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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


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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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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Patrick, you are right its about trial and error. If you build a site that you like to much

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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


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


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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Thanks Laura for stopping by and commenting.


Dennis Edell fr om Direct Sales Market ing @DennisEdell


*sigh* those friggin images; always forgotten! Good thing Im starting over.

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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


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


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.



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.


Kharim from WebMaster-Success.com @babyboykharim


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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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


Thats true element lol

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Andreas from Online Advertising @linknami


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.



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

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Kok Siong from Cancer Research @cks1988


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.

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Cytogenetics



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.


George Serradinho @gfserradinho

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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.



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!

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Nea | Self I mprovement Saga @nealoa


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.

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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?

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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 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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