The planning stage of a web design is the perfect opportunity for you to boost up your site. However, it can also leave a room to make mistakes which might potentially destroy your site. With that in mind, it is a must that you avoid making the common web design mistakes. Here are some tips on how you can do this:
- Shy away from making use of photos and images that are not search engine optimized. For your information, high resolution photos are meant for printing and not optimized for the world wide web. Truth is, such high resolution photos are worth a lot of space and megabytes. In fact, such photos may have 3 to 5 megabytes. This type of photos actually are quite heavy to be placed on a website. If you wish to make use of such photos for your site, then it is recommended that you utilize various photo editing programs which possess features which you can use to optimize such photos for your site. It may take some time but it will surely reap great advantages.
- Do not make use of copyrighted items in your website. When you do this, you will surely be facing lots of legal issues. These days, materials that are incorporated in a site has the website owners’ copyright protection. In the event that you wish to use that material in your site, then it can be done by talking and getting permission from the owner. Surely, the email address or the phone number where you can contact the owner is written on the site. For your information, you can find sites that allow the use of their photos and images. Such sites are article directories but the use of it will certainly come with some limitations.
- Avoid using site templates which try to squeeze in content. When you have a lengthy content, do not try to squeeze it all in one page. No matter how important the content is, the visitors will fail to appreciate it because of its layout. The best way to let visitors get the information is by dividing the contents into different pages. In each page, try to provide some links into the various pages that carries the other information. Place a ‘read more’ button which will direct people to the other pages of your site.
- Do not use too much Flash in your website. Flash actually helps you create good looking animation that will boost the appeal of your site. This program is so easy to use that it can even allow amateurs to create great websites. You might think that with all these benefits, why would you advice against the use of Flash, right? Well, this is because Flash is not really that compatible with search engines. When you make use of too much Flash for your site, there will be nothing in your site that search engines can rank.