20, been designing since 2000ish and have seen many different trends pop up and die over the years. But what I like in a site has changed little, crucial elements like originality and quality should never go out of style.

I love simple, classic, clean layouts with good contrast between background and text so that everything is readable and well organised. However, I don't mind complex layouts that is astounding in their style and flair. Big bonus points for layouts that works in Firefox and 800x600 res.

Content is really important, I love reading about opinions and rants. Quality over quantity! Originality is a must.

I hate brushes, especially those grungy, swirly ones. I hate grungy, celeb layouts, although as with all layouts, it can be done well. Same goes for vector illustrations, there are a few really incredible ones but the majority is cheap trash. It's just that the majority of times, people slap on trendy styles and the layouts end up looking manufacturered. Dammit people, being able to read the text is #1 priority! I don't care about code validation, but I exit sites which I can't read in Firefox.

As for content, I hate sites with loads of meaningless content like fwds and quizzes and simplistic "adoptables" that looks like it took 2 seconds to make. Yup, I sure want to "adopt" a square/triangle/circle. Countless contentless fanlisting under the label that it's "content". Ugh. It's not.