Seventeen Website Design Practices To Avoid When Creating Web Pages

The items listed below may be considered annoying to your
web site visitors


Having one or more of the items listed below on your site may cause visitors to leave your web site and never return

  1. Blinking text
  2. Annoying animation
  3. Obvious spelling errors
  4. Out of focus photographs
  5. Unintentional visible HTML code
  6. Broken links on your web pages
  7. Text that is too small to easily read
  8. Failing to verify that all images load properly
  9. A page or an entire website under construction
  10. Light colored text on a light colored background
  11. Flash or music that starts playing without consent
  12. Slow loading pages due to images being too large
  13. Text that extends across the entire width of a computer monitor
  14. Using a free web host for anything other than a personal web page
  15. Stars or snow flakes that follow your mouse pointer around everywhere you move your mouse
  16. Arriving at the first page of a website and the only thing that is visible on the page is a note that says "click here to enter web site"
  17. Having to scroll horizontally because your web page is too wide