How To Make Website Users Flee In Horror so you know what NOT to do ;)

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Make every user to your website flee in horror at a mere glance. It's so easy, anyone can do it!

 

1. Be Inconsitent!

It's easy for your users to get disoriented navigating the Internet when every page within your web site looks different. Navigation and page layout should never be consistent throughout the web site.

 

2. Show Off What You Just Learned!

No matter how gaudy, it's good! Show off that new animation trick, or Internet gadget because it may not work with all browsers. With something flashy drawing the users attention away from the real purpose of the site, they will soon flee like the rest! Overly interactive pages with the latest animations that buzz around the screen create confusion and chaos!

 

3. Make Text Hard To Read

Be sure to use dark text on a dark background, or better yet, light text on a light background - that's excrutiating for the user! Focus only on making the site look good. Readability is a thing of the past. Use lots of busy background images under the text. Be sure text is either too small, too large, ALL CAPS, and or decorative.

 

4. Make Pages Sllooooooooooooow...

Load pages with fat images and lots of media that they don't even want to see or hear! Don't ever optimize your graphics in an image editor to make them smaller. Make every page so long that the user has to scroll down a mile just to get to the content that they need.

 

 

Any combination of these 4 invaluable solutions should do the trick, but can you think of anything else that will make someone flee a website in a hurry?

 

 

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Helpful information about bad web design:

 

Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/top-10-web-design-mistakes-of-2003/

 

Worst Web Design Mistakes

http://www.hwg.org/opcenter/newsletters/tips/feb00a.html

 

4 Fatal Website Design Mistakes

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/71474

 

Common Mistakes in Web Site Design

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

 

Notice from BuffaloHELP:

Moving topic to Website discussion > Web designing. This isn't really a tutorial but a cynical glossary.

Edited July 10, 2005 by BuffaloHELP (see edit history)

[snlildude87 0]

Haha, excellent first post!

You forgot to mention usage of the blink tag. I saw this one page that used the blink tag on ALL links. I fled in horror.

By the way, if you want to see nearly unreadable text, go to http://racuda.com/?id=root You can barely see anything. Make sure you tell the owner that in the shoutbox. I tried, but his friends keep saying his site rocks.

Oh, and by the way, welcome to Xisto!