From the article: Web Design Horror Stories
What is the worst mistake you ever made when building or maintaining a Web site? Chances are if you've made the mistake, other people have too. To submit anonymously, simply put in your alias of choice in the Guest name box. If you're logged in to About.com, simply click on the "If you're not [membername], click here" link and write your alias in the Guest box. What's the Worst Thing
Difficulty
- I am a programmer at heart but lack graphical flare. I had a relatively simple idea for a web page but ended up giving-up on because it is almost impossible to work out how to do rounded corners and margins on the sides of my page as seen on a few "web 2.0" pages. :\ *sigh*
- —Guest Jim
lose-lose situation
- My first client's site was simple to build, but he insisted on hosting it on his friend's server. He gave me what he said was the login information. I repeatedly tried to login to upload the site, but either the info was wrong or something was fishy about it. I even had a more experienced web developer try to get login with a different FTP client--no success. Repeated requests to the client to check his information, or let his friend upload files himself only got him mad, and I finally got a huffy email saying he'd taken the job to someone else. As it turned out, that someone else used my comps, and I never got paid. From then on, I always make sure I either set up the hosting account, or can get in before I hand over any work.
- —Guest Releaf
poor design
- I once designed mokascoffee.com and made it look like i created it in Microsoft Word using clipart, images with aliased curves and blurry (due to resizing) images
- —Guest bob
Colors
- One time, I was wirting a webpage and I put in the colors in the css. But I left off the final letter in my hex code. So when I thought I was putting up a gorgeous blue site ended up being baby-puke green. AAACK!
- —Guest doh
