Biggest blunders in Web Design Of All Time
Does this title sound interesting to you? Well, if it does then you can easily expect the rest of this article is going to give you a hilarious low-down on the greatest web designing mistakes of past, present and future. Yes, future because humans tend to repeat mistakes over and over again. These mistakes are presumed to be continued in the future also. What are they? Let’s take a look at them:
Designing Website for your needs
Most people make the mistakes of designing their website according their own whims and fancy. The bother the least or even literally forget what their business mission is and whom they are building the business for. Probably, they fail to understand the visitors’ psychology. As a matter fact, visitors often do not have enough time to read through the entire page and figure out what you business is all about. By committing this mistake, you are helping your competitors become a better choice.
Four Seconds To Fame
Does your website have the ability to tell the visitors what your website is all about? If it doesn’t then, don’t expect your visitors to be spending longer than that. Researches say that web visitors have the tendency to expect clarity within the first couple of seconds. If a site doesn’t make things clear, they will just move on to another site leaving you behind. For instance, your company’s name or its tagline should not be testing the visitors’ IQ; rather, it should be simple enough to explain what your business it all about.
Designing Elements To Trip Your Visitors
This is a classic mistake that most webmasters commit without knowledge. Don’t try to seduce your visitors more when they have already committed to your site by clicking on a link or any ad. A few of such examples are using splash pages, FlashSplash Pages, animations, too much text, too many pictures, etc. When the buyers are already at your doorstep, just let them in without much problem.
Poor Navigation Structure
The most common mistake that many people make is they design a poor navigation structure making their visitors feel like they are stuck in labyrinth. For instance, having a link to home page from your home page is the most disgusting blunder you can ever done to your site.
Using Mystery Meat Navigation
Mystery Meat Navigation or simply MMN can be described as situation when the visitor is required to click on an unmarked navigation button in order to find a specific page. Usually, buttons are displayed as graphics that have no description altogether. MMN works fine when you website is into music, movie, art or stuffs like that. If you are not into any of these businesses, forget about MMN.
Unable To Intoxicate Your Visitors
Do you have it in you to intoxicate your visitors with “Heroin Content”? Heroine Content refers to the content that makes your visitors come back to you every time they come online. So how do you intoxicate you visitors? By optimizing your website with updated content that catches the fancy of your visitors. If you can’t understand the likes and dislikes of your audience, you’ve had it big time!!!
Misusing Flash and Graphics
Why use graphics when simply text suffice the purpose? If you don’t know that graphics take up larger part of the webpage and that search engines hate graphics, then blame it on your poor knowledge of web designing. Some people have a fetish of making the matter worse by choosing background color that hurts the eyes of visitors. When it comes to Falsh, some people forget about putting the “skip intro” button ruthless subjecting their visitors to watching a FlashSplash page every time they visit their website.
