By: Rajiv Sahadevan
If you have looked through some websites there are a few things which may not be liked. For instance the color of the website is Too Gaudy! Or may be the Site is too slow. Let’s see a list of features which really annoy the end user and possibly stop them from visiting your site in the future.
Should I give you examples, people will be annoyed. But if I do not give, then you will be annoyed. I am in a position where I cannot decide. I will leave the Examples for now, but will add them when I have decided on it.
A website could be a real annoyance if it takes ages to load up. A flash website specially will take a load of time to come up on the screen. Seeing the Loading page for more than 10-20 seconds is really annoyance. Get rid of the flash, not many people need to see your Funky animation. They need the data you have to provide, unless of course, if you are portraying your Animation skills. A 3D animation designer or a Graphic designer will be required to do this. But make it load as fast as you can and reduce the file size to the best.
The second most annoying thing is the color. Not everyone likes to see a multi colored website. That doesn’t mean that you will create a website in black and white. You surely don’t want your website visitors to be bored. You want them to be stuck to the website. Keep the design neat and make sure that you don’t use more than 3 colors on your website. Make the site lively with a very professional design, Neat colors and quickly loadable pictures and animation.
Error Free Web pages are the next annoying thing. Have you noticed error messages which say a “Variable X not initialized. Debug. Yes/No/ Cancel”? That’s really annoying. Make sure that your users don’t get to see these error messages. It affects the credibility of your website and its better off to have an error handler in place and get your website tested before it goes online. No errors on your website will make it better on search engines too.
Page not found. A link in place but the page cannot be found. This really annoys users. When a person is taking all the time to browse your website and he cannot find the information he requires but finds a Page not found error! It surely doesn’t look good to the eyes and surely not on the websites credibility. Check your website before you put them online and make sure there are no errors.
I have a few more to add up to the list but you will have to wait and see them in the next website design article. Till then, Take my word and Make sure that you have the guidelines followed.
