Bob Browning's blog

Nothing.  And I can prove it.

But that doesn’t mean I don’t have an opinion about the main technical errors that print designers make when designing for the web.  These are all real and I have seen them repeatedly.

1. Font too small.  Sorry guys; at 75dpi these tiny letters are indecipherable.
2. Lack of colour contrast.   Light gray type on a slightly lighter grey background may look cool on your Mac, but on a clapped-out PC it is unreadable.
3. Forgetting that we need real content.  Design bearing in mind the real content.  A sample layout that look great with ‘welcome John Smith’ on it may break completely when we have to welcome William Fortescue Smithe Junior
4. Assuming everyone has a giant screen like them.  Don’t run anything essential (like the main menu) down the right hand side of the page.  A punter with a 800px wide netbook will not see it.  Menus to the left and top please.  Yes I know that every site is like that and it is boring.  Get over it.
5. Assuming we all have Mac fonts.  We don’t.  learn to love Arial.