Some Common Web Design Faux Pas

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Web Design Flaws

Your web site could have critical design flaws that make it useless to the internet. That's harsh, but it's true. Many web sites designed today make no use of tips, tricks and other known facts to avoid faux pas situations that keep them from bringing out their true potential.

Is your web site one of them? If so, you can do something to fix it today.

How to Ensure Your Site Design is Flawless for the Web

When designing a web site, it's important to note that not all designs work. Sometimes designs just don't live up to their potential or the concept just falls flat on its face. When beginning to design your web site, before you create everything and add content to it, upload it to the web and view it yourself. Open up a few different browsers - or programs that simulate browser compatibility - and make sure you aren't isolating potential customers or viewers with faulty design concepts.

If at all costs, avoid framed web sites. Frames used to be all the rage, and many browsers still to this day despite the craze have problems loading and using framed web pages. Frames are clunky, tacky and not what web site designing is all about; web site designing is about being creative, original and out there, frames are nowhere near out there as they cause the page to be blocky, choppy and in some cases make content pages lose value because they're cut off and surrounded by frames.

If a concept doesn't work, don't use it, this is the easiest way to avoid any type of design flaws. If something looks wrong, remove it, unless of course you're doing it wrong. If you're doing it wrong, find out how to fix it, and then see if it works. It may be extra work on your part, but would you rather have a really cool design concept on your site or lose it because you messed it up?

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