Some of the common mistakes while designing a website should be known beforehand so that you do not repeat the same mistakes again. Prevention is better than committing the mistake and then correcting it. Correcting and redesigning can waste a lot of time. Unclear business goals or goals that are not defined properly are one of the many mistakes repeated over and over. The website should have an aim and an objective. For example a small business can have the following mission policy: “to advertise my product as much as possible. The success of the project will be determined if there are at least ten people enquiring about this product on sale and also if the company is able to sell two products on an average every month through this website. The business model should be good enough to function efficiently. A good quality statement for the company is very important to show its professionalism.
A bad business model will even bring down a good website. This can be a big problem when your closest competitor has a better business model. There are approximately 21 billion websites in the world and your website has to compete with all or some of them to succeed. You cannot escape the competition, but can persevere by giving the web design your best shot. Marketing and public relations through the web is equally important in succeeding. Web designs are mostly thought of as good graphics and a variety of the latest multimedia applications. This is not true. Clients waste plenty of their resources just by concentrating on flashy WebPages and even more flashy music on their WebPages. Complicated java scripts and other sophisticated techniques of designing a webpage can make it slower for the surfer to download. Simplicity is the most important thing while designing a website. While designing a website we should assume that the surfer is very lazy to use his brains to think and understand what your website offers. It is the job of the website to do these actions automatically for the surfer. In other words the surfer should easily understand the entire page just by looking at it for a second. The web designer should have his focus more on the substance of the webpage than the style.
People with the slowest internet connection speed should be able to download your webpage without having to wait for too long. Old browsers like internet explorer version6 should be compatible for your website. Most of the clients try to encompass all the services in the world in a single webpage of theirs. This is a bad business decision and it also deviates from the actual kind of service that the particular business offers. A website should revolve around the product or service that a business offers. Uselessly trying to interfere in every other market will bring down the chances of your website appearing within the first few pages of a search engine. In other words it is not good to try and appeal to all people boasting that you can offer all kind of things.
