Top 5 Bad Website Design Ideas To Avoid.

Last Updated (Wednesday, 31 December 1969 15:59) Written by Dhruv Patel Saturday, 07 November 2009 23:57

If you are new to the online world and are planning to build your website here are top 5 bad website design ideas you want to stay away from.

If you are new to the online world and are planning to build your website here are top 5 bad website design ideas you want to stay away from.

Firstly, refrain from too many website colors. In grade school we were told blue or black ink only when writing out our assignments. Our teachers did not want to have eye strain from wild lime and fire engine red ink. Your website visitor feels the same way. Multi colors might work for modern art, but if you overload your website with the colors of the rainbow she will leave quickly and not return.

Second, if you do not have a way to capture your visitor's contact information you are missing a great opportunity. You might have the most interesting compelling website around but chances are your visitor will not be back. Even if he or she book marks your site, it might be a long time if they ever come back. There are simply too many other websites to visit.

Have a screen capture page where people can enter their email adress, and home address if you can get it. Although do not make the home address a required field in the submit box. If you get it great, but make sure you get the email address. And always ask for their primary email address. People have throw away email addresses and you do not want your messages ending up there. Then set up your auto responder to contact them and invite them back to your website. Of course you want them to have a reason to come back.

Third, you must assume that all of your visitors still surf the web using dial up. If you have large graphic files that take all day to download your visitors will leave in frustration. Make sure your website loads quickly. Keep the size of your graphic files to a bear minimum.

Fourthly, include the small print. Take a look at the bottom of the home page of most webpages. You will contact information, about us information, and legal information. You really need to include the legal part. It basically has information about spam and that you will not knowingly collect information from minors. You can find information about what you need to include by looking up website legal information online. Many website owners get away without including this information but you should play it safe and include it on your website.

Lastly, do not lose visitors because your website links send them away from your website. Use anchor links which open new pages in a new window. This ways visitors will not forget where they were when they clicked the link. Therefore, they will be less apt to leave your website.

These top 5 bad website design ideas are easily avoided. Now go out there and create a great website.