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to no design knowledge building sites. Some of these sites
turn out great, but many are flawed or have design no
nos. Sadly no one tells them they made design mistakes or
they do not believe/care what others say and do not know
that are killing their return traffic to their site.
As a fairly new Designermyself, I have made design no
nos over the years, but once I learned the rules, I learnedfrom these mistakes. Most of the mistakes I made were
minor ones. I was lucky enough to have taken intro to web design back in college.
Below is a list of Design no nos that everyone can avoid. You do not have to be a designer or
know much about design trends to avoid these mistakes. If you have made any of these mistakes
on your site, spend some time and fix them. Your readers will thank you for it.
1- Bad Color Choices
When designing or customizing a theme, use colors that complement each other. One thing to
remember is to use enough contrast in your complimentary colors that then you can easily read
the text. If you use a dark colored background with a dark text or a light background with a light
text color will make it very difficult to read.
Find the right colors for site can be hard, so use a color palette generator to generate your color
scheme. Once the generator creates all the complimentary colors, choose just a few of those on
your design. Use between three and five colors. Remember not to overdo it!
3 sites to help generate color pallets for your sites
ColorSchemeDesigner.com
ColorJack.com
ColorSchemer.com
2- Noisy BackgroundsLoud backgrounds with lots of patterns and colors can be distracting. To make thiingworse, some
might put a busy background image and put body / content text directly over it. This can be very
hard to read. As you can see from the image below you can not see all of the writing, and what
you can see of is hard to read.
One of the new trends in web design is to have a loud back ground. To help prevent against
background distractions, designers will use flashy backgrounds but they create a solid color for the
text and banner areas. This way, designers can showcase their design skills in the background and
their readers can still read the site content without issues.
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3- Too Many Ads
When designing a website, never make advertisements more important than your content. There
should always be more content than advertisement. Take a look at the top ranking and most
popular sites in your niche, in most cases these sites will placed their ads in a way that does not
hurt the content and annoy their readers. They almost never clutter up the pages with ads their
readers will never click on. They are selective with what they choose, they rotate their ads if they
have more ads then then what they can display, they will rotate the ads. Readers do not like
seeing ads, if they see a site loaded with ads, they tend to leave as fast they can. Having too
many ads on your site can also slow the load the times.
4- Unwanted Pop Ups
There is a time and a place for popups, but there is never a time when popups dominate and
randomly popup as you browse a website. If you are going to use ad popups, why not use it in a
good way? Use the popup to ask a new reader to subscribe to the newsletter, and let them know
if they get anything for subscribing. But make sure you set it to popup once a week and never ask
them on every new page they open. Designers can code in timers that will look for a cookie on
the readers computer and tell the code to pop the ad up only if there is not a cookie.The
designers can then configure this to pop once a week or just once. Me, personally I hate popups,but the newer ones that only pop once, they arent so bad and I can deal with those.
Its interesting topic, and there is a good article to read, Kikolani.com opened The Case For and
Against Popup Opt- In Forms.
Below is an example of a popup subscription offer from Famous Bloggers. Hesham uses a great
little plugin called PopUp Dominationto create and control the popup.
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5- Using Font the Wrong Way
Do not use crazy fonts in the body of the text. If you plan to add a fancy script to your tittles and
sub titles you may want to think about that carefully and understand what could happen to your
readers who cant read those scripts. To avoid any issues that could come up, use standard fonts
such as Arial, helvetic, Verdana, Goergia, or Times New Roman. These founts are found on most
computers. Not all computers have every font that can be found on the net. When a reader
comes across this issue the page loads funny and may load errors as well. They will consider this a
design flaw (and it is) land leave your site for something that is easier to read. Another issue that
needs to be pointed out is, some of the fancy scripts are hard to read, most of them areconsidered eye candy and should only be used in graphic design, and not body text or titles on a
website.
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6- Using Text Without Images
Just having text can be boring. Readers need to have a something break up the text. Having just
one image related to your text can help readers stay just a little longer and continue to read your
content. For me, finding the right picture for the topic can be hard. Based on advice I have been
given in the past is to find images that go with your topic. It doesnt have to be literal it can be
symbolic, or whatever you feel like. Try and keep it simple and somewhat related to your topic.
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7- No Content Formatting
A lot of times I come across sites that has large blocks of text and almost no formatting to the
content. This is bad design, to avoid this, break the text up into paragraphs, use titles when you
changing subjects, bullet points for quick reading and for key points. Implementing this type of
content formattingis easy on the eyes, makes it easy for readers to skim the articles and its good
for SEO.
8- Extra Small Fonts
When designing a site, do not use text under 12pt, anything less than that is to hard read.
Readers should not have to adjust their font size or add the web page setting to see everything
better.
