Avoid Annoying Web Pages!
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Freedom of expression is available to everyone, however if you would like to keep your visitors from leaving your site, avoid annoying web pages!
Professional and amateur web artists and designers thrive on the internet, and freely explore their artistic prowess in a number of venues.
Unfortunately, with the freedom of expression, comes the ability to offend the sensibilities of website visitors, by going overboard and building annoying web pages.
It's sometimes hard to determine, what makes a particular web page bothersome to a visitor.
Some websites provide good looking web pages using certain colors, while others use the same colors and come up with an annoying color scheme.
Use colors that work together.
Colors used properly, can make a website attractive and communicate emotion to the viewer.
However, there is an indeterminable line, that when crossed, causes a website using the same colors to lose viewers.
Some color combinations are just plain irritating to the eyes!
An example is using a red and white color combination during the Holidays Season. This is totally appropriate and acceptable during this time of year. The same color combination based on another theme, say internet marketing, would probably not attract or keep many visitors at any other time of the year.
Colors can add interest to an otherwise dull website that is loaded with plain text. On the other hand, too much color distracts from the content of the site.
Placing a dark text on a black, or dark background, is totally unacceptable, and makes the text painfully difficult to read.
Some common sense on the part of the web designer usually precludes this potential problem.
Excessive graphics and pop ups are also more than a distraction on some websites.
Graphics used judiciously, enhance the quality of a website. Overuse of graphics, has the opposite effect plus they cause delays in page loading.
We sometimes forget that a great percentage of internet users still access the internet with slow modem connections.
Excessive graphics cause long load times and will lose potential customers. Nothing is more aggravating than a web page that just sits there waiting to load! Talk about annoying!
Pop ups, in my humble opinion, are something that should be banned from websites. They do have their place in marketing applications, however, they are almost as annoying to me as slow loading web pages.
Another annoying factor in web page design, is the excessive use of clicks to access information that should be readily accessible. You should not have to click through 4 or 5 pages, to get the information you need.
To me, anything over 2 clicks is too much! Why over complicate navigation in your website?
KISS, keep it simple stupid, and you will retain more visitors.
I know there is no such thing as a "perfect" web page design because we all have a different vision of perfection, however, if you use some common sense in addition to your artistic creativity, you can avoid annoying web pages.
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