Example of Great Design on the Web
37 Signals makes an online suite of business applications for project management, customer relationship management, and collaboration. The company is well known within the industry for employing sound design principles in their products. One of the design principles illustrated on this page is:
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37 Signals makes extensive use of CSS and Javascript to improve useability. They avoid using the preformatted tag, except for representing code.
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This violates the spirit of XHTML in combining content and formatting.
Example of Poor Design on the Web
This site is extremely busy a difficult to navigate. It uses frames and tables for formatting, rather than CSS. It is known as one of the most poorly designed sites on the web.