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Web Design: Bad Habits
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Making a website is not that hard to do, but there are several points to keep in mind when it comes to making a good website. The first things to focus on is to grab the reader's interest and then to keep the reader's interest in your website. The next important point for creating a good website is to make it easy to read and understand completely throughout the website. As easy as all of this may seem at first, making a bad website is even easier to end up doing in the end. By understanding what really bad web design habits are out there, you will then better be able to understand what not to do when designing your website.

The first sign of a bad web design is the involvement of background music. Music in the background of a website only belongs on sites that promotes a musician, a band, or maybe a website that is specifically music related to begin with. But if your website is not directly music related, then it is only bad web design when using music with your website. Background music only hinders the loading of the site to begin with, and then if the visitor finally returns after loading, the same music will continue playing over and over while the visitor is on it. Since this is most always annoying to the visitor, the music will either be turned down or eventually force the visitor to leave the website.


The size of the text on your website can easily contribute to a bad web design. When the text is too small, the viewers will then find the reading hard to stick with when trying to read. No matter the individual's personal computer text size, anytime a website has the visually incorrect text, there will be frustration or annoyance and visitors will eventually leave. Your best bet is to adjust your text to a comfortable text size for read, but never use text so large that it will visually assault your visitor's senses.


Another reason that too large of text is considered bad web design is because of when the text is too large, the visitor will have to scroll around more. The more scrolling and moving around just to read the site will frustrate the viewer so to not desire continuing on with your site. Remember too, that when it comes to text, it is also bad web design to mix incorrect color schemes together between text and background. The wrong color schemes may hurt the eyes while trying to read, or just be too difficult to read because the text color and the background color are too similar.


The last vital point to remember in bad web design is how bothersome pop-up windows can be. Pop-up windows are bad web design because they are intrusive advertisements interrupting what the visitor is trying to read on your site. Many people now have pop-up blockers so to block all pop-up windows, but the only problem with that is the occasional important ads are also blocked. Try to avoid using pop-ups with information vital to your site, because many times they may not get through to the viewer appropriately. By avoiding these few bad website design points, you will create a more user friendly site, and this will keep your visitors sticking around longer.


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