Scary web design you must avoid!

1. Inconsistant use of Fonts and Colours

Annoying isn’t it, the rule with fonts and font colours is to pick one and stick with it throughout your entire website.

Changing the font and colours will confuse your users, making them ask “is it highlighted text? A link? Both?”

Not only that but it looks a mess, don’t make your website look horrendous.

2. Highlighting Text

For some very strange reason I still see this practice from time to time. Back in the 90’s this was very popular for amateur websites in an attempt to look cool and unique. These days it is just an eyesore and can be very difficult for the user when scary colour combinations exist.

Struggling to read this?

Does this look nice?

Simple and Clean, is always the best.

3. Scrolling and Blinking text

We know you want us to read the content but making it blink isn’t a nice effect. Neither is having the content scrolling.

Don’t scare your customers off, keep your content still and not blinking. If you want the content to stand out simply put it in bold.

4. Unnecessary use of Flash and animated GIFs

Flash can make your website look cool and unique but too much or worse pointless Flash will have a negative effect on the usability.

Flash and GIFs take time to load up, slowing down the entire usability making them wait to see pointless moving images that have no relevance to your business.

5. Cluttered pages

Cluttered pages and text makes it difficult for the users to figure out what’s important. If you are struggling to fit something into your website it’s probably too crowded.

Make sure everything on your website is relevant and not just full of pointless gimmicks, also space out your content. Excessive long paragraphs and close spacing isn’t just difficult to read but also boring.

Avoid doing this:

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6. Sound, especially without ON/OFF or volume controls

Again this may seem like a cool idea but when you are in the office this couldn’t be more annoying. The majority of your users will probably be searching for properties well they are at work.
Don’t make it difficult for them.

7. Slow loading images, Flash, etc

Having to wait for webpage’s to load is excruciatingly painful, these days with fast internet connections if you have to wait more than a few seconds for a page to fully load then there is something wrong with your website.

If large images or flash are causing problems you may have to rethink your websites design.