The worst mistakes of any design for a webpage are many but this list of mistakes shows you the real fatalities. Any one of these can hurt or finish your website with visitors or customers - so proceed with caution dear reader as we look into the crypts of certain webpage death.

1- Nasty Color Schemes - Some pages irritate the viewer’s eyeballs and they simply have to move on, leaving you to twist, alone in your agony.

2- Spelling & Grammar Problems - If you want to spell out A-M-A-T-E-U-R to your viewers don’t check the spelling and grammar.

3- Poor Font Style and Size - Go ahead, just leave it dorky, nice big goofy website right? Rigghhhht!

4- Freakout Music - Feeling dramatic are we??? Well, if you take it out on your visitors’ eardrums guess who’s drama turns into a tragedy?

5- Didn’t Test the Website - Didn’t want to see how your website looks in all the browsers? This is a very strong hint from Uncle Arthur now!

6- Ugly Layout and Design - Just cause you like to look at fecal waste films doesn’t mean any of your visitors would enjoy that particular motif. Have just a little good taste here!

7- Non-Standard Links - So you like to jazz everything up and keep people guessing? Different types and colors for your links? Wheeeeeee! Holiday for airheads.

8- Stupid Navigation - Yeeaaah! Moving targets and trailing crap! Unlabelled floating objects with no links mixed with other floating objects with hidden navigation links! What sport!

9- Slow Loading Pages - Better design a super interesting load meter, right? So people can watch you load that mammoth onto their computer? It’s like watching the Titanic - and your sinking.

10- Stupid Texts - Didn’t put your words in the right order? - “Content is King.” Some visitors and spiders are really stupid too. Huh?

11- No New Content - If there is no new content then the visitors and search engines no longer need to visit your website (Hint, Hint)

12- Too Many Clicks - What if your visitors don’t like to click on page after page to get to what they are looking for? Well, that’s just real tough stuff for them isn’t it?

13- Hidden Contact Information - Playing hard to get? Yes, you’re special, very special, in a fatal kind of way.

14- Bad Hosting Services - Well, some people like hard to remember URLs and cheap looking webistes.

15- Loads of Ads - Keeping a forest of ads looks very professional, doesn’t it? It lets the visitor know you can’t make any money with your ads and that your website can’t just provide information or a service.

16- Poor Images - Don’t mind if visitors see your ugly pictures? Leave ‘em different sizes, poor quality, badly cropped, too small or too large file size, etc.

17- Website Best Viewed At - Don’t advertise that you are a beginner.

18- No Prices - If you sell something do not expect visitors to waste their time sending email inquiries on your prices. Include a price with the item description.

If you will just pay attention to Uncle Arthur when he talks you won’t make those fatal mistakes.

Surfing Safely Through Bad Internet Neighborhoods,
Arthur Browning