The design/coding concept "Don’t Repeat Yourself" (DRY) has gained pretty wide acceptance. The originators of that slogan, Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt, known as the Pragmatic Programmers, have a number of other principles also. On their website you can find a page that lists them with a one line summary for each. Here is a small sampling of the list;

• Program Close to the Problem Domain
• Don't Assume It---Prove It
• Design with Contracts
• Don't Think Outside the Box---Find the Box
• Don't Live with Broken Windows
• Use a Single Editor Well
• Use Exceptions for Exceptional Problems

See if you can guess at what each of these means before looking at the explanation. You maybe surprised at the result.

ha ha I think the don't think outside the box find the box could apply to most of the web designers I know.