Web Design That Drive Away Your Visitors
10 things to avoid when create a website, learn what what not to do, so that you can create a Web site that people love and stick with for a long time.
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More ads than contents
You might think that the ads serve a purpose, if there are more ads than actual content, your visitors will notice and not stick around. And what good are ads if no one is there to read them?
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Use sound on a business site
Sound is not a good idea if you are trying to attract business people to your website. Many people browse the Web from their offices, and sudden music (especially the tinny, mechanical wav files on most Web sites) quickly reveal that they are not necessarily working.
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Too many images
Images slow down your page loading, and lots of images mean that your page can load in minutes instead of seconds. This gives your visitors plenty of time to head to Google and find a faster site.
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Do not maintain your website regularly
If you are unable to update your website with new information daily, you should at least update it weekly or perhaps rotate what is displayed daily, without adding new content. A website with outdated information or errors seems like a site that no one cares about. So why should your visitors?
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Poor navigation on your website
Navigation is one of the most crucial parts of your website. If your visitors have to be you to understand how to get around your website, chances are they won't. You should constantly re-visiting it to make it better and more intuitive for your visitors, otherwise you are losing them to some other site that is easier to find things in.
6. Require too much information
Requiring too much information in order to gain access to the website doesn't convince people to give it to you, instead, they leave and don't return.
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Embed too many tables
Modern browsers will now display the site as best they can before all the tables load, but the layout you've spent hours developing will take minutes to completely render. The more tables you nest, the slower your page will load and that's time your visitors will spend elsewhere.
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Too cutting edge
Put up the most innovative and new technologies on a Web page may look great but these can often cause problems for the visitors. Pages that crash browsers or are simply too intensive for the customers' systems do not encourage repeat visits.
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No reply to your visitors
If your visitors contact you or indicate through stats that they are interested in a specific topic, you should avoid that topic completely. This will insure that your readers will not find what they want and so won't come back.
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Crash your visitors' browsers
This is often caused by poorly written JavaScript or Java. Nothing makes a visitor want to avoid your site like a spectacular crash.
