Website Design India

Don’t annoy your visitors with pop-up windows.

Nobody likes popups. Here again, the only reason a site would have popups is because the site owner is thinking of his/her own interests rather than the readers.  We all know that when we’re browsing we hate popups, but suddenly when we switch hats and become the site owner, we lose our ability to see through the users’ eyes.  So let’s remember to put ourselves in their shoes. Which of these reactions to popups is a visitor is more likely to have?

(a) “A popup window, oh goody!  I love sites with popups!  I will make certain to bookmark this site and visit often.  I will also certainly click the ad or links in the popup because I love them so much.”(b) “@#&$! Whoever made this website obviously has no respect for me as a visitor.  When I leave here I will never come back.”

Don’t distract your visitors with blinking or scrolling text, animated GIFs, or auto-loading sound.

Animation and sounds are distracting. How can anyone concentrate on reading what’s on your site when there are things flying around the page?  It’s like trying to read a newspaper when someone’s poking you in the shoulder repeatedly.  Also, visitors who have slow connections may resent that you wasted their time by forcing them to load animations and sound files against their will.  Conventional wisdom is that people will be drawn to an animated ad, but it’s actually the opposite:  Readers who are assaulted by blinking ads are more likely to leave the site immediately without clicking on anything, and are far less likely to bookmark the site, return to it, link to it, and recommend it.