Make Your Site User Friendly – Part 3 of 3

A continuation of what NOT to do on your site: common mistakes that I see daily during my work as I surf the internet.

Although this is becoming more popular, I am not a fan of framed pages. I find it annoying when various parts of a page move, and other parts don’t. This also restricts the amount of information that can be available at once.

TIP: If you are looking for link partners, and your links are on a framed page, many people will reject you immediately.

Shorter pages are always better. People don’t often bother to scroll down. Spiders don’t go down very far either. If you have several ideas, make them into several pages.

If the site you are making is personal, and only for the benefit of your friends, then you can ignore this next part. Do not include pictures of yourself. To be blunt: no one cares what you look like. Unless it is a professional photograph and you look like a model, this will detract from the appearance of your site.

When sites have fancy ways to switch between pages and it occurs every time I click on one of their links, it looks amateurish, and it takes a lot longer to get from page to page. I’m going to leave their site right away.

These tips are to help you make your site look professional. A more positive tip is: pay for a really good logo. Avoiding all of the above mentioned mistakes, and using a good logo, your site will be attractive to all customers, and can still be spider-friendly.