Here are some guidelines that will make me actually like your amazing new web application!
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Make sure encoding is handled properly every step of the way. If
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Make it accessible. Turn off images, JavaScript, and CSS. If your website is still legible and usable (it’s okay if it’s just barely usable, or not particularly interactive) then you are already in the top 0.01%.
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Check your grammar. One of the fastest ways to lose respect in a blog post (or worse — in body copy) is to make basic orthographical or grammatical mistakes. These include, but are not limited to:
- Missing apostrophes — [Bitbucket even did that][bitbucket-apostrophe-catastrophe].