Web Design Mistakes That Somehow Still Happen

One of the great advantages of the Internet is how it theoretically lasts forever. If no one decides to remove it, it can persist indefinitely as a weird digital museum.

However, when today's websites use these elements, it's not that interesting. Hundreds of different fonts, bad backgrounds, and small, low-quality images. Imagine how crazy it is to use these aspects in the 2018 website. It does happen, and it is much more frequent than you think.

With this in mind, there are five bad web design mistakes, and even a talented web design expert will still appear from time to time. It can be said that if your website is using any of these aspects, then it may be time to consider the update.

 1.Garnish color

I think that in the past 20 years, web developers have learned a lot about color theory, and most of the time, they have it. Using free colors, usually subtle or soft tones, helps to add visual style to the design and is now the norm.

Then there are websites that think the color is the most important aspect of the site, not the content. Then these sites will push it to you. The website has a bright red or bright green layout. These sites are a visual nightmare, and no web design experts make these choices, so we can only hope that they are caused by aggressive customers.

 2.Too many fonts

Choosing the right font can do a lot of things for a piece of text. It can be presented in a professional manner (Arial), perhaps with more features (Papyrus), or it can be a cartoon to attract children (Comic Sans), while Sans Serif fonts are theoretically easier to read on the screen.

With all these possibilities, it's hard to know which one to choose. If you want to have different meanings in every paragraph of text on the screen? Why, of course, use 30 different fonts!

No, don't do that. I use irony to explain something. Too many fonts on the screen can be confusing because each style is competing for attention. When your eyes jump from one font to another, the text itself loses any traffic, not the content itself.

3.Music

The music on the site is one of the most memorable aspects of the site in the early 21st century. MySpace is the most prominent criminal who can add his own songs to your profile. The idea is to let visitors know who you are and your personality.

People have been doing this for years, even though they know that whenever they enter someone else's profile, the first thing they do is to turn off any terrible music. Adding music to your pages distracts, and anything you choose is unlikely to appeal to every (or any) visitor you get. However, the most important thing is that it changed the user's first thought:

"What a lovely website. What should I look at first?"

"How can I turn this terrible music over?"

This is called "starting from the wrong foot."

4.Background

As I mentioned on the Space Jam website, it has a terrible spatial background, and bright stars distract you. Ok, guess what? This background is still in use. Space themes are certainly not very common, but there are still dark backgrounds with repeating patterns on many websites. They distract themselves, even if the pattern is made up of commercial signs, it will destroy the layout and themes, seemingly unimaginable teenagers.

The background should usually be a block color, usually light or faded. Then, this highlights and compliments the content, not competing with it.

5.Confusing navigation:

Augmented Reality Games (ARG) play online, usually on a seemingly innocent website. ARG is a story that spans multiple websites. Readers must interact with the site, search around, solve problems along the way, and continue to tell stories. For these games, site navigation is deliberately embarrassing because it poses a challenge for players.

Unless your website runs ARG and I really doubt it is, you should have clean, simple navigation. Your users have not yet interacted with the site and it is difficult to find the part of the site they want. Any web design expert who deserves their salt should be able to create a simple website design that highlights a simple and enjoyable user experience.

These five elements are taboo in the field of web design. If you think your website even uses one of these elements, then you should consider updating your website.