Web design

Proper web design seems to be something that is out of grasp of the majority of commercial web developers.

My dad asked me for help with some particular website last week, and in the two minutes that I was looking at the site, I saw four errors:

1. It only worked if you use IE, giving you a white empty page if you use a real browser. I thought the dark ages of "This site optimized for Internet Explorer" were over three centuries ago.
2. When opened in IE, it started off with a useless intro. I wasn't even remotely impressed, neither was my dad. Especially not seen the fact that he had to jump through a number of hoops to get at this silly intro (IE is hidden away into obscurity on my dad's computer, since I don't want to have to deal with the incredible amount of security issues this sieve has)
3. The first page given was a menu which is never repeated afterwards (hurray for continuity), and which uses mystery meat navigation.
4. Last but not least, <li> items (or whatever they abused to implement the same thing) have their first sentence coloured in a certain kind of blue, with no underlining. <a> items are coloured in the exact same shade of blue, with no underlining (and no hover effects). So the only way to see that a piece of text is no hyperlink is by hovering your mouse over there and verifying whether the mouse pointer changes. Way to go!

I forgot what the exact URL of the website was. It's not very important, though.