10 Most Common Mistakes Made By Webmasters (Site Owners)
I have made some of these mistakes myself so I want to pass on what is have learned to help others create easy website for the viewers.
1) URL/E-mail Names
This goes on the theme of trust really. Many small business like to set shops up on service providers like freewebs, geocites,yahoo. Those sites will usually supply you with a subdomain name like yoursite.serviceprovider.com. Instead of having a service provided name you should have a regular domain name like yoursite.com. I know I would rather buy or visit someones site that has a regular domain name than a subdomain name of a company.
2) Slow Site Pages
No one like to wait all day waiting for thier favorite site to load. I your site take more than 20 seconds to load over a 28.8K modem, you run the risk of losing visitors. The easiest way to make your site faster is by optimizing your pictures with programs like Photoshop. The size of individual graphics should be no more than 10K.
3) Banners
Although banners can bring great loads of traffic to your site too many of them may be as hassle. It is ok to have one banner but if you have two or three your site will begin to look cheap and too busy. Just slow it down and organize your site.
4) Background Noise
You may think adding things in the background to spruce up the design is good but that may not always be the truth. Many site have wild crazy distracting background designs. These are bad because it is interfering the message your site is trying to project to the viewer. It may also give them a headache.
5) Look The Same
Make sure your site looks the same on Netscape as it does on Internet Explorer. Many other browers are very similar to these two. Mozilla is an exsample, it is like Netscape. Test yours on both before going public.
6) Easy Navigation
Make your site easy to navigate. Some web site formats are far too confusing, have dead-end pages, and have sections that are like mazes. When isitors get lost they get mad and may cause a lost sales/traffic. Make sure that every page on your site is linked back to your homepage and contact information page.
7) Bad Searchs Engines
The literal search engines reduce usability in that they’re unable to handle typos, plurals, hyphens, and other variants of the query terms. New searches should be able to handle these problems becuase they are hard for the young and old.
Not Changing the Color of Visited Links
Knowing where you have been on a website is alway good. No more back tracking. If you change the colors of the visited links from the unvisited links you can easily solve this problem. These benefits will help users to tell the difference between visited and unvisited links because the site shows them in different colors.
9) Opening New Browser Windows
No one likes to play astroids while browsing on the internet. New windows that pop up out of the ordinary can become very annoying. Web developers open new windows on hopes that it keeps users on their site, but realistically the strategy is self-defeating. Don’t pollute my screen with any more windows, thanks.
10) Not Answering Users’ Questions
Don’t ignore your visitors. This will reduce the traffic to your site becuase of an unanswered question. The biggest problem is not listing a price or description of something. That will make your viewer go insane.
And Don’t Forget to turn off smilies, or else your 8 th point would be a smilie
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Thats it.And if you think there are more.Feel free to comment.
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