We have been working with Websites By Kristen for over 3 years now & truly have enjoyed building a great relationship with the company. They are fast, experienced, smart and we just work really well together. Yesterday, Websites By Kristen posted a blog entry that I found to not only be one filled with great advice, but also one that made me laugh out loud – several times. Check out the entry below and be prepared to have a good giggle.
Top 10 Things I HATE To Put in A Website
Lets face it, there’s a lot of ugly websites out there. The Oatmeal published one of my favorite articles about the life of a web designer which can be found here: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell. There is a fine balance between doing what you know is best as a professional web designer and doing what your client wants in order to please them.
Most of the time you can come to a happy medium, but sometimes you just have to give in and do what the client’s wallet wants or risk not getting paid for your work. I definitely have several websites I have completed that I feel are not worthy of my portfolio because my client butchered a really good design with crazy web crap. So here’s a fun little list of the top 10 things I HATE to put in a website.
1. Animated Gifs. These were cool in 1992 on a personal geocities website… not in 2010 on a professionally designed business website. I would rather fire myself from a job than have 60 dancing bananas all over a website I designed.
… kill me now…
2. Scrolling marquee text. People hate to read, so why would you want to force them to read MOVING TEXT!! So counterproductive….
Websites by Kristen does not condone the use of scrolling marquee’s. Make it stop!!!!
3. Large font size… I’m sorry, but most people can read 12-14 point font. Just because you are blind and can’t read your own website doesn’t mean the rest of the world can’t. That’s why they make accessibility tools in your browser.
Your body text font should not be this big! If you think it should, get some glasses!
Read the last of the list by clicking here. Thank you Kristen Kirby for this post!
