• If more people stopped and asked themselves "why am I making a web page?" I think maybe they'd think twice about it.
  • Is it just something to do because it's something everyone else is doing?
  • Are you trying to impress someone?
  • Really, do you think you're clever enough to do that?
  • Why?
  • Are you just hoping someone will see it and think it (and you) is so cool that they'll offer you a job on the spot?
  • Why would they want to do that?
• Why should a web page just be a collection of meaningless, if cool, graphics?
  • A lot of people won't be able to see them.
  • A lot of people won't want to bother waiting for them to load.
  • And if they do, what makes your page as good or better than someone else's? Will someone just think to themselves "Wow, this guy sure knows where to get his graphics"?
  • Additionally, elaborate presentations created with the use of a collage of images and rendered text deny access to those websites to the visually-impaired, who must often use special web browsers to view content.
  • A basic philosophy to go by would be: if your page is empty and boring on a text-based (Lynx) browser, it's not worth looking at in the first place.
• Ask yourself: Why do I have links on my page?
  • If they don't belong to your friends, why have you selected them?
  • Is it just because you don't know what else to put on your page?
  • Is the section of the page devoted to links bigger than any other section on your web page?
  • When you think about it, isn't that just a way of saying "Hey, look at all these pages that are better than mine."?
• Formatting your page ("optimizing" or "enhancing" it) for a specific browser is stupid.
  • The web, and the internet, are public domain. Sucking corporate cock by bowing to the company that makes your browser turns them into a private resource.
  • Not everyone's going to have your browser. If your cool new trick doesn't work for them, you've just wasted your entire effort.
  • Why are you "optimizing" your page in the first place?
  • If someone doesn't have your browser, who on earth is going to bother downloading it to look at your page later?
  • Is an "enhanced" page a punishment and a lesson to those who aren't bowing to your favourite software company? "Ha ha, you don't have my browser, so you can't see the cool new trick I learned!"

total images on site: 178
percentage of original images: 81%
percentage of stolen images: 19%
frames: 0
java: none
non-nested tables: everywhere
links to external sites: 20
animated .gifs: 0
browser-specific pages: 0
optimal resolution: --
standards-compliant stylesheet tags with support for older browsers: yes
made using: Mac OS X v. 10.2.6; Macromedia Dreamweaver; BBEdit
motivation for website: validation, attention, catharsis, blue skies, barthy burgers, and girls