This website will list helpful tips on good
features of a website and bad features of a website. If you are creating a
webpage, take some time to read over these tips and your website will come out
looking as if you are a pro. These tips are useful in making various types of
websites.
Bad web site
Features
Text is too
small to read.
Text crowding
against the left edge.
Text that
stretches all the way across the page.
Misspelled
words.
Dead links.
Busy background.
Constant moving
animations.
Excessive
advertisements.
Outdated
information.
Hard to navigate
around the page.
Slow loading
site.
Images do not
appear.
Too many
animations.
Paragraphs in
all bold, italics, caps.
Underlined text
that isn't a link.
Anything that
blinks, especially text.
Frames that make
you scroll sideways.
Graphics that
don't fit on the screen.
Complicated
frames, too many frames, unnecessary scroll bars in frames.
Orphan pages (no
links back to where they came from, no identification).
Good Web Site
Features.
Background does
not interrupt the text.
Text is big
enough to read, but not to big.
The hierarchy of
information is perfectly clear.
Columns of text
are narrower than in a book to make reading easier on the screen.
Navigation
buttons and bars are easy to understand and use.
Navigation is
consistent throughout the website.
Navigation
buttons and bars provide the visitor with a clue as to where they are, and
what page of the site they are currently on.
Frames, if used,
are not obtrusive.
A large site has
an index or site map.
Link colors
coordinate with the page colors.
Links are
underlined so they are instantly clear to the visitor.
Page downloads
quickly.
Good use of
graphic elements to break up large area of text.
Every webpage in
the site looks like it belongs to the same site.
Animated
graphics turn off by themselves.
Buttons are not
big and dorky
Avoids hidden
text and hidden links.
Every graphic
has an alt label
Page doesn't
download things automatically.
Page doesn't
install viruses, Trojans, or other bad ware.
Bad Web Site
This is a bad website because it is to busy. Also because the music has no way
of being stopped and the information is outdated.
Good Web Site
This is a good website because it is all laid out so that you can find your way
around it without any problems. It is a simple website where everything is
stated clearly.
