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There are a few things in this world that people generally hate. Traffic, and waiting for web pages to load. This common annoyance can and should be avoided by programmers and website designers taking a little extra precaution when creating sites of what they would probably like to call “epic proportion.” I decided to write this article to express my opinion on creating simple fast and sleek designs over complex and unnecessarily complicated ones. When people surf the web they usually aren’t looking to be astonished by awesome flash pages that have an introduction that lasts over thirty seconds. Nobody is going to watch that! People surf the internet for easy access to information. If the site that they are looking at doesn’t instantly provide access to this easy information they will simply leave. Why make the internet a difficult place? There is simply no need for the internet to be like waiting in red light traffic. Not everyone in the world has $2000.00 computer and lightning fast internet connection. What may look and run flawlessly on your machine is just not going to work for the millions of other people on the web.

My first tip I’m going to give is limiting flash. With all this new technology master coders think that they must take advantage of it or the programming Gods are going to strike them down. Yes, we all know that Adobe flash CS6 is cool, and we are all humbly bowing down before you and your mastery of the software but please, get real. We want information from a sleek and simple design. The everyday web surfer isn’t going to be “wowed” by your flash design, they will be extremely annoyed and probably go into a fit of rage. So, please play it safe and keep the flash to a minimum. If you must have flash on your site do not have it as an introduction. Even if you add a “skip to homepage” button, no one is going to click it because they are already annoyed to the max. If you need flash keep it small, keep it cool.

Another thing I have realized that some people overdue is graphics and more specifically something I’d like to call the graphics to text ratio. If this ratio is weighing too heavily to one side it is going to cause someone a lot of pain and perhaps loss of eyesight. You may be wondering, how shall I fix this wretched problem? I would say that the key to restoring balance to the universe, or in this case the world wide web, is to find an acceptable medium. Find a point of equilibrium. Limit yourself to so many pictures per a certain amount of words.

Another excellent point of failure in website design is of course fonts. I myself have fallen victim to this disease many times. Who can blame us though? With access to the new Google Web Fonts and such it is so tempting to bedazzle our sites with “font pizzazz.” We bog down our sites with so many fonts it is almost certain that someone is going to break down into a seizure or at least suffer a minor headache from attempting to read what’s on your page. Adding excessive colors to the font doesn’t help either! Keep the font readable! If you must use multiple fonts try to limit yourself to 3 to 4 per page and keep them consistent with your other pages.

This all may seem like common sense but trust me, it is often overlooked. Double check your font choices and make sure you can easily read it, if necessary ask a friend to check it out and get their opinion. Please for the sanity of the common man choose a simple web design. Keep it simple. Keep it readable. Keep the people surfing on your site happy.

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Source by Kasey J Hinton