It is NEVER okay to italicize capitals!

As an introduction to the subject of website design, Williams and Tollett’s “Non-Designer Web Book” offered some excellent advice.

I really liked how they stressed that simplicity in design can be elegant—that is to say that uniformity is good. Moreover, I have to admit that even if the content of a page was written by a professional, if the alignments are all different or if the borders on a table are turned on—I would hesitate to consider it a valid source. Bad design truly makes the page seem less reliable. Some aspects of amateur web design seem obvious. While reading this, I found myself inwardly screaming, “Omigod! Yes, I hate that, too!”

Moreover, there are certain things that I would not have thought of—such as how it is in poor form to set preferential settings for a site. I found that very interesting.

(Also, the checklist at the end of Chapter 8 was especially helpful.)