Creating web sites - the 'no-no's' - part 2 Articles / Web Tips & Tricks Posted by support on Oct 17, 2004 - 09:59 AM Here are the last 5 reasons (The 'no-no's' when creating websites) why websites don't get awards and annoy their visitors: 5 Colored text on a colored or patterned background. You want an award and the poor reviewer can't even read your page! 4 More than 1 ad banner on the page. The reviewer will click on the nicest banner and give that site an award! This is a serious mistake. Put 1 banner on a page, tops (or maybe 2 or 3 buttons). And if you're smart, don't put a banner on your main (home) page. That page should advertise YOUR site, not someone else's. 3 Your entire site is on a single 3-megabyte page. Books have more than one chapter - so should your website. 2 Extraneous content. Don't put up an animated gif just because it looks nice. If there's no good reason for something to be on your page, get rid of it. "Perfection is when there's nothing else you can remove." And the #1 way to annoy a reviewer 1 Music. Let us count the ways this really annoys the hell out of a reviewer. It takes forever to load. It often crashes their browser. And if they don't share your taste in music, you're screwed. There's a reason silence is golden! Never, ever, ever play music on someone's machine unless they say they want to hear it (by clicking on a link, for example) [1] This is the second and final part of the article: 'The 'no-no's' when creating web sites' See here for the previous 5 things of what not to do This article comes from AskMorris   http://www.askmorris.org/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.askmorris.org/Article50.phtml Links in this article   [1] http://www.askmorris.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=48