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Designing a website can be a lot of fun and a rewarding experience. It requires creativity and an investment of time. But if you somehow manage to pull it off, if you could design a great website that attracts a lot of traffic, you’ll be getting projects left and right in no time at all. Web design can be a lucrative hobby, if anything.

So unless you’re looking to break into the world of professional eating, here are a few things you need to avoid when designing a website.

1. Be too high tech

The Internet is all about being modern and hip and trendy. People exchange pieces of information all the time, and news travels lightning fast from one side of the world to the other side.

But put that aside, being too high tech, too cutting edge, isn’t necessarily a good thing when it comes to web design. Sure, 3-D graphics and Avant garde encoding is impressive, but if it starts interfering with browser compatibility and other things, you’re doing more harm to your cause than good. And visitors tend not to visit websites a second time when it gave them problems the first time.

2. Crash your visitor’s web browser

There’s nothing fun about visiting a website that promises to make you lose weight without leaving your computer, only to be greeted by a window message that says your web browser has crashed and needs to restart. And with multiple browser tabs these days, restarting one browser window can be quite a pain.

As a web designer, make sure your Java or JavaScript codes are flawless and written is such a way that it doesn’t cause someone to pull his hairs out every time your website is visited.

3. Use audio sounds on a corporate website

Sound on a website is fine if you’re visiting a website promoting a new Hollywood blockbuster film, or a website about video games, etc. But for corporate websites you need to maintain an aura of professionalism, and putting sounds on a business website is doing the exact opposite of that. Go ahead and use sounds and see how far that gets your new business website.

4. Incorporate too many images

Images can slow down the loading of your website. Sometimes it could even cause compatibility issues with certain web browsers, but I digress. Given the average attention span of someone who’s used to browsing at 20Mbps Internet speed, it is easy to tick someone off and have them not visit your website at all if it takes ages to load your homepage alone. Your other pages aside from your homepage will never see the light of day.

Try to minimize the amount of images you incorporate into your website. If an image isn’t necessary, don’t put it in. Unless you’re an image-hosting website, visitors probably came to your website to read the content anyway.

Stay away from these web design faux pas and you’ll be creating great, professional-looking websites in no time.

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