Re: [WSG] Web pages needed for testing

[Designer]

Tom Worthington wrote: Can anyone suggest some poorly designed web pages for web design students to take apart? Preferably these would be from public institutions. The students at are learning web page design <http://www.tomw.net.au/2005/wd/>. So I need some badly designed web pages for them to run accessibility tests on.  I don't want to pick on web pages from individuals, or those from small companies (unless someone wants to volunteer their own). But a government or large company is fair game. For testing we are using "TAW" from the Centre for the Development of Information and Communication Technologies in Asturias <http://www.tawdis.net/taw3/cms/en>. Previously I used Australian Government web pages as examples of bad design, but these seem to have had the obvious faults fixed (perhaps by my ex-students?). I ran a sample of 250 pages in TAW and only got a couple of errors. The next step is for the students to reformat one on pages to display on a mobile phone. For that I will probably use one on Bird Flu, as per my talk next month for the WSG <http://www.tomw.net.au/2005/wd/sahana3.shtml>. Tom Worthington FACS HLM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 0419 496150 Director, Tomw Communications Pty Ltd            ABN: 17 088 714 309 PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617                http://www.tomw.net.au/ Director, ACS Communications Tech Board   http://www.acs.org.au/ctb/ Visiting Fellow, ANU      Blog: http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/atom.xml  ****************************************************** The discussion list for  http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** I don't know what you have in mind here, unless it's related to coding - semantics, correct structure, etc.  Certainly I think it would be wrong to exemplify on the basis of design itself - colours etc, as this is purely a matter of opinion. (accessibility apart, of course).  Some folk like clutter, some like empty, some like garish, some like subtle - it goes on and on.  It's very important to distinguish between bad coding (which we can discuss) and bad design (which is often purely a matter of taste).  (You have to avoid the fanatics jumping in with their favourite hobby-horse!) I dare say you already had this approach in mind, but it's worth putting my 2p's worth in. -- Best Regards, Bob McClelland Cornwall (UK) www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************