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Web Design Elements You Should Avoid Having on Your
Site
As a web designer, you should design your websites to give your
visitors the greatest ease of use, the best impression and most
important of all a welcoming experience. It doesn't matter if you
had the greatest product in the whole world -- if your website is
poorly done you won't be able to sell even one copy of it because
visitors will be driven off your website by the lousy design.
When I'm talking about a "good design", I'm not only talking about a
good graphical design. A professional web design will be able to
point out that there are many components which contribute to a good
website design -- accessibility design, interface or layout design,
user experience design and of course the most straightforward, which
is graphic design.
Hence, I have highlighted some features of the worst web designs
I've come across. Hopefully, you will be able to compare that
against your own site as a checklist and if anything on your site
fits the criteria, you should know it's high time to take serious
action!
1) Background music
Unless you are running a site which promotes a band, a CD or
anything related to music, I would really advise you to stay away
from putting looping background music onto your site. It might sound
pleasant to you at first, but imagine if you ran a big site with
hundreds of pages and every time a visitor browses to another page
on your site, the background music starts playing again. If I were
your visitor, I'd just turn off my speakers or leave your site.
Moreover, they just add to the visitor’s burden when viewing your
site -- users on dial up connections will have to wait longer just
to view your site as it is meant to be viewed.
2) Extra large/small text size
As I said, there is more to web design than purely graphics -- user
accessibility is one big part of it too! You should design the text
on your site to be legible and reasonably sized to enable your
visitors to read it without straining their eyes. No matter how good
the content of your website or your sales copy is, if it's illegible
you won't be selling anything!
3) Popup windows
Popup windows are so blatantly used to display advertisements that
in my mind, 90% of popup windows are not worth my attention so I
just close them on instinct every time each one manages to pass
through my popup blocker (yes, I do have one like many users out
there!) and, well, pops up on my screen. Imagine if you had a very
important message to convey and you put it in a popup window that
gets killed most of the time it appears on a visitor's screen. Your
website loses its function immediately!
In concluding this article, let me remind you that as a webmaster
your job is to make sure your website does what it's meant to do
effectively. Don't let some minor mistakes stop your site from
functioning optimally!
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