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Your web site may suck if:

Posted 3 February 2010 - 1:08pm by smithereenz
  1. It was designed using an online site builder
  2. You have free hosting
  3. You have to explain to people how to navigate it
  4. It was designed by your cousin, nephew, or 'some guy you know'
  5. Your web site has a domain name so long and complex that no one can remember it
  6. It was created using Microsoft FrontPage
  7. It forces people to scroll horizontally
  8. It has gratuitous use of bleeding-edge technology... especially if you bragged about it
  9. You never bothered to check your spelling
  10. It has scrolling 'marquee' text anywhere
  11. It has any blinking or flashing anything
  12. It doesn't have consistent navigation (Don't assume that users know as much about your site as you do. They always have difficulty finding information, so they need support in the form of a strong sense of structure and place)
  13. Your web designer can't figure out why your site doesn't work on other people's computer
  14. You didn't know your site was supposed to work on other browsers or operating systems
  15. All or most of your text is centered
  16. Pages take minutes to load
  17. Your pages are nothing more than large images
  18. Your users have to scroll just to find the navigation or the name of the site
  19. You’re using Flash or other bell and whistles just because they 'look cool'
  20. You’re selling shoes and your site looks like you're promoting a movie (too flashy for your product)
  21. You decided to take over the designers’ job and over-tweaked everything
  22. You added a page about your dog
  23. Your pages have too much empty space
  24. Your pages don't have enough empty space
  25. You made up content to make it look bigger
  26. It has long lines of text (newspapers use about 12 words per line because it's easier to read)
  27. Most of your underlined text isn’t links
  28. It has orphaned pages (pages that don't link back to anywhere)
  29. You have "under construction" anywhere, especially if it's an animation of little men working
  30. It has a visible counter (your audience will not be impressed. If you're popular, you won't need to show it)
  31. It has too many banners
  32. It features free functionality from sites such as Bravenet
  33. If you're using red text on a blue, background or vice versa (the hardest combination of colours to the human eye)
  34. You don't have any Meta tags
  35. You have code disabling the right click button
  36. It has a song playing in the background and the stop button is difficult to find
  37. You’re using plug-ins that no one has
  38. You use fancy JavaScript that alters the size of the viewer’s browser window
  39. You’ve hidden text by making it the colour of the background to increase your search engine ranking (they figured that out years ago)
  40. Your text is only a few shades brighter than the background colour
  41. The prices for your products are on a different page than the product
  42. You don't inform the viewer of shipping charges or which credit cards you take
  43. Your site employs "mouse trails" of bunnies or butterflies... hell, anything for that matter
  44. You use fade-in's or other Microsoft specific browser gimmicks that take too long and generally annoy everyone
  45. Your background is or uses: default Gray colour or distracting backgrounds
  46. Uses paragraphs of type in: all caps, all bold, all italic, or caps, bold, and italic all at once
  47. You have links in body copy that distract readers and lead them off to remote, useless pages
  48. You use borders for tables
  49. It uses rainbow rules
  50. You display meaningless web design awards anywhere
  51. You have frame scroll bars in the middle of a page
  52. It has multiple frame scroll bars in the middle of a page

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