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Web Design Elements You
Should Avoid Having on Your Site
As a web designer, you should design your websites to give your visitors the greatest ease of use, the best impression and most important of all a welcoming experience. It doesn't matter if you had the greatest product in the whole world -- if your website is poorly done you won't be able to sell even one copy of it because visitors will be driven off your website by the lousy design.
When I'm talking about a "good
design", I'm not only talking about a good graphical
design. A professional web design will be able to point out
that there are many components which contribute to a good
website design -- accessibility design, interface or layout
design, user experience design and of course the most
straightforward, which is graphic design.
Hence, I have highlighted some
features of the worst web designs I've come across.
Hopefully, you will be able to compare that against your
own site as a checklist and if anything on your site fits
the criteria, you should know it's high time to take
serious action!
1) Background
music
Unless you are running a site
which promotes a band, a CD or anything related to music, I
would really advise you to stay away from putting looping
background music onto your site. It might sound pleasant to
you at first, but imagine if you ran a big site with
hundreds of pages and everytime a visitor browses to
another page on your site, the background music starts
playing again. If I were your visitor, I'd just turn off my
speakers or leave your site. Moreover, they just add to the
visitors burden when viewing your site -- users on dial up
connections will have to wait longer just to view your site
as it is meant to be viewed.
2) Extra large/small
text size
As I said, there is more to web
design than purely graphics -- user accessibility is one
big part of it too! You should design the text on your site
to be legible and reasonably sized to enable your visitors
to read it without straining their eyes. No matter how good
the content of your website or your sales copy is, if it's
illegible you won't be selling anything!
3) Popup
windows
Popup windows are so blatantly
used to display advertisements that in my mind, 90% of
popup windows are not worth my attention so I just close
them on instinct everytime each one manages to pass through
my popup blocker (yes, I do have one like many users out
there!) and pops up on my screen. Imagine if you had a very
important message to convey and you put it in a popup
window that gets killed most of the time it appears on a
visitor's screen. Your website loses its function
immediately!
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