Popups are annoying
With your brand new small business website, you have the choice to use popups. Please don’t, they are so annoying to your visitors and there are few things that will drive them away quicker. They interrupt your browsing experience and serve little purpose. We have all been there. You browse to a site and there it is, a popup. You kill it and if you are really unlucky, you will get another...
Read MoreMusic on your professional website
For most business and professional websites, background music is best avoided. If you are not selling music or music services then it is best if you do not include background music when building your new website. There are a number of reasons why and these are: Your music most likely will not be to the taste of your visitors. There is nothing more annoying, apart from popups, than to have to...
Read MoreHidden text and links in web design
There are a number of deceitful ways to attempt to improve your page ranking in search engines. To anyone trying this, don’t. You are taking a huge risk. Hiding text and links in your web design content may cause your website to be perceived as untrustworthy and subsequently your site may be removed from the search engines such as Google. The sort of tricks that people may try include:...
Read MoreFlash Websites and why you shouldn’t use them.
Do you currently have a Flash based website or are you considering building one? My suggestion is DON’T. Flash websites can look great. They often have great animations, pictures and nice sound but they have a problem and it is a big problem. Flash sites generally do not rank well and if your great looking website is not going to rank well, then you are wasting your time and money. So why...
Read MoreWebsites – things to avoid
What are the most annoying things that happen to you when you are browsing a website, here is our list. Popups, these are the junk mail of the internet. Don’t go there, they are most annoying. Difficult to navigate websites. Everything should be within 3 clicks. If it is too difficult, people browsing will move on. Slow loading websites. Also annoying and yet some of the biggest companies...
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