Bad Web Site Design
Why are there so many bad web design still use today? Anyone that spends time online sees them everyday, and they drive you nuts! Below is some of the TOP-TEN list of the worst web design nightmare techniques.
Giant Pop Ups!! and Broken Back Buttons!! AHH!
You hate the site and just can’t hit the back button fast enough, wither it be 1 million pop ups in your face, opining up new windows, or hitting the back button and the site doesn’t allow you to leave. Omaha Web Design
Horizontal Scrolling
Web sites can really drive people crazy making them scroll left and right to read each line. I don’t know anybody that likes that. So why do so many sites have horizontal scrolling? It is a result of poor design, poor understanding of how 99% of websites scroll.
Slow Load Time Problems!!
Slow load time, is usually the single biggest problem for an e-commerce site.
When customers land on the site, if it takes 25 seconds to load, they will just bounce out of your site. Most visitors leave and find a faster site to purchase from AKA your competition.
Most often this is caused by: cheap web hosting on a large shared hosting environment, too many graphics, to large of graphics, no need to upload a 1000 x 1000 photo in a 250 x 250 spot, or poor coding. Omaha Web Design
Overuse of Banner Ads
When the site looked like the classified section of the back of a cheap magazine. Banner ads for casinos and XXX don’t belong on a sports equipment site.
Poor Spelling
Computers come with built in spell checkers. Why do some people just go out of their way not to use one? You are broadcasting your intelligence level to the world when you display your poor spelling on the Internet. Poor spelling = lose of customers
Lots of Moving Things
Banners flashing brightly, graphics twirling, words scrolling across the screen, with a string of fireworks chasing your mouse pointer. An Add that takes up half the screen if you mouse over it. Avoid all of these things.
Plenty of Music
Make sure your site cranks up some really loud, meaningless music, so you get everyone browsing the Internet at work in trouble. That is a super-fast way to make someone hit the back button. Don’t scare them off by blasting music for no reason. Omaha Web Design
No Contact Information
You have searched the site high and low and are ready to buy. But now, you can’t find how to buy it, or how to contact anyone for more information. Or the buy button doesn’t work. What is the site for then? No way to buy and no way to contact anyone. Did they forget an important part?
Garbage Sites
Yes, make sure you include 10,000 words related to products you don’t even carry, just so that I find you on the search engines and then waste my time looking all over your site for it. Trust me, I am not going to buy what you’re selling if you trick me to your site with items you don’t even carry. Nobody likes the bait and switch tatics. so just don’t do it.
