It's interesting to read that, aside from actual design "mistakes" this article also includes some, I would say, etiquette based suggestions which seem innocenc

It's interesting to read that, aside from actual design "mistakes" this article also includes some, I would say, etiquette based suggestions which seem innocence/naive in hindsight. It wasn't too much earlier than this that registering a domain name carried some sort of responsibility to create site that was appropriate for it. Boy, those days are definitely long gone! Not using link-bait titles, always including a biography,not jumping on buzzwords, etc. This is definitely still fine advice for a quality site. At the time I certainly didn't image the future web would be cluttered with sites doing absolutely anything and everything possible to get clicks and views.