7 Web Design Mistakes You Should Completely
| Date Added: March 18, 2009 04:29:33 AM |
| Author: Kabir Bedi |
| Category: Computers & Internet: Design and Development |
| The world of website design is a complex one. While there are plenty of techniques by which you can enhance the design of your website and make it more functional and usable, a small mistake can take a heavy toll on the same. Here are some mistakes that you should completely avoid making lest your website design pays for it. No Immediate Information Your website should immediately inform your audience about what it is about. Internet users are an impatient lot. They would not wait for more than 8 seconds to decipher the details of your website. If they don't understand your website and are unable to find the desired information within the first couple of seconds, then they will just leave for someplace else. Your website should convince visitors to stay and spend time there. Bad Content Organization The content placement and organization on your website plays an important role in its usability. Internet users don't read all the contents of the web page. In fact, they scan through the page to spot any required information. Therefore avoid using long scrapes of text on your website. Instead organize the information pleasantly with appropriate headlines, sub headings, bullet points and lists. Fancy Fonts Nothing distracts the website readers like fancy fonts that hinder readability on the website. Fancy fonts can give a sophisticated look and feel to your website but they can make the text a whole lot unreadable. Content is a extremely important aspect of your website that determines its online success. Therefore, you should make sure that visitors are able to read the contents of your website effortlessly. Opening New Browser Windows Many website designers decide to open new browser windows for external links as an effort to retain visitors on their website. However, this approach seldom works. In fact, it has a major flip-side to it. It snatches off the controls from the users and leave them frustrated. If you want visitors to stay, let them control where they want the links to open. All browsers have a back button that lets them revert back to the earlier website. Moreover, with the tabs feature in recent websites, it becomes all the more easier to view multiple websites on the same browser window. Resizing Browser Windows Just as mentioned in the previous point, taking away controls from the users will just get you frustrated and dissatisfied audiences. Resizing browser windows may mess up things at the user end and they will be all the more hesitant to visit again. Mandatory Registration Some websites require visitors to register before they can even browse through the contents of the site. Internet users search for information and they don't respond well if they are asked to supply information and that too without any requirements. Users just leave the website altogether rather than filling the extended registration form. Subscription without Permission While acquiring subscribers should be your objective, forceful subscription does just the opposite. Subscribing website visitors automatically, without their permission when they register on your website is not a neat trick. Rather, provide them with an option that they can check yes or no. Kabir Bedi is a senior web consultant at LeXolution IT Services, an eminent Web Site Design India Company that offers a range of website design and development services. Apart from that, the company also provides search engine optmization and website maintenance services including web site update services. |
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