http://blogs.msdn.com/b/petel/archive/2009/05/18/teched09-top-10-mistakes-made-by-web-developers.aspxI consider myself a developer more than a designer. In fact, I’m pretty bad at web design. I know what looks nice, and I know what doesn’t work well, but I’m not so good at creating kick butt designs. So, at TechEd last year, I presented “Top 10 Mistakesen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/petel/archive/2009/05/18/teched09-top-10-mistakes-made-by-web-developers.aspx#9629794Wed, 20 May 2009 00:50:13 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9629794Greg<p>#1 expecting things far in excess of the capability of a language, toolset, scripting language.</p> <p>#2 expecting a web GUI application to have the same interactiviity and WYSIWYG look and feel as a desktop application</p> <p>#3 dooming your web site to poor performance and high maintenance cost by using unproven new technology that has a 1.5 year lifetime</p> <p>#4 dooming your web site by using a library (third party or open source) for which you need &lt; 1% of its functionality. &nbsp;Or, in other terms, assuming that since you can get the code to an open source library, it is easy to modify/maintain that library to fit your needs in a reasonable amount of time. &nbsp;Finding and fixing a bug ina 100,000 line library you know nothing about is a non-trivial task.</p> <p>#5 relying on XML to handle more than 1mb of data in a single XML string</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9629794" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/petel/archive/2009/05/18/teched09-top-10-mistakes-made-by-web-developers.aspx#9626831Tue, 19 May 2009 07:02:24 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9626831Martin<p>usability engineering, usability engineering, usability engineering its all about creating a desired user experience. So easy to say so hard to do!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9626831" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/petel/archive/2009/05/18/teched09-top-10-mistakes-made-by-web-developers.aspx#9626821Tue, 19 May 2009 06:53:46 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9626821Jack<p>Let me see how many mistakes I have in these 10.</p> <p>LOL</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9626821" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/petel/archive/2009/05/18/teched09-top-10-mistakes-made-by-web-developers.aspx#9626586Tue, 19 May 2009 04:14:53 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9626586What's New<p>I consider myself a developer more than a designer. In fact, I’m pretty bad at web design. I know what</p> <img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9626586" width="1" height="1">