eBook Bounty Times eZine Issue No. 28

July 15, 2007 by eBookBounty · Leave a Comment
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Welcome to your next issue of
“EBOOKBOUNTY TIMES EZINE”
“Helping You Succeed In Your Internet Business”

July 15, 2007 Issue #28
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FEATURE ARTICLE - 5 Ways to Avoid the 1998 Look
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Author: Keith Bowman of eBookBounty.com

If you’ve looked around at a few websites, you might have noticed
that many of them look absolutely terrible. In many cases, this is
because they were produced in the early days of the web’s
mainstream popularity, but they haven’t been maintained or updated
since. The chances are that their creators have never even looked
at them in a modern browser, and don’t realise just how bad they
look now. These websites have an affliction I like to call the
‘1998 look’ – but, unfortunately for you, even new sites aren’t
altogether immune to it. Here, then, are five ways to avoid
becoming a victim.

1. Don’t Use Animated GIFs.

The animated GIF is dead. It was a charming idea, once, letting
us include animations on our pages as easily as normal graphics.
Now, though, it looks extremely dated thanks to the small number
of colours used, not to mention jarring and out-of-place. It’s
even worse if you use one of those early-web ’stock animations’,
like that spinning @ symbol to represent sending email – there
are very few things that look more amateurish.

If you don’t want to look like you don’t know what you’re doing,
stay away from animated GIFs.

2. Text in Graphics.

Unless it’s your logo or possibly a heading, don’t type text
in Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, save it as an image, and then
put it on your site. It’s supremely silly, and gives you no
benefit whatsoever – not only does it make the text take much
longer to download, but it also stops people from selecting
it or doing anything else they might want to do with it. Not
to mention that text created this way is usually aligned badly
and compressed so that it looks even worse than it would usually.

Keep your text as plain text, and use graphics for pictures.
Text as a graphic is almost always bad.

3. Bad Backgrounds.

It’s amazing that people still do it, but there are plenty of
websites out there still with absolutely disastrous backgrounds.
Either they’ll have a colour that doesn’t provide enough
contrast with the text, making the text unreadable, or, even
worse, they’ll have a small pattern, tiled to fill the entire
background. Wallpaper-style patterns are one of the most 1998
things in existence, and instantly make your website look like
a joke, not to mention often making it entirely unusable.

So what should you use as a background colour? In almost all
cases, the answer to the question is white – but, if you really
want a colour, make sure it’s a restrained background colour
that people can still read your text over. If you’re using a
pattern, don’t repeat it more than once.

4. System Requirements.

Listing system requirements on your website is no longer
fashionable, and thank goodness for that. In the bad old days,
sites would write things like “best viewed at 800×600 using
Internet Explorer 4″. Did they really think people were going
to switch, just to view their website? It acted like a
disclaimer, saying they couldn’t be bothered to make the site
look good for everyone, and anyone using something unusual had
no right to complain. It was, quite simply, terrible.

The end of the Internet Explorer/Netscape war thankfully
consigned these messages to history, for the most part, but
there are still some sites that have them. Don’t let your
site be one – it does nothing but make you look hopelessly
out of touch.

5. Open in New Window.

Finally, there’s this one, back from the days when graphic
designers were just starting to get to grips with the web
and wanted exact control over everything, including the size
of the web browser. Going to a site would give you a message
like ‘click here to launch’, and the site would then try to
open a new window automatically, with none of the browser’s toolbars.

This technique has always been bad (it takes away too much control
from the user), but it’s even worse now that so many users have
pop-up blockers thanks to the abuse of pop-ups for advertising.
If you design your site this way, many people will have trouble
seeing it, including people with the latest version of Internet
Explorer. Don’t do it.

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