Top common mistakes that web designers do:

As I feel that web designing is one of the best career option for all who want to be a web designer with a dedication. Uncountable web designers one can find around the universe, from east to west and north to south. But the question is who is the best, and the answer is the person who creates good web sites, now again a question arise in the mind that how can one decide that a web site is qualifying good or bad merits. When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose.

Here are some important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well. Please read all carefully to avoid all the followings in your site:

1. Never use splash pages

Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like "welcome" or "click here to enter". Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the "back" button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page.

2. Do not use excessive banner advertisements

Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, provide more valuable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, and let your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.

3. Must have a simple and clear navigation

You have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus. If your visitors don't know how to navigate, they will leave your site.

4. Must have a clear indication of where the user is

When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don't confuse your visitors because confusion means "abandon ship"!

5. Do not use uncontrolled audio on your site

If your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site, reading your content, you will want to make sure they're not annoyed by some audio looping on and on your website. If you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control over it volume or muting controls would work fine.

6. Do not make your web pages bulky

Every website owner does not only want to get his website ready but also expect a big benefit by the website in terms of business and branding. So are you taking care about all these things also when you work on a website? If yes, then OK, and if no then read all it very carefully. First of all, avoid using heavy jpg files, optimizing all the images, avoiding excessive use of table, you can replace now table with div tag. Always use external css, provide alt tag to all the images, put separate title name to all the pages, and most important is don’t forget to use proper meta tags also.

7. Test your website’s compatibility with all browsers

Your website isn't just compatible with a lot of Website browsers. One of the foremost reasons why your website design doesn't click at all is because it won't show up with majority of Internet browsers. Keep in mind that there are many types that can be utilized by Internet users. Classic examples include Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Crazy Browser. Thus, it only means that if you want to make sure that you can reach out to as many potential customers as possible, your website should show up in all of them. Before you upload your website, do some testing first so you can already correct possible problems.

8. Is your website is readable by all the visitors

Fonts are not friendly to Internet users. Besides the overall layout of your web pages, you also have to take into consideration the font that you are going to use. The usual mistake in website design is using very small fonts, which makes content very inconvenient for Internet users to read. Sometimes they are frozen, which means you cannot adjust their sizes. You should ensure that your font is readable by complementing them with the background.

9. Is your website is Search Engine Friendly

Web pages are not search-engine friendly. If you're not taking care of your headline tags, not adding Meta tags in each of your web pages, or if you've been stuffing a lot of keywords in your websites, then you will surely not gain the favor of search engines.