Bad Mistakes Website Designers Make

Bad Mistakes Website Designers make include a number of things which are listed below and could have a negative effect towards your web site.

1. Some web sites are designed with no theme in mind. It’s important that you theme your website because it adds an expert approach to your website and search engines love a website theme.

When you’re adding a theme to your web site make sure your theme is visible in your domain name and throughout your web pages.

2. Avoid using frames because there is a hidden part of a webpage where the content is viewed by search engines and more often than not no content is added here due to the experience of the designer. This could mean that when search engines spider your website they will have a hard time understanding your webpage concept and will bypass these pages and not rank them in search results. The other negative thing about uisng frames is that your visitor will not be able to bookmark specific webpage’s they visit.

3. Don’t move your navigation links from webpage to webpage. Keep your web site navigation in the one place on all of your webpage’s. Moving your navigation around from webpage to webpage may cause confusion and
frustration with your web site visitors.

These 2 points for example are Bad Mistakes Website Designers make.

4. Keep your webpage’s nice and short and not too long where you need to keep scrolling down the web page to view and read the content.

5. Do not make your website template table too wide. 800 - 900 pixels template table width is a good width to work with. Only 1% of my website visitors have a screen resolution of 800 pixels x 600 pixels.

6. Where possible keep your hyperlinks blue and do not alter these colors because your  visitors might be new to the Internet and you might add some confusion.

7. Do not underline your text. If you need to get your visitors attention use the bold font feature instead of underlining text.

8. Keep away from Java Script, Java, some css and Flash files. These files rely on what your visitor have installed on there Computer. For example if you have content in a Flash format a Flash player is
required. Java script and some css files rely on your visitor to have a web browser that is compatoble with the scripting your use on your webpages.

Java itself is slow and relies on Java to be installed on your visitors computer. Java is also no longer being automatically installed during a windows XP installation.

Why do I say keep away and what do they have all in common? These concepts rely on your visitor to have either plugins or software installed or they need to use a web browser that supports what you have designed
using one of the above technologies.

Some old java scripting will work on most browsers but it’s a matter of finding the right scripts for you.

9. Have no more than 1 animated banner per webpage. These look unprofessional and have negative stigma attached to them by new web surfers.

10. Don’t use too many colors in your text and keep your color format of your web site within 3 colors only. Make sure these colors you choose work well together.

11. Avoid using slow loading images. Use a quality image editing program and make your images as small as possible in KB size without too much loss of image quality.

A DPI setting should be set at either 72 or 96 DPI.

12. Keep your web site design simple and clean from any mouse trails and
from any clutter.

13. Poor Spelling. make sure you do a spell check on all of your webpage’s.

14. If you’re adding music when your webpage loads make sure you have a play and stop button visible on the webpage. Bad Mistakes Website Designers make are lots and this is a common mistake.

15. It’s important you provide a contact e-mail so your visitors can contact you.

16. Always keep your design simple when you make your web site.

Bad Mistakes website Designers make are mentioned above and hopefully this list will help you design and build a better web site.

17. Do not resize your images using html code. This will slow down your webpage when your webpage loads.