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  • Design View / Andy Rutledge - Killing Some Bad Layout Conventions

    From the page: "As good design further penetrates the Web, once highly-regarded conventions fall into disfavor and are replaced by more effective ones. Yet some flawed conventions persist. In fact, they persist on some pretty high-profile websites; to their detriment."

    Reviewed by daamsie Dec 10 2007, 05:23pm ( 19 reviews ) • andyrutledge.com

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  • Rated by lensmaster on Nov 19 2008, 7:39pm

    kinda like 3 columns

  • Rated by Vpapu on Feb 02 2008, 11:50am

    From the page: "Killing Some Bad Layout Conventions"

  • Rated by WalkOnMyPath on Jan 10 2008, 9:08pm

    I'm not an artiste by any stretch of the imagination, but this article makes sense both emotionally and logically. Nicely done.

  • Rated by mehdi on Jan 06 2008, 7:16pm

    maybe 3 columns are bad ... maybe not

  • Rated by daok on Jan 04 2008, 9:57am

    Interesting article but the website itself is bad design........

  • Rated by ArttuR on Dec 28 2007, 8:07pm

    Andy Rutledge criticises some established layout design practices and proposes better alternatives. Interesting.

  • Reviewed by playclever on Dec 20 2007, 3:40am

    It seems to me that the basic concept here is sound. It's all about grouping similar information, which is always a good design point. The extra assertion here is that similar content should be arranged horizontally, which also makes sense because that's the shape of our monitors. The Apple Store is rightly criticised, because similar information (e.g. iPods / iPod accessories) is separated into different columns. I'm not so convinced by the sites held up as examples of good design, but I get the point here.

  • Rated by blauente on Dec 17 2007, 3:23pm

    Good general overview of two web layout categories (the generic three-column and online newspaper equivalents.)

  • Rated by malfist on Dec 16 2007, 8:14pm

    Bad bad ideas. The three column layout, while not the best for everything, is good for many things, the redesign of apples webpage looks awful, keep the 3 column format please. The news layout is annoying I hate it, use something like /. or something threaded. Not the horrible rows.

  • Rated by TheBishma on Dec 12 2007, 6:10pm

    Doesn't delve deeply enough. 3 column design with a FCA for example is excellent for landing pages (though not for content pages). It's an excellent way to make sure a wide range of user expectations for content are met above the fold. As for print vs online; the fact that many people are intimidated by long lines of text hold true for both mediums. And a page full of titles only exacerbates the problem of people who only read titles.