10 common misconceptions about web design

With the development of technology and the popularization of music-arranging software, some musicians in the music industry say, "Everyone is a DJ now." In fact, this sentence applies in the field of Web design is also very suitable, now more and more people think that everyone can do web designers, it seems that many people seem to design a Web page is very easy thing. Download Adobe's Dreamweaver, simple to do a navigation bar, throw a banner up, draw a few functional areas, put on the picture article is the site. This is web design? Of course, that's what a lot of people do.

But the real web design is not so simple, below to see the web Design 10 common mistakes, these misunderstandings you have?

　　1, anyone can do a good job of web design

If you ask Xiao Ming next door if he can make a website for himself, he may say that the web design he extremely easy and so on, but what he really does is probably not the same thing.

He used Dreamweaver in 1 hours to make a Web demo, don't be that bluff. The real web design is a comprehensive discipline, the collection of information architecture design, user interface design, typesetting design, color matching, font design, and many other disciplines, only really these aspects are properly taken into account in order to do the design of the Web page.

　　2, users like (or do not like) scrolling down the page

In the beginning of the network in the 1994, the original developers and designers did not foresee the appearance of the page today. Do users like or don't like scrolling down the page?

In the release of Mac OS X 10.7 released in 2011, Apple removed the downward scrolling button in the interface. In 2006, there have been data statistics, from 120,000 web browsing data extracted data for analysis, of which 76% of users open the page will not scroll down, and 22% of users will browse the entire page, rolling all the way to the end. Another 2% of users will scroll down to see.

So does it mean that the web design only needs to focus on the beginning of the 600px high content? No! This data analysis is to tell you that users prefer not to flip down, depending on your Web page is not attractive enough!

　　3, fill all the space of the page

Don't do this! White (or negative space) has a very important role, it and the Web page on the other visual elements of mutual reliance, is to build an excellent web page is an important part. There is white, to create the visual focus of the Web page, so that the design of the Web page more powerful, easier to browse and use. Want to know how to use the white? Look at Apple's official website. Of course, white is not necessarily white.

Never fill up all the corners of your Web page, and the right white is always better than this design.

　　4, all the details must be eye-catching

There is a misunderstanding about Web layout, that all the things in the Web page must be big, thick, to flash, to light (dear bosses, you lie again ...). Yes, we put the content on the site in the hope that they will be noticed and stand out from the crowd. But the problem is, if all the content and elements are bold and shiny, then nothing will stand out. Highlighting is the need for reasonable layout, difference and negative space to foil. The use of different fonts, primary and secondary content with each other, picture and text mix, high-quality content will be caught by the eye.

　　5, big logo syndrome

Yes, this is the vast majority of designers relish the big logo syndrome, which is sick, the medicine. Logo is really the user to enter the site is the most easily noticed elements, but users should pay more attention to the content of your site! When users start to pay attention to the content of the site, they no longer see your logo, when you forcibly enlarge the logo is tantamount to forcing users to focus on what they do not want to see.

　　6, the site should be in all browsers inside the effect is exactly the same

Different browser rendering mechanism is not the same, so the same Web page in different browsers will not look exactly the same, this is mainly because the site used by the kernel is not the same result. So, please accept the fact. 10,000 step back, for the vast majority of Web sites, your browser compatibility optimization is no better than to achieve the same 100%.

　　7, the paragraph on both sides of the alignment

After many people have read the book, they want the text on the page to be the same as the book, and the text can be justified. But actually, it's not realistic. And do not say that different browser rendering mechanism, a single browser, through the algorithm to force the text at both ends of the line, the English word of the length of the paragraph will obviously appear uneven density, and for Chinese, the site of a large number of text so optimization will cause similar situation, This mechanism can be used to enhance the reading experience in the body of the article, unless it is a text-based web site such as Jianshu and starting point.

As pointed out by the consortium of the Standards of the association:

"Many people with cognitive impairment have a certain reading disability when they are confronted with text that is aligned at both ends," he said. Justified text can make word spacing appear to be uneven, which makes it difficult for many people to read. To avoid this problem, the best way is to not create such a text layout, left-aligned. ”

　　8, piling up key words

Piling keyword is a very disgusting behavior, this behavior is a typical black hat technique, this kind of excessive SEO optimization method will let search engine will your site ban. If you need to do keyword optimization, according to the content of reasonable allocation, please do not repeat the input keyword, use the relevant or variant can be.

　　9, our website needs an initial page

Initial page, such as a Flash Enterprise station will do a loading page, before entering the site there will be a percentage of progress bar and there slowly running ... Yes, that's it. The more amazing is that some websites also need to jump out a button after loading, then you can enter the homepage of the website. If you are an experienced very boring online games what's also forget. But your website is not! We know that users are demanding more and more of the loading speed of the site, data statistics show that 15 seconds is already the limit. Do a good job of content and page optimization, this is the correct posture to reduce the bounce rate.

　　10, the Internet search a diagram use it

You can never predict where the search engine's pictures are coming from. Some pictures are copyrighted, if you accidentally encounter all the copyright pictures, then you will face is the other side of the claim (very strict abroad, the domestic is increasingly harsh on this piece).

If you are working for the company's designers, may wish to buy a picture library or database in the appropriate time, and then there are plenty of free image sites for you to choose from. In short, carefully control the content, do not pay unnecessary tuition fees.

Well, do you have any of these myths? I was shot anyway.