ValiDAQ
After the Argos Redesign Debacle, I decided to start a Top Ten Invalid Web Sites, otherwise known as ValiDAQ. As I’m too cheap to register the domain name, you’ll just have to put up with it living under our www address ;)
Kathy wonders, perhaps rightly, why I get so worked up about this sort of thing. I think it’s a combination of Web Standards Zealotry, a modicum of expertise in the field in question and a general burning desire to put the world to rights.
ValiDAQ is currently one static page. I’m thinking of utilising the top-invalid-docs Perl script that Gerald Oskoboiny wrote to analyse sites, automating the process and making life easier for me :) The plan is to have a general top-ten, then category top-tens, e.g. Banking/Finance, e-Commerce, News, Software/IT companies etc etc. Also, I’m not that interested in listing blogs or personal sites, as they’re usually much better at sticking to the standards.
You know what Steinbeck said about the best-laid plans…