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Author: Mitone Griffith
Even if you're not an accomplished webmaster you can still have a professional looking website. You may be like I was five years ago—you're teaching yourself web design and you're starting to catch on to that HTML stuff. You're so excited about your new bag of tricks—but slow down partner, sometimes
You've worked hard to get the traffic—now don't drive them away.
1. Fatal Flaw One—Bouncing, Wiggling Animated Clip Art
This one is really annoying to website visitors, and a sure sign you don't know what you're doing, especially if you have them all over the place. Just because they're free, doesn't mean you should use them.
SOLUTION—You're probably not a graphics designer if you resort to using clip art, so don't worry about your weakness, just choose a nice color scheme instead in your tables. (More on that later.) Colors don't take extra time to download either.
2. Fatal Flaw Two—Embedded Music Clips
Good grief. Don't do this. I don't care how catchy your elevator tune is. No one wants to hear it. Sometimes speakers are turned up and a sudden blare of music will scare the heck out of your visitors. They'll probably leave!
SOLUTION—If you have a site that sells music, then people will expect to hear it sometime somewhere at your site. Make your music links clickable—a choice that visitors can make to listen!
3. Fatal Flaw Three—Unstructured Text
I can't stand it when I land on a site that I have to read from each side of my screen to the other left and right as well as up and down. Even if you want ( Next Page )
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