eBook Bounty Times eZine Issue No. 25
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“EBOOKBOUNTY TIMES EZINE”
“Helping You Succeed In Your Internet Business”
June 24, 2007 Issue #25
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FEATURE ARTICLE - The Top 10 Biggest Web Design Mistakes
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Author: Keith Bowman of eBookBounty.com
In the world of web design, there are plenty of mistakes you
can make, and in this article, I’m going to look at what I
believe to be the top 10 biggest. You need to check your site
for these mistakes right now, and fix them if they’re there –
otherwise you’re going to be annoying your visitors and driving
them away from your site.
1. Too Many Ads. When you’re trying to make money from your
website, it’s all too easy to try to fit in more ads than
you really should, or start using ad formats that are too
intrusive. If you’ve put a new ad on your site, go to the
site as if you were a visitor, and ask yourself honestly:
is this just too much?
2. Plugin Overload. You’ve got to keep media that uses plugins
to a strict maximum of one per page: that means that if you’ve
got Flash, then you can’t have a media player, or if you’re
using Java then you can’t have Flash. It’s not as bad to use
the same plugin twice, however.
3. Flash Intros. Please, don’t use a Flash intro on your
website. You’d think everyone would realise they’re a bad idea by now,
but every web designer still gets clients who just don’t seem
to realise that Flash intros are universally mocked and hated.
Don’t be one of those people.
4. Unclear Layout and Navigation. Many websites, especially
business sites, seem to suffer from some kind of disease where
even the very simplest task takes ten steps to achieve. If
people are emailing you to ask you how to do things on your site, then you
need to improve your layout and navigation. Remember: if there are
certain tasks people seem to want to do more often, put them on the
front page.
5. No Marking for External Links. There are two kinds of links:
internal (to other parts of your website) and external (to other
websites). For the benefit of your visitors, though, it’s best
if you mark external links, either by making them a different
colour or using some kind of a symbol (a box with an arrow is the usual
one). It’s also good to make the external links open in new
windows, so people aren’t leaving your site altogether when they click
them.
6. Unclear Linking. You might think it looks better to only show
links when people put their mouse over them, or not make their
colour stand out too much from the rest of the text, but it’s
not – while it might make the design look nicer, it makes it far less
usable. Use a clearly contrasting colour for links, andpreferably
underline them.
7. Unlabelled Email Links. It’s a very bad idea to ever use a
link that will send email (a mailto link) without clearly marking it
with the word ‘email’. If you just make clicking people’s names
send email, you’ll annoy visitors who just clicked wanting to
find out more about the person.
8. Broken Links. You’ve got to check all your links regularly to
make sure that they all still work. There’s nothing worse than
finding a site that looks useful, only to find that it hasn’t been
updated in years and none of the links work any more. Yes, a website
does mostly run itself after a while, but that doesn’t mean that you
should neglect the essential maintenance it needs from time to time.
9. Strange Fonts. Stick to the most common web fonts: that’s
pretty much just Arial, Georgia, Tahoma and Verdana. If you’re using
more obscure fonts, then most visitors probably won’t have them –
and the ones that do will find your text hard to read. The only time
you should use non-standard fonts is in your logo or in headings, if they
are displayed as an image.
10. Badly-sized Text. It’s important to keep your text around
the standard size (preferably just below). Making text too big or
too small makes it hard to read and annoying for many visitors. The
best thing you can do is use relative text sizing (not pixels) that
allows the browser to respect the user’s preferred text size. You
might also consider offering buttons on your site to decrease or increase
the size.
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Guest Article: Business Web Page Design Tips
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Business web page design is an important consideration when you
are starting your business. There are many options and styles
and it can be confusing. What you need to remember though is,
regardless of the style you choose, your business web page
design must promote your brand.
Business Web Page Design Dos and Don’ts
To be effective your business web page design does not need to
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Design your business web page as an online brochure.
Use very simple, inexpensive shared hosting.
Do not use anything that has to do with Flash or graphics in
your business web page design. These things slow down the
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Make sure you have an email address that matches your company
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Branding is the key so all elements of your web page design
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The Bottom Line on Business Web Page Design
Business web page design is an extension of your brand. Do
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page design are coordinated including a matching email address
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page design - keep it simple and professional.
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