Comments on: 43 Web Design Mistakes You Should Avoid

By: Navya

Navya — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 09:40:44 +0000

The article covers a wide range of common mistakes that can hinder a website’s effectiveness, from cluttered layouts to slow load times. Overall, this is a highly recommended read for anyone looking to improve their web design skills and create a user-friendly website that stands out.

By: Manpreet Kaur

Manpreet Kaur — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 12:07:48 +0000

A slow-loading website can lead to a high bounce rate and decreased user engagement. To avoid this, it’s important to optimise your website’s images, minimise the use of heavy scripts and plugins, leverage caching, and choose a reliable hosting provider. You can also use tools to measure your website’s loading speed and identify areas for improvement.

By: Minerva Infotech

Minerva Infotech — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 11:07:49 +0000

Great list, must say.
In my opinion, ”poor accessibility” tends to become one of the common web design mistakes. The website should be accessible and inclusive at the same time. if there isn’t enough access to the website design, there is a high chance to miss out in terms of connecting with the target groups. This way, we will loose out a lot of traffic and conversions.

By: Nasrudheen

Nasrudheen — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 05:58:16 +0000

Good advice, Daniel Some of them will have to be used by me.

By: Danielon

Danielon — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:25:00 +0000

Long list, Daniel.

By: Michaelon

Michaelon — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:25:00 +0000

These are some really good points of things to avoid in website design. I remember back in the day when I created websites I would try to have audio automatically start in the background and not let the viewer control the music. I’d also manipulate their browser window and do a lot of other design flaws. Nowadays I am definitely getting away from that and getting better at being conscience of what the user/visitor actually wants to see.

By: Itachion

Itachion — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:54:00 +0000

I find websites that are full of ads are very annoying.

By: Sahil @iBlogneton

Sahil @iBlogneton — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:05:00 +0000

These are good points..
I thinks I should revamp my blog after reading this!!

By: medyumon

medyumon — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:32:00 +0000

I do have some problems with capital letters in a site. Not because people referring them as rude or over-powering, its the invisibility for that particular sentence which uses caps for all the letters. Use the capitals when necessary, but not all the time. Just a little opinion…..

By: Rahulon

Rahulon — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:09:00 +0000

I think this list should be carefully read by Joomla developers.

By: Danielon

Danielon — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 02:19:00 +0000

Very comprehensive list, Daniel.

By: Bingo Babeon

Bingo Babeon — Sun, 01 May 2011 19:20:00 +0000

Amazing list. Design is so important. You only have a few seconds before people make a judgement on your site. If it doesn’t look good they are leaving, and i don’t want that. Thanks again!

By: mfarooqon

mfarooqon — Sun, 01 May 2011 15:52:00 +0000

Great post!

By: Trudy Schwartz-Burrillon

Trudy Schwartz-Burrillon — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:12:00 +0000

AWESOME!
I have some work to do!
Some of the things we were taught about building sites in a web design class differs but everyone has their opinions and…

By: AngeloPCon

AngeloPCon — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:46:00 +0000

Wow! You would think that most would have picked up on “42. No spelling or grammatical mistakes”, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. It doesn’t even seem like the author heeded his own advice.

By: Sarahon

Sarahon — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 05:13:00 +0000

Despite feeling like I know what I’m doing reasonably well with web design, I decided to read this post just in case. There are a few things that I had though initially that I should change about my blog but forgot about, and this post reminded me. They are all pretty important, so thank you!

By: Umeshon

Umeshon — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:55:00 +0000

I used to do mistake no 5. I used to open each link in new window and guess what I realize myself that it is not good when I visit other blogs having same mistake. I returned to my blog and remove them all.

By: AndyD.Orgon

AndyD.Orgon — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 03:59:00 +0000

These tips are well-written and funny. My favorites are not to play music and warn about PDFs. No one wants to get startled by blaring speakers (remember the cheesy MIDI music?) or have the browsers freeze up.

