Original Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design


	Original Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
SoftYare
10-7-2007 1:07 PM
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Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for May 1996:
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Using Frames</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605a.html"><H3>2. Gratuitous Use of Bleeding-Edge Technology</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605a.html"><H3>3. Scrolling Text, Marquees, and Constantly Running Animations</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605a.html"><H3>4. Complex URLs</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605a.html"><H3>5. Orphan Pages</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605a.html"><H3>6. Long Scrolling Pages</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605a.html"><H3>7. Lack of Navigation Support</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605a.html"><H3>8. Non-Standard Link Colors</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605a.html"><H3>9. Outdated Information</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605a.html"><H3>10. 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I have written an Alertbox <A class="new" title="Alertbox May 1999:
Top Ten Mistakes Revisited" href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990502.html">revisiting these mistakes in light of subsequent changes</A>
in Web technology and Web usability.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605a.html"><P>
See also my analysis of <A class="new" title="Alertbox May 1999" href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990516.html">what sites commit these key design mistakes</A>.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605a.html"><UL>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A class="new" title="Updated list of the top-10 mistakes of all time" href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html">The ten very worst design mistakes</A> of all time

Summary based on the main elements of the other lists.
</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/high-roi.html">10 High-Profit Redesign Priorities</A>
</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/film-ui-bloopers.html">Usability in the Movies</A> -- Top 10 Bloopers
</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A class="old" title="Alertbox Nov. 2003" href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20031110.html">Most violated homepage guidelines</A>
</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A class="old" title="Alertbox May 2002" href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20020512.html">Top homepage usability guidelines</A>
</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A class="old" title="Alertbox Oct. 1999" href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/991003.html">Good deeds in Web design</A> 
</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A class="old" title="Alertbox Oct. 2005" href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html">Web design mistakes</A> (2005)
</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A class="old" title="Alertbox Dec. 2003" href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20031222.html">Web design mistakes</A> (2003)
</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A class="old" title="Alertbox Dec. 2002" href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20021223.html">Web design mistakes</A> (2002)

With cartoons.
</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A class="old" title="Alertbox May 1999" href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html">Web design mistakes</A> (1999) 
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