10 Web Design and Usability Mistakes to Avoid
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 |Looking for that web2.0’sh look for your website? It is now a trend everyone is now converting their pages into CSS and standards compatible pages, but still the majority of pages that you find on internet are badly designed. There are few biggest mistakes that one can make while creating website designs.
1. Slow-loading Web pages
One of the prime mistakes that is common with both beginners and professional websites is that people do not optimize there pages for the loading time, many use magazine like images which are large in size and uncompressed graphics. By keeping large graphics files the web page is bound to be slow loading. The page if carefully designed this blunder can be avoided.
2. Table layout
Tables Layout are still very common, these are structural elements and are not complaint with W3C. It is a wise thing to use CSS for layout instead of tables on your website, as it will make it accessible to all devices like PDAs, car browsers and Webtvs. You must test how your website looks on a mobile phone screen. CSS can be modified to adjust on each screen size and resolution type. Using CSS for layout also benefits on ranking better on search engines and also enable quicker loading pages
