TO BE UPDATED

In the world of personal website design, there are n00bs. These are the mistakes I see in daily browsing of personal websites.

• site
  • "hiatus" and/or "open hiatus"
  • intro pages...
  • free-server labels
  • excessive ads
  • "This site is best viewed in IE."
• body
  • whitespace abuse
    • lack of padding
    • lack of margins
  • mis-aligned content in Firefox/Chrome
  • content resolution greater than 1024x768
  • scrollbar abuse
    • iFrames in Div areas
    • scrolling within divs
• format
  • CuteNews
  • Blogspot
  • Webs
  • Piczo
• content
  • "coming soon"
  • .JPG & .JPEG images
  • bad quality graphics/resources
  • page numbers as titles
  • image previews for free layouts
  • no visitor content
• design
  • lack of color scheme
  • hard edged repeating backgrounds
  • .JPG & .JPEG images
  • myspace poop
    • glitter/blinking backgrounds
    • glitter/blinking titles or headers
  • widgets
  • automated music
  • serif x sans-serif
  • different layouts for every page
  • dotted/dashed borders or separaters
• css
  • non-creative, boring css
  • non-fixed background
  • image links with [blue/dotted/any] borders
  • links/hovers that distort surrounding space
  • horrid typography
    • serif & sans-serif mixed and mingled
    • Times New Roman used incorrectly
    • Comic Sans used [at all]

Sure, these are just my pet peeves, but I'm sure most web designers would agree with me on most of these things.

Alas, I do not discriminate against newborn designers; Number 1: becuase it's the personal web realm, and Number 2: these young birds have yet to take flight in the industry.