What NOT to do if you’re a DIYer

Don’t put a lot of graphics and animations on your website.
Not only will it make your site difficult to be found, but it will also take forever to load. A BIG no no. Think to yourself, how long do you sit and wait for a website to load before leaving it from frustration?

Don’t experiment with all kinds of fonts and colors.
If the colors are too close in the color wheel, make you strain your eyes, or you can barely read the information, chances are you’ve chosen incorrectly. Choose 2-3 colors as your base for design. Usually black or even better, dark grey for your text, one complimenting color for a heading, and then possibly a third as an accent color. Keep ALL your link colors the same. Once a person visits your home page and sees teal green links, don’t go changing the links up to be orange.

Don’t go crazy at first.
Even though there are tons of cool things out there to add to your site, you don’t need every widget, photo, feed or whatever. Give your visitors what they expect and don’t annoy them with things they don’t. Doing so will show that you’ve done the site yourself, in your basement, at 2 in the morning when you have nothing else to do.

Don’t use “Welcome to blah blah blah” in the first line of your text.
We know where we are at, and we’re hoping you’re going to be welcoming. So start off with an important keyphrase to help the search engines find you.

I hope this helps the DIYers out there a little. There is a lot more to creating a kick-ass website than this, but hopefully it will deter your visitors from running away screaming, never wanting to do business with you.

If you want professional recommendations and a FREE website development proposal and design concept, feel free to contact us at info@graphxevolution.com or call 570-647-8301 and we’ll be happy to help you out.