Learn From The Mistakes Of Website Designers With Bad Website Designs
Websites and blogs are easier than ever to setup. Gone are the days when setting-up sites can only be done by IT guys or web geeks. Using free Content Management Systems or blog platforms, everyone has an even chance to have their own online presence. However, the easy road to setting up sites does not always translate to websites with good website designs. At some point or another, you must have seen websites with bad designs. A bad website design is very easy to identify. Unconsciously, we determine a site to be ugly based on some common characteristics. This article discusses the common traits of bad website design. With this knowledge, you, as a website designer, will be fully armed to avoid these bad website design mistakes. Here are a few pointers to help you get started.
Background And Text
Dark background, incompatible color combination of background and text, or very small font size makes for very hard reading. Stay away from stylish fonts but instead use sans-serif fonts for your contents. Having the right color mix and readable font size will improve usability of your site and make a big impact on the browsers' experience.
Communication Style
It is nice to appear smart and intelligent but geek speak or highly intellectual postings will not be perceived well by your potential clients. Each of your webpage should not be used for showing off your linguistic prowess or technically-laden lingo. The usual rule here is to communicate well with your visitors in an understandable, grammatically-correct, direct to the point manner. Technical details should be presented in the language level of your visitors.
Graphics
Having nice large graphics is only good for printed advertisement. Online, it is preferable to utilize easy-to-load graphics so webpages are refreshed quickly. If your website can't serve up information quickly and the longer your visitors become idle, the faster your visitors will exit from your site never to go back.
Templates and Navigation
Use templates so you will have consistent look and feel within your website. If your potential clients have to re-familiarize and re-learn the headers, navigation and footers for every webpage, your visitors will eventually get tired and leave.
Pop-ups
Unless extremely needed, don't use pop-ups. It is by far the single most annoying thing your visitor encounters while browsing. When visitors close the pop-ups, they also close your site, never to be annoyed again.
As regularly creating websites for my clients, I see a lot of web designers both good and bad. More often, the bad web designers have perfected the science and art of bad and ugly website design. I'm pretty sure this article opens your eyes and will aid you spot the difference between the two.
About the Author
William D. Jimenez runs a website that uncovers the complexities of web-design that can rank high in the Search Engines. To take advantage of this cool stuff and more, make sure you check out William's site at http://will2design.com/web-design.
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