Is your Website Design annoying?
Have you ever wondered that your website could be annoying? In website design, understanding the things that visitors dislike most is essential, if you want them to visit your website again. To create a website that is not annoying to your visitors, you have to identify what are the things you should eliminate from your website.
Some web designers and/or their clients want to have attractive flash headers in their web design. The flash headers are great; no one will miss it for sure. Lovely graphic components combined with good sound effects can create just the right atmosphere. On the other hand, when a visitor has started to explore the website, the header can be very annoying as every time the visitor click on the website the header restarts and it distracts. The visitors may find it to be enjoyable at first, but as they continue to browse your site it can become very annoying very quickly and easily. They will find it disturbing their concentration and making it hard to read the content on the page.
Many web designers, particularly who are new to the industry, simply love their ideas and concepts so they are likely to get carried away with their design in one way or another. Well, it's fine to create a striking header, but remember you should not assault the visitor's mind with it.
An important fact that every web designer should not forget is, a website design should convey a message to the visitor that reveals the theme and purpose of the website and not the designer's level of talent.
So what things can make a website design annoying for its visitors? Actually, your web design can quite easily become annoying. Nevertheless, there are certain web designers who are much better than others at annoying their visitors. Here is a list of features that annoy your visitors the most.
Background music is one of the key features that many visitors find annoying. If you are having an online internet radio station or an online music store, you may play background music, but if your website is not any of those, there's no need to play music on every page.
The second factor is using huge font sizes in your web design. When it comes to designing a website for visually disable people, huge font size is the right thing to do. If that's not the case, you are shouting at your visitors with these large fonts and needless to say people hate it when someone shouts at them.
Very Small font sizes are also a not advisable. Make sure to select a font size that your visitors can effortlessly read through your content. Don't shout but make yourself heard.
Avoid popup windows in your website. Although popup windows can be blocked in a lot of browsers now, some web designers continue to use them. The most annoying thing about popups is sometimes the visitors don't get to see significant info because of those popup blockers. So Stay away from popup windows, instead display your significant messages in a central location of your website.
These are some common mistakes done in web designing, there could be many other not to do's. Remember, as a web designer the last thing you want to do is work hard on your website only to find out that your visitors are annoyed with it.
Some web designers and/or their clients want to have attractive flash headers in their web design. The flash headers are great; no one will miss it for sure. Lovely graphic components combined with good sound effects can create just the right atmosphere. On the other hand, when a visitor has started to explore the website, the header can be very annoying as every time the visitor click on the website the header restarts and it distracts. The visitors may find it to be enjoyable at first, but as they continue to browse your site it can become very annoying very quickly and easily. They will find it disturbing their concentration and making it hard to read the content on the page.
Many web designers, particularly who are new to the industry, simply love their ideas and concepts so they are likely to get carried away with their design in one way or another. Well, it's fine to create a striking header, but remember you should not assault the visitor's mind with it.
An important fact that every web designer should not forget is, a website design should convey a message to the visitor that reveals the theme and purpose of the website and not the designer's level of talent.
So what things can make a website design annoying for its visitors? Actually, your web design can quite easily become annoying. Nevertheless, there are certain web designers who are much better than others at annoying their visitors. Here is a list of features that annoy your visitors the most.
Background music is one of the key features that many visitors find annoying. If you are having an online internet radio station or an online music store, you may play background music, but if your website is not any of those, there's no need to play music on every page.
The second factor is using huge font sizes in your web design. When it comes to designing a website for visually disable people, huge font size is the right thing to do. If that's not the case, you are shouting at your visitors with these large fonts and needless to say people hate it when someone shouts at them.
Very Small font sizes are also a not advisable. Make sure to select a font size that your visitors can effortlessly read through your content. Don't shout but make yourself heard.
Avoid popup windows in your website. Although popup windows can be blocked in a lot of browsers now, some web designers continue to use them. The most annoying thing about popups is sometimes the visitors don't get to see significant info because of those popup blockers. So Stay away from popup windows, instead display your significant messages in a central location of your website.
These are some common mistakes done in web designing, there could be many other not to do's. Remember, as a web designer the last thing you want to do is work hard on your website only to find out that your visitors are annoyed with it.