HarryM - 12:21 am on Mar 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

- Inverted-L shaped frames
- 800px wide pages that display on the left side of the screen in higher resolutions.
- text that expands to full width making the lines too long and difficult to read.
- banners
- anything that flashes
- more banners
- a photo of the site owner
- a photo of the site owner's wife, children, friends, dog, cat, house, boat, or bicycle.
- sites that made their name selling one product and have expanded into others - badly. Who wants to buy underwear at a bookshop?
- "Golden boxes"

As to drop downs, I think I'm the guilty party who sneered at them. Not in that thread, but in:

[webmasterworld.com...]

... they have gone out of fashion. In 2004 a drop down has to be stylistically exceptional, or else (IMHO) it looks clunky.

I think I upset the guy who was asking advice on how to create them. :)

But probably in a couple of years time (or less?) someone will be sneering at my site because it has left-side navbars...