Week 12, The Biggest Web Design Mistakes

The web site webpagesthatsuck.com talked about the biggest web design mistakes. The web site provides many usability and good web design by looking at bad web design.

The following is the 14 design mistake in2004:
1. Believing people care about you and your web site.
2. A man from Mars can't figure out what your web site is about in less than 4 seconds.
3. Mystical belief in the power of Web Standards, Usability, and tableless CSS.
4. Using design elements that get in the way of your visitors.
5. Navigational failure.
6. Using Mystery Meat Navigation.
7. Thinking your web site is your marketing strategy.
8. Site lacks Heroin Content.
9. Forgetting the purpose of text.
10. Too much material on one page.
11. Confusing web design with a magic trick.
12. Misusing Flash.
13. Misunderstanding graphics.
14. AFFrontPage.

Summary
The web site has a bad design that will make the visitor confuse, and then leave your website. It will not be success in the market. In these 14 points, I think the point 2 is the most important. It is because if the web site can't be easy to understand what the objective of the web site shortly, the visitor will not spend more time to guess the web site what is the web site talking about, and then leave the web site. Secondary, when the visitor is the first time to come the website or touch the organization. It should avoid that it comes to names and tag lines when the organization is non-profit organization. Due to the visitor don't know what is the organization background and mission.