Stumbling upon a site with a terribly horrifying professional website design may not be something you experience on a regular basis these days, but it does happen. It might make your head spin, your eyes water and your temples throb with indescribable pain, but always look at the sunny side of things! Despite that probably ‘traumatic’ experience, you can actually learn a lot of essential lessons about website hosting and design. You might think, ‘how is that possible?!’ But however far-fetched that idea may seem, trust us: YOU CAN! It’s just like learning from a bad experience – you don’t actually have to undergo the excruciating process if you’re smart. Instead, you can use other people’s experience to learn those crucial life lessons.
What Makes A Website Design BAD?
Well, there are too many factors that the list can go on and on forever, but let’s focus first on the initial factors that strike us the moment we land on a website. Note that these bad points can teach you a few things on how to design a web site.
1. Style
Who can deny the fact that this is generally the first thing that a user would notice? Inconsistent style will surely make any website look bad. Contrasting colors that drive one blind – who would want that? Warring fonts and chaotic mismatched elements will cause a headache to your target customers – they will not think twice about abandoning your website for good. Even the coloring and contrast on your site is of extreme importance. It is said that color schemes can affect client behavior, so avoid too flashy or too dull colors for your site. But seriously, this is your web designer’s problem – so better avoid a web designer who leans towards extremes.
2. Structure and Typography
This factor affects navigation a lot – so it reflects on the degree of user-friendliness of your website. A website with a horrendous misalignment and seemingly unplanned structure will cause your users unnecessary inconveniences. So think about this: if you were the user, would you have the patience to browse through a site with a really distasteful structure? As for the typography, this deals with your choice of fonts. Your fonts should blend perfectly with the rest of the website design or else it will result in another form of chaos.
3. Functionality
This element of website design is extremely crucial, but it usually taken for granted. Oftentimes, website designers focus too much attention on the design aspect and as a result, functionality is overlooked. But what good would a pretty website be, if it’s not fully functional? It will only serve to frustrate the users which will surely backfire on your business.