really sound nitpicky. The "Read More" links shorten a page so users can browse quickly through articles and see which ones they'd actually like to read. Sure, some sites don't need it, but its ok on other sites. Now, the splitting into multiple pages like NYT or Tom's Hardware, yeah thats annoying as hell. If fonts are too small, your browser has a enlarge text function. Generally 8pt is small but OK a…

When I read come across links I open them in another tab, by the time I come around to read them, they have loaded long ago or they will not load at all.
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