Ten most popular design mistakes.
As a webmaster, you want to save your visitors, make sure that they come back again and again. Below are ten typical mistakes made by webmasters that can cause the irretrievable loss of site visitors.
1) Poor color selection
One of the most important things to remember when designing a website is simplicity. “Much” does not mean “better.” In theory, the color palette of your site should contain no more than three colors. Also, do not forget that the text should be well distinguishable from the background of the page. There is nothing worse than reading yellow text on a pink background. Perhaps it looks great to you, but visitors to your site will not appreciate this “zest”.
2) intricate navigation
If visitors cannot find what they need on your site, they are trivial ... leave. Site navigation should be logical and consistent on every page. Studies have shown that visitors prefer to see the navigation menu on the left and right sides of their monitor.
3) Various fonts.
Your navigation is great - don't forget to use the same font style and size. If your homepage is using the Arial font of the 10th size, then make sure that on other pages you use the same font of the same size. Of course, there are exceptions to the rules, but, preferably, it is not to amuse yourself - it is better to adhere to the chosen standard.
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4) Long paragraphs
This is a very common mistake that many webmasters make.
To make the page easy to view, you need to remember to divide it into parts and use subtitles. Most people skim through the page to find what they need. If your paragraphs are small and divided by logical headings, this will make finding the information you need easier.
5) Invalid or missing contact information
Do not force people to persistently seek contact information, especially if you are selling things or services. Make sure that contact information is available from each and every page of the site. Unavailable or vague contact information causes people to doubt you and therefore deal with you.
6) Long page load
If your page does not have time to load in 10 seconds, then it is worth thinking about its “fat content”. Check out the graphics. Is she too much? Maybe it is necessary to change its size? Use JPEG as a format for saturated colors, and choose GIF for monotonous pictures. Remember that animated graphics terribly slow down the page load time - do not use it unnecessarily.
7) Missing Meta Tags
Meta tags do not affect the display of the page, but are used by search engines. Although now meta tags do not greatly affect the search results, it’s still not worth refusing to use them - some search engines still use this method of searching pages.
8) Using Frames
Frames are horror. Many search engines do not index pages with frames. Frames do not allow visitors to bookmark the page as it is displayed. And because of the frames there are problems with printing. In general, frames - disgusting thing: (
9) Scrolling Text
Perhaps it looks cool, but you should not abuse it. Despite the fact that the idea of ​​a scrolling text is interesting, many people don’t think so (comment of translator: I don’t think so either). If you decide to use scrolling text, think a thousand times whether it is necessary, whether it will make your page more valuable, more beautiful. Do not forget that this thing does not work everywhere. The main thing - do not go too far.
Do not force readers to wait forever until your message “crawls” through the monitor screen - use scrolling text only in simple messages or, possibly, in subtitles.
10) Bad resolution
The average user has a resolution of 800 x 600 pixels (note of the translator: in my opinion, now the average resolution is 1024 x 768, but essentially this does not change at all). So if you sharpen your site for a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels or higher, take into account the fact that many will have to scroll the page to the left and right. I do not know about you, but this fact simply kills me.
If you want your page to display correctly in all resolutions, you must use tables with a width setting as a percentage of the screen resolution, discarding the use of a fixed pixel value.
Original: best-articles.org
1) Poor color selection
One of the most important things to remember when designing a website is simplicity. “Much” does not mean “better.” In theory, the color palette of your site should contain no more than three colors. Also, do not forget that the text should be well distinguishable from the background of the page. There is nothing worse than reading yellow text on a pink background. Perhaps it looks great to you, but visitors to your site will not appreciate this “zest”.
2) intricate navigation
If visitors cannot find what they need on your site, they are trivial ... leave. Site navigation should be logical and consistent on every page. Studies have shown that visitors prefer to see the navigation menu on the left and right sides of their monitor.
3) Various fonts.
Your navigation is great - don't forget to use the same font style and size. If your homepage is using the Arial font of the 10th size, then make sure that on other pages you use the same font of the same size. Of course, there are exceptions to the rules, but, preferably, it is not to amuse yourself - it is better to adhere to the chosen standard.
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4) Long paragraphs
This is a very common mistake that many webmasters make.
To make the page easy to view, you need to remember to divide it into parts and use subtitles. Most people skim through the page to find what they need. If your paragraphs are small and divided by logical headings, this will make finding the information you need easier.
5) Invalid or missing contact information
Do not force people to persistently seek contact information, especially if you are selling things or services. Make sure that contact information is available from each and every page of the site. Unavailable or vague contact information causes people to doubt you and therefore deal with you.
6) Long page load
If your page does not have time to load in 10 seconds, then it is worth thinking about its “fat content”. Check out the graphics. Is she too much? Maybe it is necessary to change its size? Use JPEG as a format for saturated colors, and choose GIF for monotonous pictures. Remember that animated graphics terribly slow down the page load time - do not use it unnecessarily.
7) Missing Meta Tags
Meta tags do not affect the display of the page, but are used by search engines. Although now meta tags do not greatly affect the search results, it’s still not worth refusing to use them - some search engines still use this method of searching pages.
8) Using Frames
Frames are horror. Many search engines do not index pages with frames. Frames do not allow visitors to bookmark the page as it is displayed. And because of the frames there are problems with printing. In general, frames - disgusting thing: (
9) Scrolling Text
Perhaps it looks cool, but you should not abuse it. Despite the fact that the idea of ​​a scrolling text is interesting, many people don’t think so (comment of translator: I don’t think so either). If you decide to use scrolling text, think a thousand times whether it is necessary, whether it will make your page more valuable, more beautiful. Do not forget that this thing does not work everywhere. The main thing - do not go too far.
Do not force readers to wait forever until your message “crawls” through the monitor screen - use scrolling text only in simple messages or, possibly, in subtitles.
10) Bad resolution
The average user has a resolution of 800 x 600 pixels (note of the translator: in my opinion, now the average resolution is 1024 x 768, but essentially this does not change at all). So if you sharpen your site for a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels or higher, take into account the fact that many will have to scroll the page to the left and right. I do not know about you, but this fact simply kills me.
If you want your page to display correctly in all resolutions, you must use tables with a width setting as a percentage of the screen resolution, discarding the use of a fixed pixel value.
Original: best-articles.org
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/3400/
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