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royal
04-10-2012, 02:37 AM
Hi,
The performance of a website relies on good web design, while making sure that common mistakes are avoided. The website must be highly usable to visitors enabling them to easily respond to the call to action on each page.

Here are some specific aspects to keep in mind as not doing these can make the difference between success and failure with web design :

1. Pay attention to updating your site regularly

2. Contact information must be prominently displayed

3. Links must be checked regularly to ensure they lead to the right information pages

4. Flashy designs, scrolling text and graphics that hurt the eye must be avoided as not only do they increase page load time, but are also extremely annoying.

5. Be mindful of simple things like not disabling the back button, opening all pages in new windows, a riot of colors, multiple fonts that are inconsistent and other frills that only distract the visitor from his purpose.

6. Feature a site map across all pages of your website so that visitors can easily navigate to the page of their choice.

7. Make sure you track visitor activity on the site to improve areas that need it.

8. Ensure that visitors don't leave the site because they do not know how to find their way around.

9. Always make sure that the content is legible.

10. Some sites tend to have audio or video playing automatically as soon as the web page is opened. This can be annoying to visitors.

bryanbell
04-12-2012, 06:08 AM
A few more mistake to avoid in web design

1. Avoid the use of fixed font sizes
2. Don’t use images for navigation
3. Avoid the fancy or tiny fonts

boybawang
04-12-2012, 06:36 AM
It’s very nice to play with new toys, but your website is not a suitable playing field. Visitors to your website are interested in content, not whether you have Brand X Version N of flashy stuff on your website. Keep things simple. Use tried and trusted technology, not web tools that require the user to download special add-ons just to view your website. They won’t..

soncolber
04-25-2012, 05:38 AM
The good web design is not really difficult but there are a few things that we should avoid if we want to create user-friendly websites. The are some common mistakes arise due to lack of proper experience of the web designers like Using frames for page layout, Scrolling, Blinking and animations, long scrolling pages and many more. Necessary measures should be taken by the designers while the creation to avoid these mistakes which occurs commonly.

iqbal77
04-28-2012, 10:52 PM
nice tips thanks