A Quick Check for Your Website
Here are some common web design mistakes that can drive visitors away:
- Overwhelming graphics & flashy banners – if your visitors are distracted or confused by excessive images, they may close your page before for they find the information they need.
- Too many links going to too many different places – make sure you lay out your site navigation in a logical and consistent manner.
- Lengthy, pointless flash presentations – generally, visitors don’t want to sit through 2 minutes (or 20 seconds) of pretentious flash animation and background music in order to check your open hours, view your services or place an order. If you do include flash animations, make sure you offer a link to skip or bypass them.
- An entire home page devoted to your corporate mission statement or something else without a reader benefit
- Lack of relevant information
- No call to action
Give your business’s Web site a quick check. If you’ve got any of these mistakes, get rid of them ASAP!
