Tsuki has another question and refuses to just get LJ

[lord_tenrai]

Tsuki says: I'm trying to design a website for my business.
Tsuki asks: What do you all hate when you're browsing websites?
What do you all really like when browsing websites?

That is all...

... and now for something completely different

Comments

[tokoz]

I side with Eric: Contact information should be prominently displayed and kept up-to-date. And to include as many forms of contact info as ways in which you'd like to be contacted. It boggles my mind when I go somewhere to look for a mailing address only to find a dead email address. O_o I also like a "home" button that's prominent and easy to get to. Nothing bothers me more than getting into a site, and then not being able to get out without tons and tons of back-button hits. And dead links. stubs are fine, but dead links are rude.

If you decide to sell your work online, make sure you have a PayPal account and for that, make sure your domain name provider allows commercial sites under the package you've bought.

OTOH, I don't mind scrolling a bit to look at pictures on an artist's website. If you put gallery pictures on your site, though, you'll want to watermark them somehow. And I think black text on a white BG is better than some of the colored alternatives. It has the benefit of being classic, and uniform across all platforms.

The last thing i suggest is try out your site on as many different computers, desktop sizes, and browsers as possible. Everything from colors to the terms understood by the browsers changes from computer to computer. It's really irksome to go somewhere and read "sorry this site only works with IE, and at 18000 x 24000 desktops kthxbai!" Some of us don't have monitors big enough to use the large desktops grr....