Website Design Elements to Avoid

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By hobsdv


As an internet designer, you had better design your sites to give your visitors the best simplicity of use, the finest imprint and most authoritative of a hospitable experience. It does not count if you had the best product in the entire cosmos -- if your site is poorly done you will not be capable of selling even one copy of it as visitors will be drove away from your site by the crappy design.

When I am talking of a "fine design", I am not only talking of a good graphical blueprint. A pro internet design will be capable to remonstrate that there are a lot of elements which bestow to a good site design -- availability design, user interface or layout design, user experience design and of course the most direct, which is graphic design.

Thus, I've highlighted a few features of the lousiest internet designs I have come upon. Hopefully, you'll be able to compare that versus your own web site as a checklist and if anything on your web site meets the standards, you should acknowledge it is high time to take severe action!

1) Background music

Unless you're operating a web site which advertises a band, a CD or anything associated with music, I'd genuinely suggest you to stay away from placing looping background music onto your web site. It could sound beautiful to you at the start, but envisage if you ran a large-scale web site with hundreds of pages and everytime a visitor surfs to a different page on your site, the background music begins playing once again.

If I were your visitor, I would simply switch off my speakers or exit your web site. Furthermore, they just add to the visitors load when seeing your web site -- users on dial up connections will have to wait longest just to see your web site as it's intended to be looked at.

2) Extra large/small text size

As I stated, there's more to web design than strictly graphics -- user accessibility is one great part of it as well! You ought to contrive the text on your web site to be clean and sensibly sized to enable your visitors to understand it without distorting their eyes. Regardless of how great the articles of your site or your sales copy is, if it is unclear you will not be marketing anything!

3) Popups

Popup are so blatantly utilized to show adverts that in my mind, 90% of popups are not worthy of my attention and so I simply close them on instinct everytime. Imagine if you had a really significant message to express and you put it in a popup that gets stamped out most of the time it comes out on a visitor's screen. Your site misses its function straightaway! In closing this article, let me prompt you that as a webmaster your task is to be sure your site does what it is intended to do. Do not allow a few minor errors stop your web site from operating optimally!

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