Top Website Mistakes

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Top Web Design Mistakes

Week 2

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Graphics

Too Many Graphics Load slowly.Visitors lose patience

SOLUTION:  Save for web / optimize Reduce the size of graphics.

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Wordy Pages

Why omit needless wordsReduces the noise level of the

pageMakes the useful information

more prominentMakes the pages shorter

How to omit needless words? Two rules to followHappy talk must dieInstructions must die

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Color: Bad Color

Coordination Avoid using dark text on a dark

background. Use dark text on a light

background Use colors that blend well

together 

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Are your testing audience’s eyes?

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See improvement?

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Long Scrolling

Scroll horizontally or vertically to view the whole web page.

Create the width of your web page to fit on one screen to avoid horizontalscrolling, and have a maximum of 3 pages to be scrolled vertically.

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You have to scroll right and down to see all the content

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Meta Tags Missing

Without optimizing your web page with a description or keywords, people can’t find you on the search engines.

Research key words or phrases relevant to your sitecontent.

Include them in your title, description and web site copy.

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Poor Navigation

Visitors can’t easily find the information: broken links, error pages, too many moving objects (animations, flash, scrolling text, marquees)

Keep your navigation simple, createsimple links on all web pages, create simple and clean interface

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Do you know instantly how to navigate?

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Layout and Design

How to Create an aesthetically pleasingdesign Keep enough white space

between your text and images by using margins.

Don’t overlap text and imagesAvoid capitalizing all text Use font type such as Arial or

Verdana

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How do you like this layout?

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What is the difference?

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How about this one?

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Frames

Avoid Using Frames frames don’t allow bookmarking

the page or return to it and sometimes the URLS stop working. 

http://www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/

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Orphan Pages

Some page where the visitor has no idea how it fits in with the overall structure of your web site.

You should always have a link to thehomepage, so visitors know where they are on your web site.

Thank YOU

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