People who design their own websites instead of employing a web design company often make the same mistakes. Mistakes that you should avoid making include the following…
Do not center all your text and everything else on the web pages, because it looks amateurish. Books and magazines usually have the text running from left to right, beginning at the left margin, and people are used to that format. When visitors are faced with a large amount of centered text, they think it looks odd and may click on their web browser’s back button because they simply are not used to the look of large chunks of text which has been centered.
Do not use background music on your website because it will mean that your site will take a lot longer to load and it is hard to choose music that will appeal to everyone. Your visitors might even leave if the music playing while they are waiting for your site to load is displeasing and they feel they are being forced to listen to it. A better option if you must have music on your site is to have a noticeable play button at the top of the pages that the visitors can use to start and stop the music
Do not rely on JavaScript for any essential parts of your website design because approximately 20% of web users either cannot run JavaScript or choose not to. Any problems which a visitor to your site encounters sends a clear message to them that you are not a real professional who takes the time to fix the problems or update the material you are presenting. The use of JavaScript, then, means that you might lose twenty percent of your visitors before they have looked over the content of your web pages.
Do not design a full flash website if you want high rankings in search engines because search engines, not being able to read the content on flash websites, tend not to rank these types of sites as highly as mainly text and image based sites. You can use flash, but use it sparingly, and be sure that you also include a large amount of text on your site. If you ignore this advice then you will hardly get any visitors from Google, Yahoo and Bing, which are the best sources of getting visitors to your website.
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