One of the things I like best about writing about Web Design and HTML is that everyone who does it is very opinionated. This list includes the most commented on posts on the About Web Design / HTML site this year. And they're all still open for comment, so feel free to add to them if you like.
With 68 comments, this is the most talked about post on the site right now. HTML is technically a markup language, not a programming language, but many people get very argumentative about it.
This post generated 63 comments, nearly as many as the first place winner - and a large majority of those comments were posted to tell me how stupid I am for using Network Solutions. It became very clear to me that all my opinions about service satisfaction and so on were nothing compared to the price difference. The reality is, however, that I won't be switching providers for at least 5 years ad I'm paid up on my domains for a while. But feel free to berate me some more if you'd like.
When I was a hiring manager, I looked for people who had used tools other than just WYSIWYG to build Web pages. I wanted people who could understand what Dreamweaver was doing "under the hood" and so do a lot of other people.
Many people felt that paying anything for Web hosting was too much. Personally, I don't want the ads that come with free sites like Geocities, but to each his own.
Challenge number 3 was fun for people to build, but not so fun to look at. Ugly Web sites are very easy to build. And choosing which one was the ugliest turned out to be difficult.
There were many opinions expressed about what might happen in the Web design industry in 2007.
21 people had opinions that couldn't be expressed just by the poll answers. Including one person who felt an hour would be too slow. I tend to agree with him, but I think I would have left that page long before an hour was up - especially as my browser has a time out at something like 5 minutes.
Even when I asked people "other than price" it seems that price is the only thing that matters to people when they pick out a domain registrar. But 19 people did take some time to comment.
A lot of people who got IE7 right after it released were troubled with crashes and problems. But it's not so bad anymore.
This question always surprises me with the vehemence of the answers. My opinion is that you should do what works best for your Web site and your company. My advice is to try to move towards CSS because it's more accessible. But whenever I get asked this question I'm accuesed of "preaching" or being a "standards cop". It's amazing.
