Your mistakes can lead to other web masters’ gains; so why letting others cut profits out of your follies? Read the article below to learn about common web designing mistakes, so that you never repeat them while building your website.

Understand the difference between web pages and literary magazines
As a web designer, you should realize that there is a basic difference between the readers in the real world and the viewers of the web pages. The internet surfers have huge reputation for drifting away from site to site and it takes a few seconds before a viewer clicks away from one site to another. The web designer should keep this point in mind and stay away from doing something that has the remotest possibility of distract the visitor’s attention.

The background, the color and the fonts
As said earlier, reading stuffs on your computer monitor is separate from leisurely reading of your favorite magazine. When you a re surfing the internet, your eyes expect a soothing experience and anything that cause illegibility can distract your visitors from your site. The illegibility emanates mainly from two factors-the background and the choice of fonts. However there are certain rules of thumbs that you can apply to get rid of this particular problem:

• A multi hued background may sound very stylish, but they are a strict no-no so far as the websites are concerned. The backgrounds of web pages should always be of light color and the fonts of dark. The converse is also welcome as far as the fonts are clearly legible.
• But in case of long and descriptive contents, light colored fonts should not be used. In these cases you have to stick to dark background-light font rule for minimum strain of eyes.
• For the same reason, don’t get tempted to experiment with fonts; the standard fonts like Times New Roman or Verdana do fine with your contents. Also make sure that fonts are not too small; 10 to 12 points are just fine for the maximum legibility.

Use the graphics sensibly
For some web designers, animations and colorful graphics are short cut to success; but they are not.
In reality, these things make your site slower and that irks your visitor to death causing the exodus of traffic from your site.
But at times you can not do without them; there are times when the contents need to be accompanied by graphics. When using graphics is a must, use them in minimum possible reduced size. You can also save the graphics as gif.htm instead of jpg.htm for faster loading.

Help your visitors sail through your site smoothly
Haphazard banner ads can cause irritation of your visitors; place them in the proper places with colored text. Use the descriptive banner ads to make your visitors understand what they can expect from clicking on them.

Don’t neglect the contents

After everything, content is the king and so make sure to use informative, to the point, keyword rich content for your site.

It doesn’t matter if you are only a beginner in the art of Website designing; keep the above mentioned points in mind and you will be able to design a pro looking website in a jiffy.