Web Designing Mistakes
As your website is the representation of your business on the internet, it should appeal to your visitors. However, there are few websites, which scare visitors away than luring them. Following are few designing errors, which you should avoid if you want your site to be more user friendly and generate maximum number of hits
• Back Ground Design
We have many soft ware programs available that provide numerous tools to design background of your website. However, the prime concern of any design should be to make the website look sober and appealing, unless you require to design a flashy website of a bar. or a gambling den.
• Dark Background with light text is The Perfect Mix
It is difficult to print pages with black background. In addition, it becomes almost impossible to copy the text when it is written on a black background, though this you can use to protect your content. Hence, professional web designers often use the above design technique.
• No Clutter In The background
Having clutter means more down loading problems. A cluttered background also sometimes becomes so flashy to send the visitors away. Hence avoid the same.
• Content
Website content should be informative and should have originality. Web sites sometime fail because they have mere imitation of content rather than having anything of their own. A good website is the one that has a quality content developed to represent the business in its totality
• Link building
If you give a number of links in your site, after every two or three sentences visitors might not follow it and it may look mere jumble of sites than an informative content. Hence, only important and useful link building should be done
• Multimedia Usage
You may be tempted to use all the tools available for give the site a look of multi-multi media, but in the process, it may turn to be keeping the visitors away. Therefore, while designing, make sure you use your creative approach more than your graphic tools.
Similarly, too many images may mar the look of your site as it will give a cluttered impression. Therefore, use only those images, which are necessary for the website and its business. We may know about many tools to put images and other content on the site, however, it is not necessary to use all of them on the site. For example, Flash should be used in a creative manner, as many visitors still do not like moving flash images. Flash is more ubiquitous now. Flash can be used as an image enhancer, where you can make your images more alluring and stylish. However, it has been used more often just to impress.
Similarly, large images take a long time to load.. Downloading or even the loadings of Heavy files make your visitor wait which is certainly exasperating. Many sites using such files may be, in fact, turning away their visitors.