Vincent Flanders Presents: Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015
From webpagesthatsuck.com
Webpagesthatsuck.com has a really interesting article on web design that anyone doing any degree of web design will surely enjoy and some may even find it a handy heads up. The description of the article reads:
"Next to e-mail, your web site is one of the most important marketing tools you have. Too many people are using their web sites in the wrong way and are hurting themselves.
building a web site is a lot like building a houseI’ve gathered what I think are the biggest web design mistakes committed during the period 1995 to 2015. Yes it is a little facetious to say these mistakes will be made in the year 2015, but it’s human nature to repeat your mistakes over and over. But it’s human nature to repeat your mistakes over and over.
I've rewritten parts of the article and put in some videos of sites that have changed. I have the proof of how bad they used to be.
Some mistakes I’ll discuss aren’t actually design mistakes in the classical sense — ugly graphics, bad navigation, etc. — but serious big picture problems like our Number One Mistake: "
Here are the top ten mistakes according to Vincent Flanders, you can click here to view the site where you will find each mistake fully explained.
1. Believing people care about you and your web site.
2. A man from Mars can’t figure out what your web site is about in less than four 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.
6. Using Mystery Meat Navigation.
7. Thinking your web site is your marketing strategy.
8. Site lacks Heroin Content.
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.
Webpagesthatsuck.com has a really interesting article on web design that anyone doing any degree of web design will surely enjoy and some may even find it a handy heads up. The description of the article reads:
"Next to e-mail, your web site is one of the most important marketing tools you have. Too many people are using their web sites in the wrong way and are hurting themselves.
building a web site is a lot like building a houseI’ve gathered what I think are the biggest web design mistakes committed during the period 1995 to 2015. Yes it is a little facetious to say these mistakes will be made in the year 2015, but it’s human nature to repeat your mistakes over and over. But it’s human nature to repeat your mistakes over and over.
I've rewritten parts of the article and put in some videos of sites that have changed. I have the proof of how bad they used to be.
Some mistakes I’ll discuss aren’t actually design mistakes in the classical sense — ugly graphics, bad navigation, etc. — but serious big picture problems like our Number One Mistake: "
Here are the top ten mistakes according to Vincent Flanders, you can click here to view the site where you will find each mistake fully explained.
1. Believing people care about you and your web site.
2. A man from Mars can’t figure out what your web site is about in less than four 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.
6. Using Mystery Meat Navigation.
7. Thinking your web site is your marketing strategy.
8. Site lacks Heroin Content.
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.
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