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9- To Many Images and videos
Adding images and video can help add visual appeal to all the text, but do not add to many
images. If you add to many images and videos can slow the load time on your site, if you need to
add a lot of images, try storing your images on site such as Flickr and use thumbnails that link to
full-size images.
10- Heavy Flash Usage
Flash can add to a site, but if your whole site is nothing but flash, that isnt a good thing. Flash is
a resource hog. It slows to load and its not SEO friendly. Never use flash to create an intro.The
only sites that can get away intro with flash are movie sites. So if you are not building a site
around a movie, then there is no reason for it. Most people just skip it and go strait the content.
11- Music or video that loads automatically / no controls
Another major no no is, you should NEVER have music or video automatically play and have no
controls to turn it on or off. This is bad design; most readers hate it as much as I do. If readers
cant turn off the music or stop the video from playing, readers will get annoyed and leave the
site.
12- Poorly Designed Navigation
Poorly designed navigation is a site killer. If a reader cant navigate your site or its too hard to
figure out, readers are not going to stick around. Good site navigation should be at the top of
each page, and should be organized so that it all parts of the site are defined.
13- Link Color Does Not Change
When styling links, make sure the colors change, once that link has been visited. Readers need to
know what text are links and if they already visited that link. If links are designed in a way that
looks just like regular text or there is not a visible change to the link, this can cause confusion.
Make it easy for your readers change it up, even its just a slight color change, your users will be
able to tell whats a link and if they visited it.
14- Lack of Contact Information
One of the most annoying things you can do, is not have a contact page or even adding this
information somewhere easy for your readers to find. If you are selling products and services, its
even more important to have a way for your customers get in contact with you. You could easily
loose a sale because they couldnt reach you or thought your site might be a scam site because
they cannot get in contact with you.
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bryan @bwet4ever
(14 comments) August 18, 2010 at 7:01 am
Hey Element, You got a good list there. Very comprehensive. I think I like to add another point
to the list there if you dont mind. What about clutter and orientation of things on your website.
You mentioned something about navigation and the about menu to help visitors navigate around
and find info. I think the way your info is displayed is also important. Not too messy or cluttered.
Ease of use when you are surfing around your website.
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C5 @ceefive
(1 comments) August 17, 2010 at 8:38 pm
I guess I have to put more effort on including pics. For me, though, I prefer sites that are
functional. I also tend to leave out sites that automatically plays music, especially if its noisy.
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Mike @marketi fyblog
(15 comments) August 17, 2010 at 11:49 am
Pop-ups are my concern as well because obviously, it keeps irritating me.
Sometimes I need to fill in just because thats the only way to let it disappear.
And I think the reason why opt -in rate increase is that people want it to disappear, not irritating
them anymore.
Any thoughts?
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element321 @element321
(200 comments) August 18, 2010 at 12:41 am
Mike, you make a great point, that people may sign up, just to get the stupid things
to go away. Website owners need to add this to list, to think about when adding a
popup campaign to their site.
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Patrick from Reverse Phone Lookup (9 comments) August 17, 2010 at 4:10 am
At the beginning its all about trial and error.To get that perfect site you need to go
through a lot of experiments to find out what exactly suits your users.Yes but you have laid
some basic points like avoiding too many ads,videos,pictures,too many pop ups etc.These may
turn off your readers.
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element321 @element321
(200 comments) August 18, 2010 at 12:39 am
Patrick, you are right its about trial and error. If you build a site that you like to much
but dont care what your readers think or listen to web designers, readers and
anyone willing to help, then your site will fail.
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element3 @element321
(1 comments) August 16, 2010 at 11:52 pm
Thanks everyone for replying. I will reply back and answer any questions I can as soon as I can.
I just got back from a trip out of state where I did not have have access to the internet or cell
coverage.
Thanks again guys
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Hieu Martin f rom Blog Tips @hvq168
(70 comments) August 16, 2010 at 10:01 pm
With me the important is content then design. alway try design the best for my blog
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Laura Davis from Checking Accounts @gobankingrates
(50 comments) August 16, 2010 at 12:57 pm
Great suggestions! Ive seen a lot of mistakes on new (and even established) sites that youve
covered with this post. Thanks for showing us how its done!
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element321 @element321
(200 comments) August 18, 2010 at 12:37 am
Thanks Laura for stopping by and commenting.
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Dennis Edell fr om Direct Sales Market ing @DennisEdell
(235 comments) August 16, 2010 at 11:34 am
*sigh* those friggin images; always forgotten! Good thing Im starting over.
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element321 @element321
(200 comments) August 18, 2010 at 12:36 am
Dennis,
Thanks for stopping by and commenting. If you have any questions, let me know
cant to see what your new design is going to look like.
