The BBC's 15 web principles 15 Jan 2007

Tomski has published the BBC's fifteen web principles (originally developed as part of the BBC 2.0 project). Here are the first five:

1. Build web products that meet audience needs: anticipate needs not yet fully articulated by audiences, then meet them with products that set new standards.
2. The very best websites do one thing really, really well: do less, but execute perfectly.
3. Do not attempt to do everything yourselves: link to other high-quality sites instead. Your users will thank you. Use other people's content and tools to enhance your site, and vice versa.
4. Fall forward, fast: make many small bets, iterate wildly, back successes, kill failures, fast.
5. Treat the entire web as a creative canvas: don't restrict your creativity to your own site.

Read principles 6-15 at Tomski.com.