•11 Common Mistakes People Make When Creating Web Pages.
1. Graphic Laden.
A web page should load in a reasonable amount of time. If you use too many graphics, or graphics that are not scaled and saved in the most efficient format, your pages will take longer to load. Impatient users may bail out and go to another site. Clean and fast should be the goal. You can usually make a very nice layout using HTML and CSS without the whole page being a sliced up graphic. Of course I've built sites for people who insisted on pages based entirely on graphics...
•Do What's Important Vs. Doing What's Urgent!
Many years ago, one of my brothers gave me a book on audio tape that I think was from the Day-Timer folks. I don't remember the title, but the basic theme was how to make better use of your times. One thing I do remember was a chapter on doing what's important not what's urgent.
Do what's important, not what's urgent.... What exactly does that mean? What's the difference? Aren't most things that are urgent also important? No, not necessarily. Most people reading this article lead busy, hectic...
•Road Kill: Good vs. Bad Web Pages.
Never mind the experts, never mind what they taught you in school, and never mind your competitors, put a stake in the ground and define the purpose of your web site. Then make it deliver that functionality. Don't get lost in layers of pretty design or unnecessary technology.
What defines a good web site? Have you ever been on a web site trying to do something that you were supposed to be able to do on that site and couldn't? That's not a good web site then. It doesn't matter how pretty it...
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