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(These buttons won't work if you don't have Javascript enabled. Considering what they do -- you're probably lucky if they don't work!)
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Stop the worst of the wretched excess
These bad examples include ways to display information that make visitors' eyeballs fall out and bounce across their computer screens. Bells and whistles are fun, but it's important not to overuse them.
Web Pages That Suck displays other bad examples, but I honestly think this page can stand up to anything included there.
I can't even read the text in the next two samples. If you can't read it either, select it and it should become readable.
Bad Idea Color Combination #1: Too Cool For Words
Please don't ask me to write a page with blue text on a black background. I know it's currently fashionable and cool, but I will whimper continuously. Neither the whimpering webspinner nor the final page will be a pretty sight.
If you can even read this section, you have much better eyesight than I do, or you're running your browser with your own default colors overriding mine.
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Bad Idea Color Combination #2: Pastel Soporific
Combining background colors and font colors that are too close together isn't the world's best idea, either.
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Bad Idea Color Combination #3: Zebra Camouflage
You'd probably think that white on black would be OK, and it's true that it's readable on screen, or anyway more readable than blue on black or tan on beige. As it turns out, however, it's rather difficult to print: A factor to keep in mind.
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Bad Idea Color Combination #4: His Eyes Fell onto the Screen
Some color combinations just don't work very well.
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Update Tuesday August 07 2001
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