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The Art of Web Page Design:
- The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.

Let us evaluate a set of pages to see if we can come to a consensus on what factors make a page Good or Bad or Ugly. In addition to cataloging features rate the sites 1-10 with 10 being best. Of course you distance learners will need to discuss this exercise via a conference.

1. Clydesdales
2. Peter Rabbit
3. ABC
4. NBC
5. CBS
6. DHTML GURU
7. Shenandoha
8. Save The Planet
9. John Hopkins University
10. eon magazine
11. World Wide Web Consortium
12. Stamps
13. Bloomberg
14. Scout Report
15. Art-Smart
16. BoogieBlocks

Other Opinions:

1. Jakob Nielsen
2. Confessions of an HTML Terrorist

An exercise for students: Select a site, not one on this list however, that you don't like and explain why. Send your comment to the mailing list.

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