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Bad Design Consists of:
1. Text that is hard to read, including use of tiny fonts against black backgrounds and illegible
fonts against picturesque backgrounds.
2. Anything that slows page downloading speed. Net surfers are impatient and they will hit
their back button to exit out of a site where pages take too long to download. Avoid any
plug-ins that have to be downloaded in order simply in order to view your page.
3. No clear "Mission Statement" on the home page. Web surfers want to know immediately
what a web site is about - they don't want to have to read several pages to get it and then
decide the time spent wasn't worth it.
4. No clear instructions on the home page on how to get the information you want out of the
site. Web surfers want to surf with speed, not study in a library.
5. Home pages that make you click on something to "enter" (called portal pages). What's the
point? You've already entered. Why in the world would you care to enter twice?
6. Confusing site organization, difficult navigation, dead links.
7. Boring writing. Not
much can be done about this one. Creative writing isn't available at
any price, in any medium - ask the publishers.
Good Design Consists of:
1. Text that is easy to read. Don't be afraid to use a large bold font against a light colored
background. You can use any font with any background. There are no rules or laws here.
2. Avoid gimmicks. Construct your pages to download fast. Consider having a section just
for photos and name it so that people will expect that portion of your site to download
slowly. And for goodness sake, don't make people download a plug-in just so that they can
read your page.
3. A clear statement on the home page explaining what the site is all about.
4. Something on the home page that makes it clear what the other pages are all about too.
5. A home page that is a home page - none of that "enter" nonesense.
6. An organized site that has some kind of structure that can be easily understood.
7. Entertainment value. This is where good writing skills come in. Think of your site as if it
were a novel or a hit record. Somebody has to grab our interest immediately and then hold
it by entertaining us. There's no better way than with your personality through your writing,
and nobody can do that for you better than you can.
The bottom line is that web site design professionals usually prevent your own personality from shining through your web site. It's much better to be yourself and create something that they would call amateurish then it is to pay for something that they use a form and a program to create for all their clients. Think outside the box. And then create your own box.
About the Author
Peter Cross is a singer/songwriter/producer who was among the first to put music on the internet in downloadable format in 1996. To this day, he is one of the only musicians who has created and designed his own music web site in html, and at 104 pages filled with entertaining content, it's one of the largest. Check it out at: http://www.starcrost.com
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