How to make a bad website   

Entrance Tunnel

• A flashy page before you are allowed to see the homepage.

• Before having the visitor download music or video, please ask his permission.

• Either the text is important enough to be read properly, or it as just eye-candy and is an unnecessary distraction.

• Frames will confuse the search engines and slow up the loading.

• It is difficult to print the content, difficult to page back, impossible to bookmark, and confuse voice browsers.

• The rule should be to ask the minimum amount of information necessary fir the immediate objective.

• Avoid unless they are really paying you a lot of money. Particularly flashing adverts.

• Play havoc with the peripheral vision for many users, a significant amount of mental effort has to be devoted to seeing the content round the flashing

• Very few visitors are going to take the time to download a plug-in. Perhaps you could offer this on a page within the site if really necessary.

• Only justified on an art page, and even then a small thumbnail would probably be better.

• Some people have browsers set for only 256 colours. Some images look awful when viewed this way. Key images such as navigation should not have complex colours.

• A picture is worth a thousand words, but only if it contributes to the content.

• Some visitors will surf with images turned off to speed up the access. It would be nice if they can get the flavour of the site when they do this.

• Using images maps or JavaScript for links, you should also have text links perhaps at the bottom of the page.