Stylistically Bad Page

This is perhaps the worst one could do with a page. The text is practically illegible on the background, and it's blinking. The blink effect is acheived using the <blink> and &li/blink> tags. Note how this is terribly annoying, even if the text you make blink is only a few words, and especially when it's a whole paragraph.

Even without blinking, this paragraph is upsetting because it's aligned to the right, and it practically matches the background.

Another bad idea are incredibly long hyperlinks. The impression given is of several links, or of no links at all. Worse still, this paragraph doesn't tell you where the link goes; the World Wide Web is a communications media, but you can still talk a lot and say nothing.

Another style mistake is to nest text tags. Putting bold and italics on something is considered bad because html doesn't define the case, which means that a www client is not required to interprete it in any particular way. One or the other might be intrepreted, or both, or neither. Furthermore, bold and italic tags: <B>, </B>, <I> </I>are frowned upon because they insist on bold and italic. Usually the <STRONG> </STRONG>, and <EM>, </EM> are prefered, since they simply indicate strong or regular emphasis, which the client can interprete however it wants. More importantly, it can interprete these how the user wants. Besides, they make the paragraph hard to read.

Further, and lastly, I cannot stress this enough

The <h1>, </h1> and related tags are for use as headers, not as emphasis!

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