I was recently asked to go take a look at a web site project. Ordinarily, my answer to requests for a critique like this is, “Are you willing to pay my ‘I don’t want to do this,’ rate?” This person, however, I owed. Big. I almost asked, “Would you be willing to take an internal organ instead? I have a spare kidney!” I don’t think she would’ve taken it. She wanted the web site reviewed. And so I began my foray into a text book case of all that can go wrong in web development.
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