Five Web Design Worst Practices

Today, I wrote a post on the CasJam Media blog outlining some “worst practices” of web designers.

While I don’t claim to be perfect by any means, I can say I have come across my fair share of hacks in this industry and I’m baffled by the way some web designers approach their business.

Here’s an excerpt from the article:

When it comes to choosing a web designer for your project or business, everybody seeks talent and reliability. But these qualities can be hard to come by, especially when searching on job sites or online classifieds like craigslist. How can you be sure you won’t end up with a hack?

Go to the full article: Web Design Worst Practices

And here are the five worst practices (go to the full article to read full descriptions):

• Bedroom web hosting
• No IE6 support
• Website is not transferrable
• No CMS options
• Poor communication

That last one is a key point in my opinion.  Excellent communication is absolutely essential in professional web design.

Over to you

I’m interested to hear about other horror stories you have experienced with hack web designers.  Do share them with us in the comments.