There are a lot of mistakes found on website designs.Mistakes are the part of our life because we are human beings,not robots(sometimes even robots also!). Avoiding mistakes is the lesson that we get from our life.In this article Iam sharing some web design mistakes that you must avoid.
#1: User must know about the site in seconds
From my own experience,visitors are not watch a site for long time to know what the site is about.They want to know about the site in seconds,otherwise they will leave.Your site must speak what the site is about to your visitors.
#2: Avoid tiny fonts
Make your fonts easily readable and attractive.I mentioned attractive because even nice fonts can hold visitors in your site.I recommend to avoid tiny fonts and use Google fonts to get an awesome font as your wish.
#3: Do not use Blinking text
I found some sites are using blinking text.Its really unnecessary because this is 2012.
#4: Make sure to include Contact details
Visitors love to see a complete website.when iam reading articles on a website,i also check the contact details,if i cant find contact details surely I skip that site.There are a lot of people on internet checking sites like me.!! so its better to include contact details.
#5: Use a simple Navigation structure
Almost everyone in the world loves the word 'simple' and I love it too.There is an application 'sometimes less is more' .Yes! Make sure to apply this rule to your site and make it simple and easy navigation.
#6: User can understand what the link is about before click
Visitor must know which link is useful and which is not before clicking,easily.Make sure that the links had the standard colour(Most sites had standard blue colour,some had red too).
#7: Colour of links must change after click
I think you already saw this from many sites.After we clicking,the link changes to another colour.If the link colour is blue,it will changes to light violet(Almost every sites had this change). I didn't recommend you to change colour from blue to light violet(the colour must change after clicking on the link,no problem even it is any colour,but the colour must be visible).
#8: Do not use penetrating colours
Use simple colours for your site.If a visitor getting blur for his eyes after visiting your site,remember he will not visit again.! Mixing of high penetrating power colours make your site boring and bad looking.
#9: Make the content scannable
Before reading an article completely,i just glance the entire content 2 times and make sure that the content is good and worth to read.Most visitors are reading an article before glance the entire content.So the headings,subheadings,links,theme of the article must understand for visitors even if they reading at a glance.
#10: Do not play music on your site
Most sites are managing or holding this rule.Playing music is a waste and it slows your site as it needs some script.
The list doesn't completes yet.I just shared what i found mostly when iam searching.You also found enough mistakes on internet.let me know what you found through comments.
Enjoy!
