Top Web Design Mistakes Even Professionals Can Make

Web design is an art, and it’s surprisingly easy to mess it up. 

A small mistake is more than enough to make a great looking, award-worthy site into an urgh-I’m-never-visiting-this-site-ever-again moment.

And it’s the same mistakes we see time and time again; even the pros are guilty of making them sometimes. So, availing skilled custom web design services is mandatory.

Read on to see some of the most common and the most cringe-worthy web design mistakes so you can avoid making them yourself…

Mistake #1: Disabling Zoom On Mobile Sites

This isn’t just cringe-inducing; this is headache-inducing… literally! 

If you visit a website on your mobile that you want to read, then it’s rather irritating to find that you can’t zoom in to make the text large enough.

The result is that your visitors are left squinting at a tiny block of text and more often than not they’ll just leave. 

Remember: there are now more mobile web users than desktop web users. Your site absolutely must be optimized for mobile in this day and age!

Mistake #2: Pop-Overs/Pop-Ups

Look:

Don’t get me wrong, pop-overs are OKAY. It’s the ‘when’ for pop-over displays that can be a mistake

A lot of custom web design services these days make the pop-overs ‘pop’ as soon as you arrive on the page.

So, ensure you choose the right company that knows using pop-overs.

Why would someone want to sign up to your mailing list if they haven’t even read one word written by you yet?

The whole point of content marketing is to show how you can deliver value and then to try and get people to subscribe.

It has its benefits. There’s no denying that. But consider preventing the box from showing until visitors have been on the page for a couple of minutes.

There is one thing worse than an early pop-up.

The worst kind is the non-mobile-friendly one. Your user is literally stuck looking at the pop-over, and the ‘x’ button doesn’t work. Don’t let this happen!

Mistake #3: Autoplaying Videos With Sound

If you have a video embedded on your website then turn autoplay off. Or at the very least, remove the sound.

While you might think that blaring sound out at people as soon as they load your page is a good way to get attention, it’s actually a much better way to get your site closed immediately. 

Most people browse multiple sites at once and when they hear the noise, they’ll just look for the one with the sound icon next to it and hit ‘close’.

A lot of people also like listening to their own music while they browse, so they won’t hear your video properly anyway, and it will just come out as a garbled mess.

The most experienced company offering you custom web design services wouldn’t make this mistake. So, choose the right expert carefully.

Mistake #4: Too Many Big Images

If your page has too many large images, it can be slow to load and slow to scroll. 

If it comes down to featuring yet another massive image or letting your site load and run faster, then go for the latter. 

Otherwise, people won’t want to go there because they won’t have the patience!