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Bad Web Design

Below are features / practices that can make a bad web design.
  • Backgrounds
    - Default gray color
    - Color combinations of text and background that make the text hard to read (dark background with dark text vice versa) 
    - Busy, distracting backgrounds that make the text hard to read
 
  • Text
    - Text that is too small to read (font size that smaller than 10 is hard to read)
    - Text crowding against the left edge
    - Text that stretches all the way across the page
    - Centered type over flush left body copy
    - Paragraphs of type in all caps
    - Paragraphs of type in bold
    - Paragraphs of type in italic
    - Paragraphs of type in all caps, bold, and italic all at once
    - Underlined text that is not a link
 
  • Links
    - Default blue links
    - Blue link borders around graphics
    - Links that are not clear about where they will take you
    - Links in body copy that distract readers and lead them off to remote, useless pages
    - Text links that are not underlined so you don't know they are links
    - Dead links/ broken links (links that don't work anymore)
 
  • Graphics
    - Large graphic files that take long time to load
    - Meaningless or useless graphics
    - Thumbnail images that are nearly as large as the full-sized images they link to
    - Graphics with no alt labels
    - Missing graphics with no alt labels 
     
  • Tables
    - Borders turned on in tables
    - Tables used as design elements, especially with extra large (dorky) borders
 
  • Blinking and animations
    - Anything that blinks, especially text
    - Multiple things that blink
    - Rainbow rules (lines)
    - Rainbow rules that blink or animate
    - "Under construction" signs, especially of little men working
    - Animated "under construction" signs
    - Animated pictures for e-mail
    - Animations that never stop
    - Multiple animations that never stop
 
  • Junk
    - Counters on pages--who cares
    - Junky advertising
    - Having to scroll sideways 
    - Too many little pictures of meaningless awards on the first page
    - Frame scroll bars in the middle of a page
    - Multiple frame scroll bars in the middle of a page
 
  • Navigation
    - Unclear navigation; over complex navigation
    - Complicated frames, too many frames, unnecessary scroll bars in frames
    - Orphan pages (no links back to where they came from, no identification)
    - Useless page titles that don't explain what the page is about
 
  • General Design
    - Frames that make you scroll sideways
    - No focal point on the page
    - Too many focal points on the page
    - Navigation buttons as the only visual interest, especially when they're large
    - Cluttered, not enough alignment of elements
    - No Cross Browser - Pages that look okay in one browser but not in another

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