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Since my first attempt in 1996, I have compiled many top-10 lists of the biggest mistakes in Web design. See links to all these lists at the bottom of this article. This article presents the highlights: the very worst mistakes of Web design.

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Plus it looks super cool. GM and Ford better step up their game, fast.

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Take a look on the net and you’ll see endless pages of AJAX Frameworks: libraries which promise to do all the trivial and dirty AJAX work for you, leaving you free to code without actually understanding how the application you’re writing really works. So lets pull back the smoke and mirrors and see what AJAX is and why it’s just a simple evolution

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How much greenhouse gas does one single cheeseburger emit into the atmosphere? According to this article, about 6.5 pounds per burger; considering that Americans eat an average of three burgers per week, it adds up to be the same carbon contribution as 75,000 to 15,000 SUVs each year — that’s a lot! Can you say Carbon McCredits?

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This web site has hundreds of links to web design tools sorted by category and popularity. The site stores your favorites so you can reference them later. The categories on the site are: color, css, fonts, html, icons, images, inspiration, tutorials, and widgets. You can even add your own links.

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It has been almost two years since I left the footstep of college, and the time since then has been blissfully wonderful.  With a mixture of black and white, I have made numerous ambiguously decisive choices.  A quick glance at the rear view mirror, I can reflect back on the fading roads behind, and realize all generosity and kindness I have received.  As some of my close friends and family know, January 2007 will be a new starting point for me.  I am miles and miles away from GSU, and with every step, I am determined to make progress.

Below is a snapshot of roadblocks and pitfalls some have made as Business Analyst.

• Misguided or unimaginative analysis, such as its alleged recommendation in 1983 to AT&T that cellular phones would be a niche market
• Lack of coordination among multiple engagement teams working with one client
• Lack of originality in coming up with ideas; restating the obvious with business jargon
• Groupthink, as its consultants strive under time pressure to converge on a unified set of findings and recommendations
• Hubris or arrogance toward executives, in particular underestimating the difficulty of implementing recommendations
• Emphasis on “current thinking” that may amount to little more than forcing the latest business theories on clients without taking a longer-term view
• Emphasis on shareholder value, often at the price of investment and long-term strategy. For example, this may have doomed the British railway company Railtrack, which collapsed after a series of accidents, allegedly after following McKinsey’s advice to reduce spending on infrastructure and return cash to shareholders instead
• Concern that it aims to become an expensive permanent presence with clients, rather than focusing on solving a clear set of problems, thereby functioning as a substitute for proper leadership and organization. This is an increasing concern in the public sector, where McKinsey has become involved with agencies such as the British National Health Service

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The near overnight success of companies such as YouTube, Facebook, Flickr and Digg has motivated a slew of us into believing that we too can create the next big thing on the Internet. But does your idea truly have the potential to attract millions of monthly unique visitors in less than two years time?

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Color theory may sound like a subject for the Art Department, not for developers. But we’ve all had the experience of choosing a color scheme using the property grid to select named colors and ending up with a really garish color scheme.

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Matt Cutts a google employee and head of the web Spam team at Google. Explains how Google handles Hacked Sites using a real example site that got hacked recently.

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