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#21: Floating navbars are an abomination and make your site incredibly frustrating to read on a mobile device -- especially in landscape mode. At least put an X button on that thing.


They are still annoying even on a 27" iMac. ARGH! Don't make your site so non-standard in a bad, pointless way.

Your content is or should be the most important part. The rest of your blog should be subservient to the content.


#21(b) X buttons will not save a floating navbar with a "digital clock font."


Fun fact: the technical term is "seven-segment display character representations."


Even when there are clearly more than seven segments?


You're right, this one has nine, I didn't look very closely. I guess you could still call them SSD-like...


The Subscribe by Email floater is what drove me batty, on a laptop. Stuff floating to the left not apparently docked to anything should move when I scroll!

Edit: it's a good list, though. Content > presentation, when it comes to actual reading material.


Also, if you're going to make a gimmicky website like that, at least have the decency to have something happen when I click on the door or the fan or whatever.


What door / fan?


#22 Write a responsive design website


#22 B: Use skeleton (getskeleton.com). It will save you time. This will give you more time for 1-20.


This speaks to me.

Sent from my iPhone. (Note: really android but iPhone for dramatic effect)




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