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Dennis Edell f rom Direct Sales Marketi ng @DennisEdell
(235 comments) August 18, 2010 at 10:29 am
DE.com isnt getting a new design, I just need to finish filling in; I got way
sidetracked on that.
When I said, starting over I meant content, hopefully remembering images
this time.
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Luqman from Domain name registration @mothersland
(15 comments) August 16, 2010 at 11:20 am
There is lots of self webdesign website on the web today, that I wonder how they manage to
design such beautiful and friendly site. But I come to know that, there are lots of this type of
post and tutorials online that can help one to design a nice website. This post is very useful and
it correct some of the mistake self webdesigner and some professionals make at times.
element321 @element321
(200 comments) August 18, 2010 at 12:35 am
Thanks Lugmans,
So true. Just the other day, I took a look at professionally designed website with
several design flaws. I wonder if they were put there because the website owner
wanted them to put a design feature that was a no no or if they simply didnt know
better.
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Kharim from WebMaster-Success.com @babyboykharim
(7 comments) August 16, 2010 at 11:16 am
This is a really great post. Really excellent points brought out here.
These are things that turns away visitors and readers from our blog and if we dont correct these
mistakes then not just our blog needs serious help but also the creator of the blog
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element321 @element321
(200 comments) August 18, 2010 at 12:32 am
Thanks Kharim,
You make a great point about the creator. I have seen several sites that refuse to
change their design flaws. And yet they wonder why their site is ghost town.
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Kharim from WebMaster-Success.com @babyboykharim
(7 comments) August 18, 2010 at 8:49 am
Thats true element lol
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Andreas from Online Advertising @linknami
(1 comments) August 16, 2010 at 10:29 am
For me, more important than the actual content, is to make sure that the design is clean and the
navigation structure is easy to follow.
element321 @element321
(200 comments) August 18, 2010 at 12:30 am
Great point Andreas,
I tend to not to stick around a site that doesnt have the a clean design and easy nav
structure. Sites with those issues, can get annoying and it takes to long to find what
you are looking for
element321s last blog ..Stress
Kok Siong from Cancer Research @cks1988
(2 comments) August 16, 2010 at 6:29 am
I do not like the pop up especially for the pop up advertisement. It is irritating. I seldom
subscribe to the blog that using pop up ads. The website that has too many images will load very
slow too.
Kok Siong @ Cancer Researchs last blog .. 5 Things I Wish to Learn in Singapore for Leukemia
Cytogenetics
element321 @element321
(200 comments) August 18, 2010 at 12:29 am
Kok,
I almost never subscribe to these popups.
Sites with a lot of images do load slow. I am actually about to move all my images to
a offsite image server that is design to serve linked images very quickly. Sites thats
have a lot of images, should think about implementing this type of design.
element321s last blog ..21 Killer Examples of Afro Samurai Fan Art
George Serradinho @gfserradinho
(7 comments) August 16, 2010 at 1:57 am
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I personally hate pop ups and they irritate me a lot. I also hate flash sites as it always takes time
to load and then I just leave the site and move on.
element321 @element321
(200 comments) August 18, 2010 at 12:26 am
I do the same. I still dont know why site still build with flash. Funny I am taking a
flash class next semester and I hate view sites made from flash. However, Flash does
have its place, but it should be limited and not used for entire site!
element321s last blog ..What is Tycoon Blogger
Nea | Self I mprovement Saga @nealoa
(1 comments) August 15, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Great post! When I first started blogging I didnt realize the importance of content formatting. It
really does make it hard to catch someones interest when theres just a long stream of text.
Lesson learned.
Nea | Self Improvement Sagas last blog ..Do You Love and Value Yourself Unconditionally?
element321 @element321
(200 comments) August 18, 2010 at 12:24 am
I had the same issue when starting out. With web design, I was fine, but for blogging
and creating new articles, I treated like writting for a college paper. No one wants to
read that style of writing, not even a college professor.
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TJ McDowell from Photographer Education Blog(12 comments)
August 15, 2010 at 3:03 pm
So Im trying to understand your suggestion on changing font for visited links. To me, I usually
feel that a design looks more professional if all the links look identical. What are your thoughts?
TJ McDowell@Photographer Education Blogs last blog ..Photography Startup Going Pro
element321 @element321(200 comments) August 18, 2010 at 12:23 am
Links should be identical and match every other link on your site. By different I
mean, Link needs to link different from the string of text that isnt not a link. If they
are same and their is no different no link text and link text, a use will get annoyed
and cant find there way around the site. That also leads to bad navigation as well.
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I mran Yousaf @bloggingjunkie
(6 comments) August 15, 2010 at 2:43 pm
I really dislike Pop ups that forces you to click them and have no close option. Second thing is
hard to read fonts. I dont know whats fun of using such fonts in web sites which keep readers
from reading t
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