Welcome to the
World's Worst
Website!
This web was designed to
graphically demonstrate the most common mistakes made by new Web Page
designers.
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Where am I and
where are the links to other pages? |
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| Keep your backgrounds simple. White or light colors usually work best. Your background should not compete with the content of the page for the users attention. If you would like to use a background picture, select a picture that uses muted colors or format your picture as a watermark. Select text colors which will contrast well with the background picture. | ||||||||
  Constantly running animations can be
distracting when used excessively. There should be no more than one
animated object in your view at any time. Also in this category are
excessive, large, obnoxious
advertisements. |
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| Excessive advertisements: Aggressive pop ups, banners, flash ads and other intrusive ads annoy your visitors, make your site difficult to use and bury your message in a sea of clutter. | ||||||||
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Enjoying the
music? Your website visitors
probably won't enjoy it either. Usually, it is best to skip the tunes,
but if you must add music, be sure you provide a way for them to turn it off!
Specify the number of times it will run, or add the following tag to
the html anywhere between <HTML>
and </HTML> |
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 Unnecessary use of technology:
Splash pages which require you sit through a long download and don't
offer a 'skip intro' option. Especially torturous on a dial-up
connection. Avoid excessive or exclusive use of java script menus. |
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Fake error messages:
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| Misspelled werds and impropr punktuation, make yur web look amaturish, and unfinishd. Awlays run a spel chek befor yu uplode!!!!!! : ) | Enclosing blocks of text within borders breaks up the flow of the page and causes unnecessary distractions | |||||||
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Pictures which don't load properly could be due to improper uploading of files, improper characters in filenames or unusual formats or file extensions:
NASA releases
first images of alien spacecraft! |
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Orphan pages
provide no way back to the originating
page. These can cause users to get 'stuck.' |
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| Other Browsers & Screen Resolutions: Internet Explorer may be the most widely used browser, but it is not the only one. Others include Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Opera to name a few. Different browsers may display your page very differently. Check your website in as many different browsers as possible. Check it in various screen resolutions. Using tables may help control the layout. Avoid components which only render properly in specific browsers. | ||||||||
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Outdated information: If your website contains timely information, you need to keep it updated regularly, or remove the old stuff like the article below.
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In addition to the problems outlined above, remember DOWNLOAD TIME is one of the most important factors in your web design. Most web surfers will not wait for more than 10-15 seconds for your page to load before they move on. Use pictures sparingly or use thumbnail images. Be sure to save images in .jpg or .gif format. |
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As you can see, this text is
difficult to read. There needs to more contrast between the background
color and the text color. 
