WebspaceWorks Resources
A little web development humour
Laughter to make a serious point
- Why tables for layout is stupid
- Problems defined, solutions offered.
From the Seybold Seminars of 2003 (San Francisco).
- Web Pages That Suck
- A web design “House of Horrors” updated on a regular basis with fresh examples of things gone awry. Also worth looking at is “The Biggest Web Design Mistakes of 2004”, a two-part look at errors of design judgement, some of them years old, that are still being perpetrated today, by designers and for companies who really should know better.
- 404 Research Lab
- A tribute to the humble “File Not Found” error page. It doesn’t have to be so boring!
- Site Is Down
- Perhaps the ultimate 404 error page from Home Star Runner
- File not found: Go Away!
- Another unusual 404 page, from Look It’s Me
- The 404 page at the end of the universe
- Page Not Found errors explained by The Hitchhikers’ Guide to The Galaxy Online. Don’t Panic!
Parodying Web design
- BudUgly Design
- An evolution in bad design… but also surprising how much of this gets seen in real-world websites!
- Strongbad
- Web design advice from a professional… needs flash player!
Odds-n-Ends
- Google’s logo museum
- Google’s own archive of fun and frivolous logos used to mark holidays and special events, dating from 1999 to the present. Please note, as per Google’s own guidelines, these are for fun only and not to be used anywhere. Pity!
