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Have you ever wondered about the problems with your website? Here are some points that you need to stop immediately if you have in your website. These might be hindering your website’s productivity.TRANSCRIPT

9 Major Web Design Mistakes You Need to
Stop Immediately
The design of your website has a lot to do for attracting your visitors,
your customers and mainly the search engines. Websites that have
proper layout designs along with perfect content on their webpages
will rank higher in the search engines. But when beginners start
working, they generally make mistakes for their site using HTML and
CSS effects. If you are using your tags wrong you will receive a bad
user experience.
Here we will discuss some crucial points that that need to be stopped
immediately if present in the website design.


Content is Not Clear
If the content on your website is a good quality content but
is not easy to read or is not very clear then it would be of no
use. What is the use of writing informative and good quality
content when the content is not visible to your readers? It
might be because the color combination that you have used
is not good. If you are using light coloured content over light
coloured background, you cannot attract visitors on it.
Always use a light coloured background and dark coloured
fonts. It always looks nice and attracts your visitors easily.
Clean and simple text on your homepage in the central area
which could be easily visible will only get you potential
customers and permanent clients.


Over advertising
Advertising always irritates your visitors, especially when
they are browsing through something important. These
disturbing advertisements can make your visitors annoyed
and they will leave your website before even landing to the
home page. If you want to use ads always make sure that
you are using ads that are beneficial for you. Do not take any
chance. It is never worthy to earn from ads at the cost of the
customer.


Complicated Graphics
We always think to give our customers the best. For
providing them with the best we always provide them more
than required. Like it always looks good to have flash
designs on your website, cute gifs on your page has always
been a great idea but avoid the draw. Complex designs
might take away the content from your website and might
annoy your visitors and in result they will navigate from your
site to some other website.
The cleaner the website the easier it is to understand for the
readers. If your page contains more gigabytes then it is
better o remove it because it will take a little long to get
loaded and will make your visitors move away.


Pop Ups
Like advertising, Pop Ups are also irritating and they force
visitors unnecessarily to juggle the multiple windows and
pages rather than simply hitting the back button to return to
the pages where they already were. Many people use pop-up
block function on in their browser which means that they
either have to approach each and every pop up site thrown
at them. With all such pop ups the visitor generally miss the
useful content on the website. One should always avoid
using such pop ups because these advertisements generally
contain dangerous spam.


Complicated Navigation
Whether it is your menu, drop down menu or your website is
having no menu at all try to provide easy content to your
visitors for what they are looking for. Do not make your
visitors struggle hard for finding the content they are looking
for. It should be easy for your customer to navigate your
website. You need very simple and menu for your website to
make users feel that yes they are at the right place. Do not
shove everything on your homepage. Leave something for
inner pages too. Nobody go through a long page and nobody
wants to read huge blocks. This thing will only force your
visitors to move to the back button.


Avoid Automatic Music
If your website is a music website and have songs in it then
do not play songs randomly. It should not happen that a
visitor opens your website and he/she is welcomed by a
song. You have to decide when to play them. The best idea is
to place a play button on the website and allow your users to
listen to the songs. They will play their selves if they want to
listen.


Do not make use of badges in excess
When you use badges in large numbers it will make your
website look very fussy. It will make them feel that you are
promoting your website on your own very much. If you have
a list of badges and you want to show it to your visitors and
customers then try to fix few badges around your website
and then place the rest of the badges inside the About Us
page.


Do Not make use of HTML tables but use
CSS
Using HTML Tables is old fashioned now. One must grow
with the technology. Consider using CSS in your web pages
instead of using HTML tables. These CSS sheets are much
faster than the Hyper Text Markup Language. CSS is
considered as a much better layout as compared to HTML.
CSS is used for formatting the content structure.
HTML will enable you to have a webpage into your browser
regardless of how it will look like but CSS will make it more
beautiful.


Do not use CAPTCHA Filtering
Having Captcha on your website always create problems for
the visitors. So it is always advised not to use Captcha on
your website. In case if it is compulsory to use Captcha for
your website specially for stopping the spam comments or
the email subscriptions then make sure that the words and
the numbers are readable on it.

If you keep all these things
in mind and stay away from
all these web design
mistakes it will help you in
creating a simple, user-
friendly and clean
experience for the visitors
of your website. Making
your content clear and
readable gives your visitors
an incentive to return. They
will definitely focus on the
purpose of your website but
not on any designs or flaws.
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Written by Kristy Bernales | @kristybernales | webdesignxperts.com.au