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According to Jeffrey Zeldman:

Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.

I think this is by far the best and the most concise definition of web design you can find online.

To see what is not web design, read Zeldman’s article on Understanding Web Design in the new issue of A List Apart.

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Time magazine’s “The Best Inventions Of The Year” has some some of the best creative products and services of this year. There many cool inventions that are listed on the site, such as foldable and stackable cars, a battery that runs on sugar and much more…….

Of course, The Invention of the Year is the iPhone. I couldn’t agree more.

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Computerworld magazine highlights 10 biggest Web annoyances, which is right on target, except they forgot to include Pop-ads that keep coming up on their site as well other millions of sites on the web. So here is their list of top 10 annoyances:

1. Dubious privacy policies
2. Difficult online forms
3. Overcommercialization of the Web
4. Need for standards
5. Trolls in forums
6. Buying event tickets
7. Web 2.0 help doesn’t help
8. The expense of e-books
9. Disappointing Web video
10. Boring virtual worlds

You can read the full article on their web site.

Reading this article made me come up with my own top 10 web annoyances, here they are:

1. Blog Spammers
2. Endless pop-up ads on popular web sites
3. Flash ads that automatically expand over content areas
4. Flash intros on sites without ’skip intro’ options
5. Autoloading music and avatars on sites
6. Overuse of AJAX without purpose and function
7. Usage of term Web 2.0 for simple Javascript effects
8. Reset buttons on Web Forms
9. Animated banner ads
10. Snap Preview screens for all links on a web page

Share your web annoyances by commenting below.

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