I really, really hate badly written code. There are some “web designers”, and I’m using that term very loosely, that should have their fingers broken and never, ever permitted near a keyboard again.

An example is a web site that I recently created a nice and cleanly coded template for. The previous designer (again that term is very loosely used) had written such horrible and convoluted code. It was a mixture of poorly nested tags that was so horrible that other designers found it a nightmare to update.

What many people do not understand is that badly written code causes loading problems, and search engine spiders to give up (and we don’t want that to happen now do we) while crawling your web site. And depending on the browser make your nice new web site look horrible.

It actually makes me wonder if they don’t pay attention to the code what else aren’t they paying attention to?

Learn to code instead of just using a WYSIWYG. If you learn to code then you can look at it be be able to identify the problem. Using a WYSIWYG can leave behind tiny bits of code (empty or missing tags) that can cause problems with the web site.