Web design plays a crucial component in a website and one should avoid certain kind of mistakes.

1. Designers should avoid fancy fonts during the content post whereby users can easily read it.
   
2. Avoid the audio and video files in the design of the website because it takes more time for loading.
   
3. Do not use over animations in the design and blinking text in the design to make design attractive.
   
4. You should use DIV tag and CSS for designing the website instead of using tables.
   
5. Provide search option into the website so as to enable users easily search the content from the website for which they visit youyr website.
   

Ya don't say.

 

Oh well, better ditch my latest script font, auto play, animated gif, table layout design then. Pity. Can I keep my pink and green colour scheme though?

Hmmm, does this mean I'll have to ditch my flaming logo, star field background and scrolling text? (i was thinking of using the <marque> tag for this). Also, the background music I was going to use (its a rather nifty midi file of Green sleeves), is that not a good idea also?

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Those are good tips but I am not so sure that it brings value to the forums so much as it looks almost like you are spamming a miniature blog post here. :-)

 

Now, I could be wrong because I'm new here too. But I would rather like to get to know you yourself as a person than read another list of website design tips that probably belong on a blog.

 

It's nice to meet you.

Edited January 5, 201313 yr by WebsiteWriter

Hmmm, does this mean I'll have to ditch my flaming logo, star field background and scrolling text? (i was thinking of using the <marque> tag for this). Also, the background music I was going to use (its a rather nifty midi file of Green sleeves), is that not a good idea also?

 

No. Not at all. If you visit the conspiracy websites you will see that flaming logos and star field backrounds are still in style. I have to admit that it has been awhile since I saw any rotating skull gifs.

 

The background music can go though.

 

Man, I hate background music.

Ya don't say.

 

Oh well, better ditch my latest script font, auto play, animated gif, table layout design then. Pity. Can I keep my pink and green colour scheme though?

 

Tables aren't going to die any time soon unfortunately. I was recently hired to build a website and I had an impossible time convincing our code guy to stop using tables for everything.

 

The next designer I work with who uses tables for layouts is going to get bludgeoned to death with my very heavy livingroom coffee table and it's going to feel great...

 

I can't wait.

Web design is like life and no single set of rules will ensure happiness.

 

Designers should avoid fancy fonts during the content post whereby users can easily read it.

Using non-standard fonts for content is actually quite common as a means of giving the website a Typographic identity (Printed newspapers have been using this technique long before the Internet existed.) with handwriting or heavily stylised types being reserved for <h> tags or logo usage.

 

Avoid the audio and video files in the design of the website because it takes more time for loading.

If the page is waiting for media files to load before text appears, then the page has been built wrong and you need to start using javascript callbacks & Ajax in your code.

 

Do not use over animations in the design and blinking text in the design to make design attractive.

Beauty is in the eye of the client, the website users and lastly the designer. Sure you can advise that some or all of what a client wants sucks so bad it blows but be prepared to swallow your artistic pride if you want to get paid.

 

You should use DIV tag and CSS for designing the website instead of using tables.

Except where you are trying to mimic the action of tables or using a table sorting script function. Tables also provide a simple means to give site scrapers coding nightmares and many content rich sites are still using them as a result.

 

Provide search option into the website so as to enable users easily search the content from the website for which they visit your website.

A search box should not be considered as a substitute for poor navigation menus or related links. It forces the visitor to think about what they need to type and this is not a good thing, you want them rapidly exploring the site where they can be exposed to more of what is on offer or sale. Being purely mercenary if your website is supported by advertising you want visitors to find things using two or three page hops and not be able to drill straight down.