If you can remember back to a time when you weren't involved in radio and were just a civilian, you likely didn't notice all the small mistakes on the air that now drive shivers up your spine. Nowadays, you can't listen to any station, let alone your own, without breaking it down and picking out the flaws. For web designers, we see the same thing. We notice the little things on other sites - and it is very common to find such problems on radio station sites since many of them beyond the top markets are handled by people who aren't full-time designers. Today's column is a little help to avoid some of those pitfalls. If you've been doing this for awhile, it will be old hat, but its still important.

If you can remember back to a time when you weren't involved in radio and were just a civilian, you likely didn't notice all the small mistakes on the air that now drive shivers up your spine. Nowadays, you can't listen to any station, let alone your own, without breaking it down and picking out the flaws. For web designers, we see the same thing. We notice the little things on other sites - and it is very common to find such problems on radio station sites since many of them beyond the top markets are handled by people who aren't full-time designers. Today's column is a little help to avoid some of those pitfalls. If you've been doing this for awhile, it will be old hat, but its still important.