5 Things to Avoid in Website Design
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Designing your website needs extra attention to minute detail. This is to ensure that it will perform best as expected to serve its purpose. Here are seven rules to avoid when designing your website.
1. Splash pages
These are the first pages you see in a website. They are beautiful image with texts like “welcome” or “click here to enter”. They actually don’t have any purpose for being there. Oftentimes, your visitors immediately click on the “back” button when they see splash pages. Remember, the moment your visitors click on your website, present to them up front what you have to offer them minus the splash page.
2. Excessive banner advertisements
Banner advertisements do not really add value to your websites. These ads are usually just ignored. What you can do is to include more valuable content and have relevant affiliate links into your content. Your visitors should feel the desire to buy and not be pushed to buy.
3. Complicated navigation menus
Simple and clear navigation menu is imperative. Don’t be amazed by flash based menus or multi-tiered drop down menus.If they don’t know how to navigate, you yourself push them to leave your site.
4. Confusion on where the user is navigating
Make sure that while your visitors are so engrossed in browsing through your site, they must know which part of the site they are navigating at the moment. Your website must be designed in such a way that they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site so easily. Never confuse your visitors so they won’t leave your site immediately.
5. Audio on your site
Visitor stay at your site reading your content. They might be annoyed by some audio on your website. However if you really want to add audio, make sure your visitors have some control over it such as volume or muting controls.
