Those making websites, especially those making themselves instead of using a professional web design agency, often make the same mistakes, with these being the main ones to avoid:

Do not center everything on your website pages because doing so creates an unprofessional look. The books and magazines that you read always use a full page left to right layout for text, so why should web pages be any different? When visitors are faced with a large amount of centered text, they think it looks odd and may click on their web browser’s back button because they simply are not used to the look of large chunks of text which has been centered.

Choosing background music for your site can create problems because first of all you will not find music which is satisfying to everyone and secondly the site will take much longer to load. Visitors may wait for the site to load, but they will soon leave if they are being forced to listen to music that they do not like. If you really think that music is necessary then make it optional by having a play button located in a prominent spot at the top of your site’s pages.

Do not use JavaScript for any critical elements of your web pages since about a fifth of all Web users are not able to or do not want to run JavaScript. If something prominent on your site is not working when someone visits it then those people seeing it will assume that you site is unprofessional or outdated as you cannot be bothered to fix the problems with it. The use of JavaScript, then, means that you might lose twenty percent of your visitors before they have looked over the content of your web pages.

Do not design a full flash website if you want high rankings in search engines because search engines, not being able to read the content on flash websites, tend not to rank these types of sites as highly as mainly text and image based sites. But as long as you make certain there is a large amount of text included on your site, you do not have to leave flash out entirely. As the very best sources of bringing traffic to your website are Yahoo, Google, and Bing, do not disregard the advice given above as you will then get very few visitors to your site.

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