| As a web designer, you should design your websites | | | | design. |
| to give your visitors the greatest ease of use, the | | | | Hence, I have highlighted some features of the |
| best impression and most important of all a | | | | worst web designs I've come across. Hopefully, you |
| welcoming experience. | | | | will be able to compare that against your own site as |
| It doesn't matter if you had the greatest product in | | | | a checklist and if anything on your site fits the |
| the whole world -- if your website is poorly done you | | | | criteria, you should know it's high time to take serious |
| won't be able to sell even one copy of it because | | | | action! |
| visitors will be driven off your website by the lousy | | | | 1) Background music |
| design. | | | | Unless you are running a site which promotes a band, |
| When I'm talking about a "good design", I'm not only | | | | a CD or anything related to music, I would really |
| talking about a good graphical design. | | | | advise you to stay away from putting looping |
| A professional web design will be able to point out | | | | background music onto your site. |
| that there are many components which contribute to | | | | It might sound pleasant to you at first, but imagine if |
| a good website design -- accessibility design, interface | | | | you ran a big site with hundreds of pages and |
| or layout design, user experience design and of | | | | everytime a visitor browses to another page on your |
| course the most straightforward, which is graphic | | | | site, the background music starts playing again. |