lpetrich
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Better Off Dead: 10 Outdated Web Design Trends We’re Happy to Forget originally at Better Off Dead: 10 Outdated Web Design Trends We’re Happy to Forget - HIPB2B
1. Buttons as Images. Making fancy visual effects for buttons and other visual elements has long required making image files with those effects created with image editors like Adobe Photoshop. But with CSS3, one can create many of them with CSS code.
I remember creating some buttons for some themes with an image editor for vBulletin 3, and I had to create a separate button for each bit of text. But one can now avoid having to do that in many cases.
2. IFrames. For marking out areas in a page to load another page into.
3. Scrolling Text / Marquee. Did anyone ever like that?
4. Hit Counters. How many times was a page viewed?
5. Flash. Widely used for a long time to make animations and games. But it has lots of problems, and HTML5 now makes it unnecessary. Not surprisingly, Flash support is gradually being phased out.
6. Table-based layouts. The "div" tag now does all of that, and much better in many cases.
7. Outdated, overused fonts. Like Papyrus, Comic Sans, and Times New Roman.
8. Outdated style elements. Bevel, emboss, drop shadows, glossy buttons, and gradients on just about everything.
9. Clip art.
10. Under-construction sites.
With these (dis)honorable mentions.
11. Animated cursors.
12. Fancy page dividers and separators.
13. Guestbooks for your site.
1. Buttons as Images. Making fancy visual effects for buttons and other visual elements has long required making image files with those effects created with image editors like Adobe Photoshop. But with CSS3, one can create many of them with CSS code.
I remember creating some buttons for some themes with an image editor for vBulletin 3, and I had to create a separate button for each bit of text. But one can now avoid having to do that in many cases.
2. IFrames. For marking out areas in a page to load another page into.
3. Scrolling Text / Marquee. Did anyone ever like that?
4. Hit Counters. How many times was a page viewed?
5. Flash. Widely used for a long time to make animations and games. But it has lots of problems, and HTML5 now makes it unnecessary. Not surprisingly, Flash support is gradually being phased out.
6. Table-based layouts. The "div" tag now does all of that, and much better in many cases.
7. Outdated, overused fonts. Like Papyrus, Comic Sans, and Times New Roman.
8. Outdated style elements. Bevel, emboss, drop shadows, glossy buttons, and gradients on just about everything.
9. Clip art.
10. Under-construction sites.
With these (dis)honorable mentions.
11. Animated cursors.
12. Fancy page dividers and separators.
13. Guestbooks for your site.
