10 Rules of Website Design

1. K.I.S.S
Keep It Simple, Stupid. This means that your website should do the job that you
want it to, and no more. If you’re going to think that you can have affiliate
page after affiliate page before someone gets to your content, then you’re not
going to convert anything and your site will not be very surfer friendly. Keep
the javascript tricks to a minimum, and do not, for any reason, install a script
that will prevent someone from right clicking and saving an image on your website.
THEY NEVER WORK! There is not a single way that you can embed media into a website,
that I can’t get it and save it to my computer. In fact, do not use any Javascript
that will change the browsing experience for your visititors. EVER.

2. Check your links
Broken links not only look bad, but they will undermine what you’re trying to
accomplish

3. Cross Browser Compatibility
Internet Explorer is not the only browser in town. Check Firefox, Opera, Safari,
and anything else you can think of.

4. Not everyone has broadband
Cut down on image size, make sure you’re page is not 100% graphics, and never,
ever use PDF’s.

5. The rule of 2
2 mouse clicks should bring every visitor to where he can see your content sample
and choose to pay. Make the links obvious, but do not make it the only thing
on the page.

6. Animated Gifs
Use these ONLY if you really need to show something in motion, and never more
than 1 or 2 on a page, MAX.

7. Iframes
Iframes do not play well with any search engine, so don’t use them.

8. Design Vomit
If your pages look like a porn store threw up on it, then your visitors will
go somewhere else.

9. Text images
If you have text on your website, it should be text, not an image of the text.
Search engines can’t read pictures.

10. Size
I will decide what size I want my web browser to be, thank you very much.