Five Common Web Design Mistakes
by Charles Nixon
Published on this site: July 4th, 2004
Mistake #1
Web page size. If your website takes longer than 10-15 seconds
to load you should consider optimizing it for the web. This is one
of the biggest mistakes a web designer can make. You may have cable
and love to fill your website with graphics, but if your visitors
don't have cable or a fast connection at all your chances of getting
them to wait that 10 to 15 seconds for your page to load is very
slim.
Mistake #2
Flashy ads. Ok, so you have to bring in some cash some how right?
So you sign up to a bunch of banner ad affiliate programs. Only
problem with this is their banners are animated and constantly flashing
while your visitors view your website. This can be good in some
cases for getting some extra cash. But visitors can be easily annoyed
by these banners.
If your trying to get customers, having these flashy banners increases
your chances of your visitors leaving.
Lots of people may be drawn into these ads (probably your best
customers) and if they click that ad, they are now a customer to
someone else thanks to your affiliate program.
Mistake #3
Confusing Navigation. Before you build a website you should make
a sitemap for how everything is going to be setup.
Come up with a plan to have some form of contact information on
each page. If your visitor comes to a page and wants to purchase
something and they cant find a contact link they will most likely
change their mind while searching for it. Keep your navigation consistent
on each page. If your visitor has to learn to use a different type
of navigation system on every page they will become easily annoyed.
Mistake #4
Confusing Content. You want to make everything easy to read and
navigate. If you know someone thats in their teen years you should
come up with some questions to ask them about your website. Like:
- What do you think my site is about?
- Would you buy this product on my website?
- Can you understand the information on this(blank.html)page?
If you can get a teen, or even any average person to answer these
question's honestly you can find ways to change your setup so that
anyone and everyone is drawn in to purchase from you.
Mistake #5
Advertising. When you advertise your website the number one thing
that you donot want to do is spam. It is very easy to advertise
your website all over the web for free! You can use forums, article
submission groups, online communities, chat groups, news feeds,
and much more. If you do resort to spam this could hurt your website
sales. A lot web surfers will go around and if they find spam they
will report it to someone that will post it on a website that degrades
or gives bad reviews on your website.
If you can avoid these five mistakes that almost every webmaster
experiences than you will be on your way to success in no time.
Charles Nixon - Website Designer Driven by Creativity
Building websites to increase sales, and build web presence
Did you start your business to create a website? or to run
your business? With competitive pricing and your project delivered
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