Yes, I am here to help you become better in your website design and management. And remember - if you use a webpage template, you can easily customize it and optimize it for SEO without spending a lot of money.

Unclear Linking - You know what I mean - no hiding your links, like if they show only when the mouse passes over them, or they are the same color as the background. This a big reason Uncle Arthur loses his temper.

Too Many Ads - It’s really ugly, and more ads does not equate with more income. Pick the best, and trash the rest.

Stupid Fonts - Use regular fonts unless you are selling your new font designs. New or obscure fonts can put the reader right off of your page.

Flash Intros - If your Flash Intros are done wrong they are much more of a hazard and a liability than a help. For some well designed and inexpensive Flash Intro Templates look at this collection.

Unlabelled Email Links - OOooooooooohhh!!! You know this drives me crazy. It’s a very bad idea to ever use a link that sends email without clearly showing it with the word “email”. If you just make clicking people’s names send email, you’ll annoy your visitors who just clicked there to find out more about the person.

Broken Links - Check all your links regularly to make sure that they all still work. There’s nothing worse than finding a site that looks useful, only to find that it hasn’t been updated in years and none of the links work any more. (Are you an idiot?)

No Marking for External Links - Make your external links a different color or font than internal links so that your visitors don’t leave your site without knowing that they will.

Wrong Size Text - Keep your text about the standard size. Making text too big or too small makes it hard for anyone to read or enjoy. (Don’t make your site look cheap and idiotic!)

Unclear Layout and Navigation - Yes, I am talking about your website - not somebody else’s! A lot of websites suffer from a big problem - where even the very simplest task takes eight steps to achieve. (Get a life!)

Plugin Overload - Keep media plugins to a maximum of one per page - that means that if you’ve got Flash, then you can’t have a media player, or if you’re using Java then you can’t have Flash. (Is your site for airheads?)

Well that’s enough for today.  You need to think these over and make any necessary changes, then we’ll talk again next week.

Use your brain for something besides shopping!
Arthur Browning