When getting your website designed there are a few things that you need to take in consideration in order to avoid getting changes again and again later on, wasting both your time and money. Web design requires planning; it is good to know beforehand what you want in your website before moving to the next step. Below are a few web design mistakes that you must avoid.

Too Much Animation

It is okay to have some animation on your website, this include animated gif images, scrolling text marquees or flash animations. These are good to keep your website alive, but try not to have too much as it can be a turnoff to your visitors. Some flash animations can take some time to load, no one would wait too long when searching for information online. If you have your whole website in flash you may have already guessed why it is not converting as you expected.

Use of Frames

Frames can be good to organize a page but there are definitely worse than good associated with the use of frames. It is more complicated for a user to bookmark the page and return to it later on. A user might find him a bit lost if he is not technical. Thinking that the website is not working well, he will surely not come back.

Orphan Pages

Many websites have those pages that are not any other page. Some of those orphan pages do not link to other pages and neither to the homepage. They serve no real purpose. Keeping these pages live can be bad as they may still be listed in search engines and bringing traffic, the best to do is redirect them to the homepage of your website or any other page that can be more appropriate.

Blank Pages

If you are getting a dynamic website, you will probably have the option to update your pages and content via a custom CMS (Content Management System) provided by your web design firm. Some CMS will have all your pages created with your navigation tree so you can update them later on. This is not a good thing as those pages have nothing on and serve no purpose unless you add content. Best is to be able to add new pages only when you need them. Talk to your web design firm on what type of CMS you want.

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