By: Manieon

Manieon — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:33:00 +0000

>>Do not overuse Flash & Do not play music <<

By: Libbyon

Libbyon — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:01:00 +0000

I actually disagree with you about drop-down menus – I think they can make a navigation menu less cluttered and more organized. Especially when you have a large number of pages to link to, I think it is better to use a drop-down menu than to try to squeeze all of the links into the menu. Of course – if you are using a drop-down menu then the top navigation text must be very clear about what it’s submenus contain so that visitors can quickly find the links they are looking for… Anyways, this is a great article with a lot of good points!

By: wonderfoxon

wonderfoxon — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 05:36:00 +0000

Great post, I like your article and I think this is what I am looking for, I ‘m a web designer, I have encountered many problem as you said, after viewed your post, I must say : I learned too much from u. I will usually scan your web. Thans for sharing.

By: Rebeccaon

Rebeccaon — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:43:00 +0000

Hi thank you for this post, it is very helpful. I think using wordpress themes with clean format can avoid these mistakes and also avoid fancy graphics so that the user will know what your site is talking about and you must be direct to the point. Cheers and thanks for sharing.

By: key demelerion

key demelerion — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:36:00 +0000

Great post. I especially like the points about no music and making captcha readable. I dont know how many times Ive entered the wrong captcha word just because I couldnt read it. And music on a sitelets just say its a sure sign of an amateur: Hey! Look what I learned how to do!

By: Lauraon

Lauraon — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:02:00 +0000

I agree with everything except the table vs. CSS. I have been creating sites with tables and on every browser they work. I have visited sites created with CSS and have had ads and/or pictures appear over the text that I want to read!
If I designed a site for a client and then they viewed it from their browser and the pictures covered some of the text, they would surely be upset.
The issue seems to come up when I use Internet Explorer, which many of my clients use (and telling them to use a different browser makes me sound less skilled). While learning web design I was told many times to be backwards compatable. It seems the CSS designers don’t bother to make the CSS work in older browsers, or don’t test in every browser. The answer I get the most is “upgrade your browser”. Fine for me, but the reality is that a lot of surfers don’t bother to upgrade until they are forced to, and may not realize the issue is with their browser and not the website.
Even those who are telling everyone to use CSS has to admit there are some spacing issues. Why aren’t these solved yet?
I am in the process of learning CSS in the hopes that this issue will be fixed so I can start using it. I can see the advantages in it, I just want it to work in every browser out there.

By: Jess Willardon

Jess Willardon — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 11:37:00 +0000

As crazy as it sounds, its still amazes me how items like these still get requested – I had a client ask for the tag a little while ago, but happily enough doesn’t jive with IE so they decided not to ultimately use.

By: Joshu Thomas ( OC webmaster Blog)on

Joshu Thomas ( OC webmaster Blog)on — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:37:00 +0000

Basically the essence of things to avoid is do NOT over do Anything be it – ads, flash, tags, seo, links etc. But you can over do ONE thing – that is Unique content !! wishing all my fellow bloggers a problogger success !!

By: Laura Pruitt Designon

Laura Pruitt Designon — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:30:00 +0000

Thank you for this enlightening article. I am in the very beginning of my career in web design and am glad to read this! Very helpful.

By: digwriteron

digwriteron — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:18:00 +0000

Another common, yet rather overlooked mistake is in not allowing symbols in the name field of online forms. This potentially costly mistake could result in alienating customers with hyphenated last names. Even a big company like Procter & Gamble Canada has made this mistake.

By: Eamon Diamondon

Eamon Diamondon — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:15:00 +0000

Great post! I will apply this and implement as soon as I can.These tips are really helpful specially to beginners.

By: Jim Jurison

Jim Jurison — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:45:00 +0000

I know that this article was written a few years ago.

By: JPon

JPon — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:18:00 +0000

Looks like an old discussion, but just found it from a current article on smashingmagazine. Agree with all points, except for “never opening a new window automatically for the user” – sometimes opening a new browser window is necessary for the ease of functionality of a website. Most people still have no idea that they can choose to open a new browser window themselves and will instead go through the annoying process of having to click the back button several times after exploring a new link if they want to return to the previous site. I would say that 90% of the time not to do that, but sometimes it is a good idea. Also disagree with “not using dropdown nav” since there is limited realestate in the nav bar, I usually prefer dropdowns to organize the space, especially if the pages can be organized in categories.

