This is a post devoted to all the “gurus” that hide behind their position of responsibility and taught us how to design your company’s website. Then (always) to blame for our failure to reflect what we demanded.
This is a listing of many of the mistakes that are often committed to the design of a website or blog. Some errors in designing a website that you will see in this post may seem ridiculous or obvious, but I assure you that continue to design pages with the same errors.
Let’s see how they influence the first impression, text, graphics, and usability in general.
ERRORS IN THE FIRST IMPRESSION:
* We are wonderful but the user does not know how we can help.
* After several seconds, does not yet know what the page.
* The site takes many seconds to load.
* The user can not differentiate between what is relevant and purely decorative graphics, finds no hierarchy
* We ask users to register before entering, so much effort worthwhile?.
* Our site will automatically download music that also is difficult to disconnect.
* Our site is not the same in different browsers.
* The content does not conform to what the user has searched.
* Our pages are not “air” (blanks).
* Force the user to install a plugin to view the web.
* Our design has been “borrowed” from another site.
* Pdf files do not identify with an icon.
ERRORS IN TEXTS AND LINKS:
* The links are not distinguished from the rest of the text.
* You do not have the font on your machine that we have chosen to model.
* Not enough contrast between text and background of the text.
* Our texts are centered or justified.
* We use a font type and size appropriate for our target.
* Our material wealth are not separated by paragraphs.
* Our owners are not attractive and are not distinguished from the rest of the paragraph.
* We have too many links.
ERRORS IN GRAPHICS, VIDEO AND AUDIO:
* Our logo appears to have been designed by an amateur.
* Our logo is not conducive to home.
* Our graphics are very cumbersome.
* Our site looks like a festival with so much flash and animated gif.
* We show the videos and not automatically when the user chooses.
* We have just uploaded the page with an icon “page under construction, come back another day” (…. Sure to come back, wait seated).
* The display resolution of the design is not adequate (for being too large or small).
* The colors besides being ugly, do not mix, and have nothing to do either with the corporate image or the theme of the website.
* Our blinking text and cause an epileptic fit on the user.
* The important buttons on the web are merged with the rest of the page, no stress and are placed in a bad place.
* Our graphics are so heavy that you never have enough patience to see them.
ERRORS IN NAVIGATION:
* Our user needs explanations for how to navigate our site.
* Our user reached this page via a search engine does not know where it is not as out of there.
* The back button of your browser is disabled.
* Our menu is not at the top of the website.
* There is no hierarchy in the pages.
* The names of the categories and subcategories are too long and are not descriptive.
* Scroll horizontally in our pages.
ERRORS IN THE CONTENT:
* Still not knowing what is going here.
* We have placed many ad server so that advertisements can not find our content.
* The content is not ordered.
* Our language is rich and full of jargon, which is a shame website for kids …
* Our pages are not only unnecessary long full of content, but also is not party paragraphs and we scare the user (An online version of Don Quixote?.
* We have offensive content or graphics.
* The public access to sites under construction and we still have many broken links.
* When the user encounters a form, in addition to having to fill a thousand boxes, that these are not well organized and on top do not know what button to clika …
* We are geniuses in SEO, we have positioned us for the first word “football”, but yes, this is a burial site …
* The last time we update our content, reigned peseta, worth around half, and the user is above us and misleading advertising claims …
And if that was not enough …:
* Use frames.
* We have no search engine and if we are not at the top of the website.
* We have not validated HTML.
* We have not validated the CSS.
* We put dates on the articles, knowing that we will go for months without a raise again.
* Our site is full of spelling errors.
* No contact information.
* We do not know when to use and when to use gif images jpg.
* Do not let “air” between the texts, images and margins of the main box.
* Our site has a script to refresh again and again.
* …. and many more that we do not remember, probably because my mind has always wanted to delete them
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