A brief list of major web design obstacles facing today’s designers

There are no great solutions to any of these problems/limitations yet, just a series of hacks and work arounds …

CSS issues

• Multi-column layouts in CSS
• Vertically-centered content in CSS
• Active Links tag

Cross-browser compatibility issues

• Rounded corners
• Embedded fonts
• Rotated text
• PNG image files
• CSS Vertical Collapsing Margins
• Table Rowspan alignment
• ALT/title tags

Search Engine Readability Issues

• Ajax / Spry content
• Flash content
• Dynamic page URL naming

Designer Task Issues

• Hghlight current link/page in navigation
• Converting HTML table-layout site to CSS-layout site
• Thumnail galleries – cropping/aspect ratio matching
• Sub-domain RSS/XML security restrictions

Wish List

• Rounded corners!!!
• CSS/HTML dropshadow effect
• Simple fade effect for hover state
• Clean way to separate template from style from content