By: magieon

magieon — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:41:00 +0000

Well said!
Good tips for web designers indeed. I personally agree with the statement “Do not use a homepage that just launches the real website: the smaller the number of steps required for the user to access your content, the better. ” specially when everybody is a busybody.
Thanks for sharing.

By: Martin Bullivanton

Martin Bullivanton — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:39:00 +0000

New to this discussion and I have a comment that’s maybe from a slightly different angle-I’m a professional artist (painter) and I also do some web design-for which I use the same skills. I would say a mistake is to neglect the overall visual impact of the colours plus layout plus images etc-partially helped by using grid models etc but often we talk in theses forums about functionality-a painting, of course has only one function-too look a certain way that causes people to linger and explore. That first visual impact of a site is so so important I feel, and web designers can learn much from visiting art galleries. I can spot a bad painter from the way he or she neglects the rules of composition-the same applieds to web pages-like usiong the rule of thirds, de-centring focal points, avoiding symmetrical divisions etc. What do people think of this point?

By: Marilynon

Marilynon — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:19:00 +0000

Agree with what you say, especially for the playing of audio in the background without the user consenting. Normally I will have10 open windows and not sure which one its coming from.

By: medyumon

medyumon — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:46:00 +0000

By: Danon

Danon — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:45:00 +0000

Thanks for sharing this excellent post. This is a great tutorial.
I also agree with you that placing pop-uos disracts users which may lead to losing traffic.
Another imposrtant aspect is to avoid Javascript links as they are not search engine friendly and will affect in your search engine result listing

By: Joshon

Joshon — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:41:00 +0000

Man I can’t agree with you more on both the audio and flashing text. The killer is that I have some old fashioned clients that INSIST that I put both blinking text and autoplaying audio on their sites.

By: Poltecon

Poltecon — Sat, 29 May 2010 11:23:00 +0000

Thank you! They are inspiring. I think it’s crucial that when we create a website to put the reader is in the top priority. And of course, providing quality content is probably the most important one. The content must be easy to understand and website must be easy to navigate. I think WordPress can be the best blogging or CMS system to create easy to navigate website contents.

By: Teknoloji Haberlerion

Teknoloji Haberlerion — Fri, 28 May 2010 09:08:00 +0000

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By: Antoonyon

Antoonyon — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:18:00 +0000

QUOTE:
[24. Do not blend advertising inside the content: blending advertising like Adsense units inside your content might increase your click-through rate on the short term. Over the long run, however, this will reduce your readership base. An annoyed visitor is a lost visitor.]

By: Reggae Bandon

Reggae Bandon — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:04:00 +0000

On Rule #10 what if your site is for a band?

By: Gebze Web Tasarmon

Gebze Web Tasarmon — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:58:00 +0000

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By: mirecekpon

mirecekpon — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:39:00 +0000

Point 27. is so much funny but realy true “Do not use FrontPage”

By: medyumon

medyumon — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:19:00 +0000

My concern is to Avoid the drop down menus. Sometimes, clients have so many sub menu in their website. And they dont want to much click when they want to go into it. How we can resolve this issue?

By: tatilon

tatilon — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:44:00 +0000

I kind of disagree with #43.
I often make the captcha as hard as possible and give an option to listen to the word. Works best so far!

By: Donny Veon

Donny Veon — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:35:00 +0000

Having been a webmaster for quite a few years, I can completely agree. I do agree with you Dostluk. This is a large list, but all of the tips given are extremely important in order to succeed online.

By: Karlilon

Karlilon — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:05:00 +0000

Thanks for this list Daniel. Personally I don’t see any problem with cloacking affiliate links. Surely those who are familiar with affiliate marketing would realize the link is cloaked. Those who are not familiar with affiliate marketing wouldn’t even bother with the link. At least this is how I see it.

By: Edon

Edon — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:12:00 +0000

Thank you i quickly fixed my errors

By: Dostlukon

Dostlukon — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:07:00 +0000

My head hurt reading through this list. Why must there be so much stuff to avoid doing?

By: iek gnderon

iek gnderon — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:54:00 +0000

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