Please Note that this page is no longer being maintained or updated. When I first made it, oh, four years ago, the links were useful, the resources up to date, and the page as a whole widely used. As Web styles have changed, I've changed my Web style along with it -- but I haven't changed this page, It's still where it was back then. I leave this online now only as a testament to what the Web once was like...

Many Web pages these days consist largely of huge graphics, bad poetry, pointless lists, and little content; more matter with less art, as Gertrude told Polonius in a slightly different context. Here are some sites that discuss this.

Lists of What Not To Do

• Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design, by Sun Microsystems.
• Top Ten ways you know your homepage sucks.
• Top Ten ways to make a WWW flop.
• Make sure your pages have these four attributes.

Thoughts on Bad Web Pages

• Homepagitis. Do you have it?
• Some thoughts on being Netscape-enhanced.
• Big Companies, Bad Pages, one of the major problems with the recent commercialization of the Web.
• Clay Shirky on what is wrong with his "B1ff" page.
• Bad Style Page, a collection of don'ts for HTML.
• Netscape extensions commentary from Organic Online.
• Kabir's Comment on "Under Construction" signs.
• Meng's Editorial, warning that "colourful splashes may wow people once, but text soberly considered keeps its value forever."
• Misguided Gurus, offering another viewpoint on those who criticize Web pages.

• Netscape Hall of Shame, the epitome of style (often bad style!) without substance.
• Worst Web pages of Congress
• Daily Double Award
• Anthony's Most Annoying of the Web
• Mediocre Site of the Day
• Mirsky's Worst of the Web. Perhaps there are too many lists on the Web... :)
• Generic Homepage
• Web Vengeance: What to do to bad pages