If you are a website designer you might be planning to make another grand website that you fancy will captivate a great mass of visitor’s attention. Indeed it will, depending upon the efforts you put into your work. You will be having in mind great design ideas that constantly tempt you to put your imagination into creation, an entity that is visible, admirable and tangible. But don’t be over anxious, it’s good to be enthusiastic but it may happen that some of your design ideas turn into dreadful mistakes that you repent over after creation. It’s not just the website designers who can make such mistakes; a web design company can also be prone to such mistakes. So what are these dreadful mistakes which must be avoided especially if you are planning to represent your business online? So here are we going to discuss them.
- Website Overly Populated With Graphics
Visitors usually don’t like websites that are time consuming that is too slow to load. They usually get impatient with such websites and immediately leave the site never to return again. One possible reason for this is usage of particularly large graphics or too many graphics. So it’s the responsibility of a website designer to use graphics smartly rather than using them excessively. One solution to this is to save your graphics as GIF files (.gif) rather than JPEG (.jpg) and try to use actual size of the graphics to avoid distortion.
- Use of Visitor Counters
Visitor counters are usually used to show popularity of a website, it is only advantageous only if you have millions of visitors and you want to attract the attention of advertisers. Otherwise a visitor counter should not be displayed because most of the visitors do not want to know which visitor number they are specifically if they are on visitor number four. In this case it has benefit neither to the website designer nor the visitor. If a web design company still wants to know how much daily traffic it is receiving then it can utilize the services of web hosts offer free web statistics revealing daily visitors, hits, referrers, etc without the whole world seeing this information.
- Utilizing Banners
Banners are also graphics that can slow down your website to a great deal and contribute in losing your customers. Therefore only use banners where necessary. Most of the visitors think banners as ads so they simply avoid clicking on them. If you have one or two banners try to place it on top or bottom of the web page. Otherwise use side bar to place a small banner. The reason is, most of the people will start reading just below the first picture they see.
- Website Organization
Both web designers and web developers should coordinate with each other to plan how the website should be organized. The design and organization should be such that it should easily lead visitors to each and every phase of your site. Ask your friends to visit your site and see how they navigate, which links they click and at what point they generally stop. Website organization is of great significance whether you are leading visitors to buy your product or to click and go to another place in your website. Consider the design flow of your site making sure that graphics do not come in the way of your leads. If in the middle of the home page a visitor clicks graphics or banners before getting to the sales page he will never return.
- Website Personalization
To make better sales on the internet try to personalize your website so that you can reach maximum number of target audience. This is quite hard to do if you have a general website because you cannot provide everything to everyone with changing behaviors and choices. Successful internet marketers target a specific niche and offer specific products and services.
These are only a few mistakes however they can be really useful to make your site a success but you can search for more to avoid dreadful ending of the work you have imagined to work well.