I have really had it with people who don’t respect my skills as a web developer. I have been creating websites since 1995, so I think I have a little bit of ability at my craft.

In the past few months I have run across two people who just don’t get it about good website design. They both have their own sites which are horrendous and which they think are wonderful. One has to wonder if they have ever really looked at a website.

The basics of a good site to me are: easy to follow navigation, tasteful graphics and colour schemes, and text that explains about the site in the first 15 seconds or so. I tend to be a minimalist (as in this blog) but I also have sites which are loaded with graphics but not overloaded with crap.

It really makes me wonder how some people see the world.