I spend an enormous amount of time building layouts, creating themes, reworking sites, tweaking code, advertising, and marketing. Lately I’ve realized that not every “coder” works the same way my partner and I do. For the love of me though I can’t understand why!

Below are the Top 5 Rulez I follow when working on projects, either for profit or for myself..

1. Make the code easy to modify - Comment comment comment! I make sure others can find their way through my work for future updates or changes without having to contact me if they wish to modify on their own.
2. Provide element information - Make note of the fonts, colors, etc that you use for a project. If the fonts used are allowed to be freely shared include them with the project files. Should you use an element such as a purchase ware font include the name of it or a link to the author’s site where the project owner can find it. Create a simple text file which lists text style, color, size, stroke and fill, also if you use a drop shadow or other embellishment note it for future reference.
3. Thou Shall Not Steal - Always feel free to view the source code of a design you like to gain information. However you should NEVER directly steal or copy source from another!
4. Do not subcome to the ugly - Resist the urge to fill websites with java scripts, scrolling text or marquees, floating objects, and most importantly animation is best in moderation.
5. Enough with the no right click - My biggest pet peeve involves no right click scripts. They are a pain in the fockering ass! If some one wants your content a NRC script is not going to stop them. They can screen shot the page and steal the image they want anyhow. They can view source and pull the url for the image to then open in a new window without the script and save it. There is no good that comes from a NRC script. They are evil! The only promised guarantee a NRC will give you is loss of visitors to your site. For example I use a tabbed browser to surf. I love having the ability to open a link in a new window without having to leave the page I am on. It’s a major pain in the butt when I can’t right click to do so. Yeah of course I can use control + click or shift + click but why make me bother. Another pain with NRC scripts is what do you expect the visitor to do when your images don’t load correctly? You’ve taken away the ability to right click “show image”. Ditch the annoyances on your site to increase visitor happiness all around.

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