Wednesday, January 5, 2011

10 Things Not To Include In A Website

1. Flashy pictures could distracts all of your other content on your page. I've seen some websites that overly used this just because it looks nice but it can be really distracting.

2. Same goes for flashy background. This is even worse than having flashy pictures. It's too distracting. Can you imagine having both flashy pictures AND background? Your eyes would melt and your head would pound!

3. Bad color contrast is one thing a lot of designers don't get when they choose colors. It's very hard to carefully choose which is the best colors to use that would help compliment each other.

4. One strange site that I've seen and was a bit hilarious had 5MB worth of content. Basically it was like a whole movie and it took about 30 seconds to a minute to load! I don't know about you, but i was taught to make websites to load as quickly as possible because users lose interest after a certain amount of time which is usually 5-10 seconds.

5. What is the point of even putting content if you have font colors that's really hard to read? I don't see how some of these designers don't understand this when they try to use a blue color font with a dark green background color. It was pretty horrible. I'm guessing the designer must have special vision to be able to read his content.

6. Please keep the website organized and well planned together. I don't wanna see so many different information and irrelevant things that are scattered everywhere throughout the site.

7. Don't have so many different colors in your website layout. It'll make your site look really cheesy. Stick with at the most 3 colors in your theme.

8. After linking your pages together, you always, ALWAYS, make sure they all work and linked really good together. Also make sure your link doesn't link to the wrong page.

9. So i came across one website which was all nice and pretty and very pleasing, but....I couldn't figure out how to navigate through the pages until i found the links in these tiny little egg which is unexpected. I think this is not a good concept. Make sure your links are easy to find and more accessible. I felt a little lost.

10. Never ever use a picture as a scroll locked background image. It's horrible....if I see one, I automatically would be reminded of the bad MySpace layout.

No comments:

Post a Comment