Taken from http://ejoh.zmolklife.com/2007/11/06/dont-do-this-on-your-website-it-bugs-me/ Published November 6th, 2007 
Many blog posts have been written about this problem, webmasters writing and designing in horrific ways. Yet many people, usually bloggers, do this mistake all the time. On some sites it’s so bad, their visitors starts fleeing before the entire page has loaded. Therefor I have decided to write about things you should avoid when creating your website. Long sentences, bad grammar and typos Ok im sorry i gotta say suck but ace doesnt have an army he keeps saying he does he just stinks i was on mammoth and ace was there so we were battling i was just bored so you know then the fgr leader came and helped out then tra ace ran away once then when he got back he didnt attack o and a whole bunch of random people were attacking us so thats all.
Sweet banana! When trying to read that text you meet some trouble. At first you’re struck by the incredible bad grammar and typos which makes it hard to read. On top of that you have to struggle reading a 71 words long sentence. How can that guy talk so much without breathing. I left that site right away(after copying the text) and will never ever return. This text was found on a blog on the Internet and is a typical example of what rubbish you can find. Another annoying thing is when bloggers write in teen language with shorts for everything. Off course, seeing that type of text is usually an indication that it’s not worth reading. Like myself, there are foreigners struggling with the English. As long as the text is readable I like many others can live with that. It’s the meaning that matters. You do however come across native English people from time to time that get bugged out by every grammar mistake you do. Bright colored text Bright text which is really hard to read and causes you massive headaches.
I know I can’t read text with that low contrast for very long without getting a headache. Maybe you can but shouldn’t a website be accessible for all people. I can understand if you feel a nice bright color is very neat and you think it’ll spice up your site. Consider to place that color on another place than as text color in the main content though. How about a header in that color. It’ll be easier to read and better design. Long posts, no subheadings To increase the readability of your blog you should split your posts into pieces. Divide them into sections, each with it’s own subheader. That will make the posts more visual appealing and easier to read. Also, for those users looking for something specific(probably finding your site after searching Google) they’ll find what they’re looking for quicker. Otherwise they will leave your site without finding what they were looking for and that is never good. Lack of referring to other sites (This should be done with discretion, on MyChurch) Say that you write about something interesting like a football team or a city. If your lucky and a good writer, your visitor gets very interested in this topic and wants to know more about it after reading your post. But how will he find out more? He will probably look for links in your post to other articles and when he finds none he’ll get disappointed. That is not very good is it? I think linking is very important and it always give me some irritating feeling if there are no links. Should I need to go and search Google to find out more. NO! So please make life easier for me and everybody else. LINK!!! No browser support This is the most annoying thing you could ever do. Making a website that doesn’t have support for the most common browsers. I get it if you don’t like IE 6 but there is still plenty of people using it. Also, I get angry and disappointed when the webmasters require me to get Firefox “or this site wont work”. Small text and narrow column for the main content I believe many people leave websites today because of the small fonts used so much. The whole point of text is that it should be easy to read and when you barely can see it… that meaning goes away. Imagine what funny it would look like if everyone sat with a magnifying glass by their computer. An increasing amount of blogs these days have a very narrow column for their main content. Possibly the reason is that “it looks a lot better” but I can’t say I agree with that. The text in it self is a part of the design and should be displayed as a major part on the site. After all, that is what makes it worth visiting. Read More Feel like investigating some further on this matter. There are lots of mistakes you could do and thousands of tips I would like to give you. Naturally I can’t post them all here so I’ve provided you with some great links. |
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