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How not to design your site.

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Blogmaster, Sep 27, 2005.

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    What do you think are some of the biggest mistakes designers make seo and visual wise?
     
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  2. SEbasic

    SEbasic Peon

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    Use Comic Sans MS... (That's gotta be #1 for me)...
     
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    Force you to download something to get the full experience of their site.
     
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  4. Blogmaster

    Blogmaster Blood Type Dating Affiliate Manager

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    k I add one: making you sign up with your email address in order to view the free ebook ...
     
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    Add as many flashy gif's as you possibly can - just to give it some character.
     
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    Changing the size of my browser window that I already had open.

    ...and a close second... using a splash page with a click to open a new browser window to display the main site......... and then resizing it.
     
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  7. SEbasic

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    palespyder Psycho Ninja

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    Music, Multiple popups, activeX...
     
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  10. SEbasic

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    What can I say - I love to help the internet...
    Javascript transitions are only a very spall part of that...

    Blinking text is Sooooooo cool right now too...
     
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  11. Crazy_Rob

    Crazy_Rob I seen't it!

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    Frames.

    Splash pages.

    Links opening in new windows.

    Complex backgrounds that make text difficult to read.

    Dead links.

    Poor organization.

    Poor quality (or too small) product pictures.

    Attracting untargeted traffic (the wrong people).
     
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    1. Stupid loud music

    2. Flash (For 99% of the sites that use Flash) especially on slow servers

    3. Scrollable boxes of text

    4. Putting on the front page - This site works best at 800x600

    5. This site is designed for Internet Explorer

    6. Too much red - a large part of the population is red color blind
     
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    e10 Well-Known Member

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    And in SEO mistakes using the name of the company in the Tilte and nothing else and then wondering why there are not 1,000s of visitors trooping through the pages.
     
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    Music plus unskippable Flash intro ..Then using unoptimised templates that's as big as 400 Kb per page.

    I hate webmasters who think everyone is surfing using NASA's mainframe.
     
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    Frames Frames and more Frames!! NO! :mad:
     
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    Weirfire Language Translation Company

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    Yeah, I feel quite proud...

    I think I'll add to it as I find more things that are *really cool* to put on websites...
     
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    Having to scroll endlessly is another good 1 ;)
     
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