Content sites tend to be quite plain looking on outside but are stuffed full of useful information on inside. Web surfers love content sites. Why? Because they find exactly what they're looking for or a link to it. The whole idea of Internet in first place was to fulfill this need for useful information.

Pros Valuable information for visitors Visitors likely to return again Search engines love them

Cons Normally not as "pretty" as poster sites Spammy techniques being used to create "dud" content

Don't Have A Clue Site These are interesting. A DHAC site is an anomaly. They're designed by people who decide they want a website but have no clue how to go about it. They contact their ISP for information on how to do this. 45 minutes later their first creation is online.

The DHAC site has following features:

Graphics that take 10 minutes to load 50% of graphics are missing Flashing banner Animated graphical menu Flashing body text 75% of links don't work Graphics scattered about page Blue text on green background Frames used extensively Incomplete HTML tags H1 tags used for all body text i.e. huge text

It's not fair to generalize like this I know but we've all seen these sites. They're there and they give us a direct path that we should not follow.

Pros Good to poke fun at Great examples of how not to design a website

Cons They're awful

Some websites will thrive and survive in 2004 and beyond.

Other websites will weaken and die.

Which category does your website fall under?