I didn’t qualify for Fran�ois Briattes survey of how 10 websites differ on 25 elements, however I’ll pretend I did and examine myself just for kicks.
It turns out mentalized.net differs from the norm in 4 of the 25 spots putting my dissidence at 16%. Allow me to explain my reasoning behind these differences.
- 4: Are hovered links underlined? (80% yes - Me: not really)
- Strictly speaking my :hover style isn’t underlined, I change the background-color instead. Visual preference and to make sure the :hover style is more distinquished from the regular link styles.
- 19: Does the navigation bar use image rollovers? (60% yes - Me: no)
- No images were harmed in the navigation of this page. Pure text all the way. With limited graphic skills this seemed the easier way to go.
- 20: Is the page UTF-8 encoded? (60% yes - Me: no)
- I am kicking it oldschool with ISO-8859-1. I can’t really give a reason for this, I reckon I just haven’t seen any compelling reasons to switch to UTF-8. Admittedly, this isn’t something I have considered much.
- 24: Is there a 404 page? (60% yes - Me: no)
- Yeah yeah, I realize I should have one. Not having one is primarily due to me being a lazy bastard and not daring messing too much with the server this website runs off (which is the same as my work website).
Man, do I feel like I am part of the in crew now. ;)