A common error I find doing my Usability and Design analysis, is the use of justify. As I have said in a few other posts, justifying text is for the use of block quotes, and not regular content.

Here is a classic example of justify text gone astray. When visiting the travel site, France This Way, you will see immediately why styling text with justify is not a great idea.

The four main menu descriptions are way over spaced, and the descriptions look more like tag boxes than something to read.

Justify Pushes Content Below the Fold

The site continues to use justify throughout all of its content, and this is bad why? It creates a second usability issue, to a lesser extreme, of forcing more vertical scrolling. Each bit of content the site had was lead by a photo. The photos seemed sized to fit the content. If you look at the site again, you will see that if the author did not use justify, the text would be tighter, and very often have one less line of text per image. If this was the case, the images could be a little bit smaller, the site would be a little tighter, and more content would be visible above the fold.

Those of you that argue that justify makes a site look more professional, what would the author use in this case to show visitor testimonials?