This is one of the things I just hate about the web: design tips from an alleged expert who has an absolutely horrible web design. What’s wrong with this? Let me count the things:

• Useless, complex background image under text, which makes the text hard to read.
• Weird mixed fonts, again making it hard to read.
• It doesn’t degrade gracefully; if you turn off images, it looks like garbage, and the alt tags show up in weird places.
• Comment field with “cute” saying.
• One of my personal favorites: the context only takes up half the browser window. Hello? If I want to look at skinny little columns, I’ll decide how wide to make my browser window.

Perhaps he ought to read some of those books and sites he touts on the bottom of the page.