I think that this article has a point regarding Website designers that claim to be serious about what they do, only to show their site which is done in a way that does not meet with proper standards. Speaking as someone who is not a designer, we are lucky. I can make my site as ugly as I want and have to answer to no one. After all, I am a mere beginner in this whole thing, right?

Vincent Flanders writes on his Web Pages That Suck site that one of the biggest web mistakes of 2004 (actually, number three in the list) is the ‘mystical belief in the power of web standards, usability, and tableless CSS’. He writes:

There is nothing wrong with any of the above except they’re being touted by…guess who?…people who offer web design services specializing in…guess what?…Web Standards, Usability, and tableless CSS. These are simply tools. Remember, nobody gets excited about the tools used to build a house (”Please tell me what brand of hammers you used!”). People get excited about how the house looks and performs.