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Top Web Mistakes1 02/02/2010
Top Web Design Mistakes
Week 2
Top Web Mistakes2 01/13/09
Graphics
Too Many Graphics Load slowly.Visitors lose patience
SOLUTION: Save for web / optimize Reduce the size of graphics.
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Wordy Pages
Why omit needless wordsReduces the noise level of the
pageMakes the useful information
more prominentMakes the pages shorter
How to omit needless words? Two rules to followHappy talk must dieInstructions must die
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Color: Bad Color
Coordination Avoid using dark text on a dark
background. Use dark text on a light
background Use colors that blend well
together
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Are your testing audience’s eyes?
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See improvement?
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Long Scrolling
Scroll horizontally or vertically to view the whole web page.
Create the width of your web page to fit on one screen to avoid horizontalscrolling, and have a maximum of 3 pages to be scrolled vertically.
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You have to scroll right and down to see all the content
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Meta Tags Missing
Without optimizing your web page with a description or keywords, people can’t find you on the search engines.
Research key words or phrases relevant to your sitecontent.
Include them in your title, description and web site copy.
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Poor Navigation
Visitors can’t easily find the information: broken links, error pages, too many moving objects (animations, flash, scrolling text, marquees)
Keep your navigation simple, createsimple links on all web pages, create simple and clean interface
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Do you know instantly how to navigate?
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Layout and Design
How to Create an aesthetically pleasingdesign Keep enough white space
between your text and images by using margins.
Don’t overlap text and imagesAvoid capitalizing all text Use font type such as Arial or
Verdana
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How do you like this layout?
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What is the difference?
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How about this one?
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Frames
Avoid Using Frames frames don’t allow bookmarking
the page or return to it and sometimes the URLS stop working.
http://www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/
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Orphan Pages
Some page where the visitor has no idea how it fits in with the overall structure of your web site.
You should always have a link to thehomepage, so visitors know where they are on your web site.
Thank YOU
01/13/09
