Web Pages That Suck presents the biggest web design mistakes in 2004 learn usability and good Web design by looking at bad Web design NL
Thanks to Seth's Blog: I've been remiss: "I haven't told you about Vincent Flanders' funny and useful and free article on web design""Vincent Flanders Presents: Web Pages That Suck presents the biggest web design mistakes in 2004 learn usability and good Web design by looking at bad Web design The Biggest Web Design Mistakes of 2004 (Part 1 of 2) "
1. Believing people care about you and your web site
Remember to ask yourself webmaster:
* The only reason my web site exists is to solve my customers' problems.
* What problems does the page I'm looking at solve?
2. A man from Mars can't figure out what your web site is about in less than 4 seconds
3. Mystical belief in the power of Web Standards, Usability, and tableless CSS
4. Using design elements that get in the way of your visitors.
5. Navigational failure.
All web navigation must answer:
*Where am I?
*Where have I been?
*Where can I go next
*Where's the Home Page
*Where's the Home Home Page
6. Using Mystery Meat Navigation.
The Biggest Web Design Mistakes of 2004 (Part 2 of 2)
"7. Thinking your web site is your marketing strategy.
8. Site lacks Heroin Content.
In his classic book, Naked Lunch, William Burroughs described heroin as the ultimate product. Why? Because people would crawl through the sewers and beg to buy it. In the non-drug world, there are very few products that can be classified as having heroin's appeal.
9. Forgetting the purpose of text.
10. Too much material on one page.
11. Confusing web design with a magic trick.
12. Misusing Flash.
13. Misunderstanding graphics.
14. AFFrontPage."
posted by Jen @ 10:09 AM
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