5 Big Design Mistakes - How NOT to kill your buisness
The first thing you should remember when creating a web page:
MAKE IT EASY TO NAVIGATE! No one will give two pennys on your
super designed site if they cannot find what they need! Create a
site so that it will combine design and usability! I have made a
list of what I consider to be the worlds biggest web-page design
mistakes. Look at this mistakes and learn from them!
I.Stupid, useless and annoying elements that don't let the
visitor find what they want. 1.STUPID SPLASH PAGE. Ok, maybe you
will say that a splash page(if it is well done) could look cool.
Yes it could. But think of the visitor's time. That splash page
takes often more time than it should. You could actually kill
your sales. What do you think that a potential customer would
prefer? To stay and look hours at your splash page or to go and
buy the product that he wants so much? When you create a site,
try to think more at the potential customer than how to expose
your flash-creator skills. They don't care about you, they care
about themselves!
2.APPLETS AND PLUGINS. Use them ONLY if you really need them.
Not just to spice up your website. Again, think again more at
the visitor. Maybe they haven't got a certain plugin and your
content will not work. Then, your website is useless and the
potential customer goes to the competition. Now that's really
cool.
II.Thinking at Internet Explorer as the supreme ruler Any
professional-made website should be compatible with any internet
browser. This is a rule. Always check your website to be
friendly with all major browsers: Opera, Firefox, IE. Don't send
your visitors to the competition just because they don't use IE.
III.Stupid navigation. A thing that any webmaster should do:
Spend hours and hours thinking how to simplify the navigation!
Of course I'm jocking but when the site is created one of the
first question you should ask yourself: "Is this site easy
enough to navigate?" If your answer is no, then is bad. Really
really bad. The visitor should be able to know at any time where
in your website he is. He should know in just a few seconds how
to reach the information he needs!
IV.To much information on one page Structure the information. DO
NOT put everything on just one page. Do not put to many menus on
the page. Try not to kill the visitors eyes. Try to keep a easy
to read layout. Most of the visitors hate to scroll.
V.Text Do not use small texts. Why there are so many sites on
the Internet with texts of such a small size? I have no idea. I
tell you again: kepp your webpage easy to read. Use texts big
enough so that the visitor can see what you are trying to tell
him through the page.