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Internet Success - Mistakes You Don't Want to Make Designing Your Web Page
- - for the most
part they are just annoying.
- Overuse of animated graphics - these are also quite distracting, and
can also take a long time to load.
- My Home Page - we know it's a home page, try being a little more creative.
- Under Construction signs - hopefully all web sites are always under construction, if they never change no one needs to come back.
- Misspelled words - use a spell checker.
- Broken links - they are very frustrating, check them occasionally.
- Missing graphics - doesn't look very professional.
- Long scrolling pages - If your page is long, divide it up. Long pages
take too long to load.
- Music - you can't count on visitors wanting to hear your choice of
music. Beside it takes a long time to load.
- Pop-up or Pop-under windows - extremely annoying.
- Obnoxious color schemes - this speaks for itself.
- Large or useless graphics - make your graphics count and try to keep
the file size as small as possible.
- Frames - only use these if absolutely necessary. Search engines don't
usually read them correctly, They are hard to bookmark, outside links that open
inside frames are annoying.
- Newest technology - don't try to put all of the newest technology on
your page.(i.e. FLASH) Older browsers can't see it and most of the time it is
unnecessary. Content is king!
- Long, complex URL's - you need to have a domain name people can type
in easily. Use a website like http://www.tinyurl.com to shorten your
web address.
- Unclear Navigation - make it easy to move around in your site.
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