150KB+ images on your website make it really sluggish and produce a crappy user experience.

All Wordpress mobile plugins have limited usefulness if you’re using Wordpress for a business website.

Are you sure your ebook is so compelling that people will gladly exchange their email address just to download it?

Contrary to popular belief, not all web designers are in love with the websites they build.

I recall years ago installing a multi-disk application which said “press any key to continue” but when I pressed escape, it aborted.

I see a lot of blogs which have zero comments. What does that tell you about the way people use blogs?

I still see a lot of “click here” stupidity and laziness around the web.

If a client doesn’t have their website copy ready, you’re not ready to begin their website design.

If you’re “one of the finest SEO firms in India” how come you’re using a Gmail address?

If you’re going to market to people who speak English, it pays to use an English speaking marketing team.

If you’re not willing to keep writing new content on your website, you don’t deserve to be considered relevant online.

If you can’t compete on quality, you’ll be forced to compete on price.

If you have to offer something for “free” to get people to sign up for your newsletter, what sort of people will you attract?

If you think that hiring an expert is expensive, wait until you see what an amateur costs you.

If your email marketing tool can’t send both text and HTML, then choose another marketing tool.

If your potential client is fixated on your costs, then you’ve probably done a poor job selling yourself.

If your Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, or Google+ bio says that you’re any kind of “ninja”, I’m not taking you seriously.

If your website content reads like a commercial, then you’ve failed to keep us interested.

If your website can’t even show your main page content without Javascript, then your website is useless.

It’s high time web form designers realised that putting labels inside input fields makes them hopelessly unusable.

It seems like every organ grinder and his monkey is running some sort of “boot camp” these days.

Just for the record, I’m not a social media “expert”. The world seems to have enough of them already.

Most of the Indian “SEO services” spam I’ve been getting in the last six months comes from Google servers.

Most small business professionals would prefer more accountability from their website software providers.

Never judge the success of your blog by the number of comments it gets.

No matter how you look at it, “let’s exceed the customer’s expectations” is not a mission statement.

One of the major problems with “free software” is that the user interface is usually designed by programmers.

One of the most popular features on the web is your browsers “back” button.

One of the reasons blog comments are dying is because bloggers take too long to approve them.

Only skilled developers will understand what I mean when I say that most Wordpress plugins are written by incompetent hacks.

Only the naive will tell you that social media is free. Social media costs time, which is probably your greatest asset.

Oops, a canned email message from about.me starts with “Dear Name”. I mean, who still uses “dear” in the opening line?

People don’t care how “awesome” you think your website is. If it doesn’t have the answers they’re looking for, it’s useless.

People want to do business with people, not businesses. And pictures of real people on your website humanise your business.

Real mobile website design is expensive because there is much more to do than just addressing layouts for the small screen.

Real people use the web differently than they used to a few years ago, and that’s making a lot of web designers nervous.

Respect your website visitors and optimise your images before you upload them to your website.

Sites like http://freelancer.com would be more useful if the “projects” posted had a “report slave labour request” button.

Small businesses need to focus on improving their websites so they’re more useful to their customers.

The biggest problem for all owners of Wordpress sites is the constant threat of security exploits.

The biggest strength of free software is also its biggest weakness: anyone can change it, including those who shouldn’t.

The days of people avidly signing up to newsletters on websites are long gone. Why would they signup to yours?

The first step towards a more secure website is to carefully choose your web hosting provider.

The number of people who don’t care that websites don’t look the same in old browsers is probably much more than you think.

The term “free software” is often confused by people but “free” has absolutely nothing to do with money.

The trouble with “free software” is that support is often not much more than guesswork, rumours and hearsay.

There are a lot of appallingly bloated Wordpress themes out there which have a really crippling effect on usability.

There are still too many blogs saying “comments are now closed for this post” for posts with zero comments.

Twitter’s excessive use of Javascript breaks the back button. Try searching for “twitter sucks turds” and see what I mean.

Twitter is a good platform to test the commitment and quality of a company’s customer service.

Twitter is no more about “numbers” than a website is about “hits”. Relevancy is what’s important.

Usability is often a big problem with “free software” because the techies don’t focus on the majority of computer users.

We don’t force people to use any “mail” subdomain for email addresses, so why force them to use the “www” subdomain for websites?

Web applications can’t look the same in every browser, and trying to get them to do so is a waste of time and money.

Web hosting companies who claim 24/7/365 support sound great, but when they take more than 24 hours to reply to a ticket they’re just ordinary.

Websites are hacked by cybercriminals, not bored teenagers. How are you stopping it from happening to you?

When filling in web forms, watch out for checkboxes that are preselected. It’s a common trick used by spammy companies.

When you get a 1300 number, you better be ready to foot the bill for a lot of calls where people are trying to sell you crap.

When you pay $10 a month for hosting, security, stability, and support are the things that will usually suffer.

While there are lots of cheap web hosts, they’re not in the business of helping you make money with your website.

Why are so many of these “social media” bots incapable of following the robots.txt standard?

With so many attacks on Wordpress sites recently, it’s getting harder and harder to trust any Wordpress site.

Wordpress has become the spammers choice for mass link farm deployment.

Wordpress isn’t just a popular blogging platform, it’s also a favourite malware distribution system.

You’re right to be wary of “free” webinars. So many of them focus on lead generation instead of providing real value.

You don’t need Photoshop to optimise your images for the web but you do need to optimise them.

You want me to click the “like” button before I can watch your video? Really?

Your mobile site is not simply a “smaller screen” version of the normal one. The copywriting needs to be different too.