Website design is the most important for the business to stay competitive in the online world. So it becomes more important to have a well-designed website. But you also have to keep in mind that a badly designed website can ruin your business reputation in the online world.
You should avoid these points to make a well-designed website
1. Website Text
Many of us think that a good web design is all about graphics, colors, pixels etc. But we should know that all these are secondary things. Text ate the primary things of any website. If you don’t have aligned text properly or you are using weird texts. Keep in mind that text represents the value of your website.
Most common example of bad text on a website:
- Use very small text that is difficult to read. eg : 9px or lower.
- Use of illegible fonts such as those fonts that are not understood by everyone.
- Use of weird text color or use high contrast for text.
- Unspecified use of the underline tag on the text.
- The written paragraph in all caps or bold tag.
2. Bad Website Navigation
Navigation is the most important element of a website. A good navigation always leads to create a good user experience. If the users find the bad navigation. Then they will not remain active on the site for long.
Bad Navigation can includes
- Poor navigation i.e nav bar is separated into different locations on a website.
- Unclear navigation i.e some links are active some are not.
- complicated navigation i.e some links are not connected with the index page.
- The site with lots of broken links.
- Endless scrolling on mobile devices.
- No search bar in the navigation bar.
3. Bad Overall Design
Now a day people want the ease to access the Website on any platform. You can’t be restricted them to use your site on certain browser or devices. If you do so then the potential visitors will get out of your site and will never back again.
The most Common Bad design could include
- Websites that can be accessed from the certain browser.
- Websites that are not responsive to mobile devices.
- Use of frames.
- Side-scrolling to view the full content in a view.
4. Website Backgrounds
Background make the first impression on the users’ mind. Many users leave the site immediately when they find an inappropriate background. Website background helps other contents to make an impression on the user’s mind.
A bad website Website background includes
- The distracting or too colorful background that takes the attention away from the content.
- The color of the background is same as the color of the text that makes the text difficult to read.
- inappropriate use of background image.
5. Website Links
Every site has links that are referencing the content on the other side. If your links are referencing to a nonexisting site then it will make a bad impression on your site.
There are few things we should avoid in website links.
- Don’t link your site to dead links or broken links.
- Links that aren’t seen clearly due to bad contrast.
- Links that are the same color as your text.
6. Images
We know that images speak more than a paragraph. So inappropriate use of images can cause a really big problem that you would not except. If you use high-quality images without compression then it will increase your website loading time.
The main reason behind the wrong use of images.
- Larger images or high-quality images that take the longest time to load.
- Images that are not responsive.
- Use of images without Alt tags.
- Use of thumbnail images.
7. Useless Website Junk
Many people use un appropriate contents on their site. All these contents known as website junks.
There are few types of junks a website can create.
- Excessive use of adverts.
- unnecessary use of your certification on every page of the site.
- Visitor counter.
- The huge number of links in the sidebar.
- Use of flashes.
- Automatically play a video when you navigate or open a page.
Conclusion
We have discussed major points that reflect your web design. if you ignore all these points then your site could be lost the huge number of visitors. So try to keep in mind all these points when creating a Website and make a good impression in user’s mind.