Novice Design Mistakes

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So you have spent long sleepless nights, suffered from swollen eyes and a pain-stricken backbone to get your website on the net. Now the only problem is that as good as it looks to you there are several problems that mark it as a site built by a novice, and worse visitors aren’t sticking around. This article aims to assist you in avoiding common design mistakes.
So you have spent long sleepless nights, suffered from swollen eyes and a pain-stricken backbone to get your website on the net. Now the only problem is that as good as it looks to you there are several problems that mark it as a site built by a novice, and worse visitors aren’t sticking around. This article aims to assist you in avoiding common design mistakes.

  • Gizmo stuffing – Stuffing a site with the coolest gizmos may seem like the thing to
    do, but all that cool animation, music and related paraphernalia can be cumbersome in terms of downloading. No one has the patience or time to wait forever for a single page to download; a nice clean site with minimum download time is everybody’s choice.
  • Lacking contrast – Reading a webpage shouldn’t be a struggle and website visitors will vote by clicking away if your site doesn’t take this fact into account. Thus, if the text on a webpage has a low contrast compared to the background i.e. light colored text on a light background or dark text on dark background, it immediately turns off the reader.
  • Text on an animated/textured background – A static, plain background proves to be the best and facilitates the reading of text. A solid color background is thus the choice of experienced professionals.
  • Tiny text: Tiny
    texts look cool at certain times, but most of the time they are just hard to read. Because they’re hard to read, users may attempt to resize them using their browser, which frequently leads to the text bleeding all over your graphics etc. One solution is to fix the font size in your CSS. If you choose to do this, make sure you pick a reasonable sized font nothing smaller than 10pt and 12pt would be better.
  • More is not always better: You’ll want to limit the number of topics and options on
    your pages. A page, like a thesis, should have a main point it is driving at. It can have sub points, but if it has too many points that are off topic and unrelated it just begins to looks like you threw in everything you could think of, because you didn’t know what else to do.
  • Leaving visitors no where to turn Visitors hate dead-ends, especially when they enter through a link in the search engine result page. Every one of your pages
    should be tied to another page and not orphaned. In addition to
    the impact this has on human visitors it also stops search engine robots
    in their tracks.

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