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10 Signs That You've Got A Bad Website
But is your website in danger of deterring visitors. Does it look professional enough or represent you well enough to give your visitors the assurance that your interaction with them will be handled seriously? We’ve put together a list of the main elements found in a bad website. Below are the top 10. • Does your company or organization’s name and description appear in the web browser title? The title at the top of your browser screen or tab must at least display your company’s name and not something like “home page” or “default page”. • Do your images or lines line up? Images out of line look sloppy, is that the way your business is run? • Is your text difficult to read? Is text in a multitude of colors or hard to read fonts. Have you got red text on grey for example as your main body text, this can be very difficult to read. • Do your eyes dart around on the page (information overload) or are you drawn to a specific area? Your page should be streamlined to take the visitor exactly where they want to go (or where you want them to go). • Does your website take a long time to load pages or animate? People are willing to wait 5-10 seconds for a page, but after that you’re in danger of losing them. Don’t shrink large images in your web page editor as you are still using a very large image, instead crop or resize images to the exact size they will be viewed at before they are uploaded to your site. • Does your site make distracting noises? That’s so 5 years ago! (maybe 10) so take the noises off your site! Video clips are fine, recorded messages are fine; just don’t insert those annoying rollover sounds whenever your visitors mouse over your links. Think of it as classical conditioning – you’re training your visitors not to click your links because every time they hover over it produces an annoying sound. • Are you able to update the website? The web is ever changing and your site should be too. Do you have access to at least change the main content and images at a moment’s notice? You should, it’s your website! • Is your copyright date a year (or more) behind? I understand the argument: “but my site was built in 2005 so shouldn’t I leave that date up there?” The short answer is NO! What you’re doing is making your site look like it hasn’t been updated since 2005. If you’re trying to demonstrate some dependability in your business a good way to do it is by making your date 2005-2009 or something like that. • Does your site have text that is on top of images making it very hard to read? If you can’t read text over a background image, what’s the point of having the text. • Do you have an email address with your domain name in the suffix (following the “@” symbol). OK folks, you know who you are… Seriously having a hotmail, gmail, aol, yahoo or any other free domain just looks plain cheap. If there’s no way that you can do without your hotmail address, then forward youremail@yourdomain.com to that gmail account to at least appear a little less cheap. Recognizing these steps, is the first step on the path to realizing your website’s full potential. Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com Chris Steingart is the president and lead web developer of QT Web Designs. Chris works closely with his clients to create unique online solutions for their organization, which are optimized for search engine ranking and maximum visitor retention ultimately driving new success to the business. For more info visit qtweb.ca Do you send a newsletter? Make it automatic with QT Connect: qtconnect.com |
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