Web Design Elements You Should Avoid Having on Your Site
- By Uchenna Ani-Okoye
- Published 01/27/2009
- Web Design
- Unrated
When web designing, you should create your sites so that your visitors have the greatest ease of use, giving the best impression and most vital of all a welcoming experience. It does not matter if you have what you think is the greatest product in the whole world - if your site is badly done you will not be able to sell even a single copy of it as visitors will be deterred from your site by the terrible design.
When talking about a "good design", this is not only related to a good graphical look. A professional website design should be able to point out many things, there are multiple things which that may constitute a good site design - accessibility design, interface or layout design, the user experience and obviously the most natural, which is graphic design.
Here, some features have been presented of the worst website designs that can be found. Hopefully, you will be able to compare them up against the website you have own are considering as a type of checklist so if anything on your website fits the criteria, you may consider that it's high time to take some serious action!
1) Background music only if you are maintaining a website that promotes a band, a CD or something related to music, I would certainly advise you to stay clear of incorporating looping background music on your website. It may sound pleasant to you to begin with, but think about it! If you run a big website with hundreds of WebPages and every time a visitor goes to another webpage on your website, the background music begins playi
ng again.
If I was your visitor, I would just put my speakers on mute or navigate your website. Also, it just adds to the visitor's problem when searching your website - users on dial up connections will need to wait even longer in order to view your website because of all the loading that will be going on.
2) Extra large/small text size as was said earlier, there is more to website design than only graphics -- user experience is one a major part of it too! You should be designing the text within your website to be readable and well sized to allow your visitors to read through it without hurting their eyes. No matter how good the information of your site or the sales copy is, if it is hard to read you won't be selling a single thing!
3) Popup windows Popup windows are so obviously incorporated to show advertisements and in most peoples minds, 90% of popup windows are usually not even worth anybodies attention so they are just closed instinctively every time each one is able to pass through a popup blocker (I have a popup blocker and most people also have one!) and, pops up on a screen. So think about it, if you have an important message to put across and it is put in a popup window that are usually killed by most peoples popup blocker majority of the time they appear on a visitor's screen. Because of this your website will automatically lose its purpose immediately!
In conclusion to the article, you are reminded that as a webmaster your main objective is to make sure that your website can do what it's meant to do in the best way possible. Don't let some tiny mistakes prevent your website from functioning at its best!
When talking about a "good design", this is not only related to a good graphical look. A professional website design should be able to point out many things, there are multiple things which that may constitute a good site design - accessibility design, interface or layout design, the user experience and obviously the most natural, which is graphic design.
Here, some features have been presented of the worst website designs that can be found. Hopefully, you will be able to compare them up against the website you have own are considering as a type of checklist so if anything on your website fits the criteria, you may consider that it's high time to take some serious action!
1) Background music only if you are maintaining a website that promotes a band, a CD or something related to music, I would certainly advise you to stay clear of incorporating looping background music on your website. It may sound pleasant to you to begin with, but think about it! If you run a big website with hundreds of WebPages and every time a visitor goes to another webpage on your website, the background music begins playi
If I was your visitor, I would just put my speakers on mute or navigate your website. Also, it just adds to the visitor's problem when searching your website - users on dial up connections will need to wait even longer in order to view your website because of all the loading that will be going on.
2) Extra large/small text size as was said earlier, there is more to website design than only graphics -- user experience is one a major part of it too! You should be designing the text within your website to be readable and well sized to allow your visitors to read through it without hurting their eyes. No matter how good the information of your site or the sales copy is, if it is hard to read you won't be selling a single thing!
3) Popup windows Popup windows are so obviously incorporated to show advertisements and in most peoples minds, 90% of popup windows are usually not even worth anybodies attention so they are just closed instinctively every time each one is able to pass through a popup blocker (I have a popup blocker and most people also have one!) and, pops up on a screen. So think about it, if you have an important message to put across and it is put in a popup window that are usually killed by most peoples popup blocker majority of the time they appear on a visitor's screen. Because of this your website will automatically lose its purpose immediately!
In conclusion to the article, you are reminded that as a webmaster your main objective is to make sure that your website can do what it's meant to do in the best way possible. Don't let some tiny mistakes prevent your website from functioning at its best!
Uchenna Ani-Okoye
Uchenna Ani-Okoye is an internet marketing advisor and co founder of Top Affiliate Programs
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