Designing Don'ts

1. Don't confuse the viewer. Keep the site consistently designed. For different pages and sections the navigation tools and graphics need to look the same throughout. Make sure the viewer knows they are on the same site when surfing your web pages.

2. Be organized with navigation. Make sure your buttons and navigational directions are simple and clear. Be consistent in these from page to page.

3. Don't make oversize pages. Research shows that 50% of all computers used for the internet use 13" monitors, designers often use 17" - 21" monitors, 'size matters", keep to 480x640 pixels.

4. Don't design pages that require scrolling. This makes it painful and impossible to read in a hurry. Browsers will never scroll, they are more likely to press a button and keep going. Shorter pages break up content to bite size pieces this is more appealing to the viewer.

5. Don't use big, slow graphics. No one wants to wait a minute for art or seven minutes for a video; the only acceptable delay when it comes to the web is no delay.

6. Go monochromatic. Monochromatic pages frankly look better and run faster. Web clutter is typified by free wheeling use of color. Use one or two colors, not all of them.

7. Don't overdo text. Web browsers skim and surf, if you don't give them something quickly they absorb nothing.

8. Don't use tiny type. It is very hard to read small type on a computer, make everything bigger than you would print. If you want to get noticed on the web make it easy and clear to read.

9. Don't navigate by type. Navigate by image, it's less confusing and never dull.

Useful Tools:   GIF Animation   Adobe Studio

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