Schizophrenic Design
Always, always, always be consistent. This applies to your
font choices, color choices, and even the ways that you highlight and add links
to texts. Not keeping these constantly consistent is something we like to call
schizophrenic design. This sort of design flaw may mean that readers find your
webpage hard to read, frustrating to try to use, or even just a plain eyesore.
Most often, these are found on sites that have been designed by amateurs, and
not those designed by professionals. Fixing these can be quite easy to do, but
even easier if you contact someone like John
Phanchalad to help you.
Keep It Simple,
Stupid
This phrase, which you may have heard before, can also be
applied to web design. Do not use special effect text, as this can be annoying
to some users. Also remember that anything that is animated or unnecessary is just
pulling your users away from the true purpose of your site. Even worse, it may
mean that quite a few users simply navigate away from your page without
exploring it. Do not fill your page with too much text, information, or other
content. Lastly, you may want to think twice about adding music or sounds
without mute and volume controls.
Loading Speed
For many user, the loading time of a page is very important.
How long they have to wait for a picture, graphic, or other things to load can
often mean the difference in them sticking with your page, or clicking off of
it very quickly. You may want to run speed tests on your own to see just how
quickly your page (and things on it) loads from your office, your home, and
other locations. There are ways that you can simplify your pages in order to
help them to load faster for users.
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