Building a
website may be simple but to make it real usable for users to solve their
problems is a really challenging.
The
following design mistakes listed below are very important to taken care of:-
• Failure in
providing information – The homepage of the website should be self-explanatory
about its purpose so it makes visitors understand about what the website is all
about in seconds to take a decision that whether it is useful for them or not
without wasting their much time. It should give proper information about the
company’s products and services in the home page or About Us page.
• Use of
fancy fonts and tiny fonts – Use of fancy fonts which may give sophisticated
look to your website but if unreadable, it will fail to convey your message to
the visitors. At the same time visitors should be comfortable enough to read
the content for which the fonts should not be tiny.
• No use of
alt and title attributes – alt and title attributes should be used for every
XHTML tag on the website that supports them so that it is useful when the site
is visited through the browsers not supporting images and videos.
• Slow-loading
pages – Pages of the website should get loaded fast so that visitors doesn’t
gets bored by waiting until the page gets loaded fully. Slow loading may happen
due to use of large files of graphics and it become slower if visitor is using
dial-up connection of internet.
• No overuse
of Flash – excessive use of Flash may annoy visitors and it should be used only
if needed as it may also become a reason of increasing the loading time of the
page.
• No use of
background music or pop-ups – Background music in the website may irritate
visitor which leads to only choice for the visitor and that is to leave the
website. Pop-ups coming up again and again on clicks may also irritate visitors
at certain level.
• No Contact
details – Contact details should be included in the website otherwise it is of
no use for you if you not getting feedback or inquiries.
• Bad
Navigation - It should be easy for visitors to navigate to the pages in the
website easily.
• Advertising
– There should be no overloading of advertisements on the page especially big
banners. They should be limited up to certain extent and should be well placed
and well designed.
• No complex
URL structure – the URL structure should be simple and keyword based which
helps in improving search engine rankings and also helpful to visitors to have
some vague idea about the content before visiting the website.
• Visible
links – The visitor should know that which words are clickable and for that the
links used should have contrastable color to highlight them.
• Readable
CAPTCHA – If CAPTCHA filters are used to avoid spam or comments then it should
be readable properly.
These points
are necessary for good web designing so they should not be overlooked or
ignored but should be considered to get better results of your designing.
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