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Web site creation error evolution

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Changing times, changing the concept of the Internet, and technology is changing, but the problem remains the same. Clearly, web design does not exist 100% of the rules, each article is written in a more or less subjective. Depending on the site’s objectives, the new site you can turn upside down all those rules upside down, so it is a work of art, or vice versa shocking visitors. However, there are several excepts:

  • the consumer is not better for the stability - ie, the user is accustomed to a certain action, which he carried out surfing the web, so if the site is not, or will be implemented, otherwise the normal function of the user, the potential option, the user simply leaves the page;
  • a kind of “format” - that is to say the user must recognize the news portal in news portal.

Dr. Jakob Nielsen is one of the best known web usability consultants in the world. It consists of 1996 web site creation a dozen errors. These errors reflect laikmetį and the technologies used.
All the errors listed below are well known and frequent reader will be seen somewhere, but they still occur even in the leading web developers work.

Year

Mistakes

Time facts

1996
  1. frames using;
  2. unjustified use of new technologies;
  3. text, movement, and nictitation continuous animations;
  4. addresses complex;
  5. Pages orphan;
  6. pages long;
  7. the lack of navigational aids (the site map, search, etc.);
  8. non-standard link colors;
  9. outdated information;
  10. long page loading.

more: the top ten web design mistakes of 1996

  1. predominantly personal web pages;

  2. the emergence of intelligent search engines: Yahoo! (1995), AltaVista (1995);

  3. 1995, The United States was reported in about 1,000 companies užsiemančių web development;

    valid html 3.0 standard;

  4. css popularity time (in December 1996, the W3C recommended css1 specification);
  5. new technologies to create dynamic pages (perl 5, which is used up to now, the PHP version 1)

1999
  1. complicate the Back button (the “back”) use;
  2. Opening new browser windows;
  3. non-standard user interface elements of the use;
  4. Biographies shortages;
  5. Lack of archive;
  6. pages to the new address;
  7. header, which not related to the page content;
  8. willingness to adapt the latest technology;
  9. Great response time of servers;
  10. everything looks like an ad.

more: the top ten web design mistakes of 1999
  1. commercialization of the Internet;
  2. Internet banking;
  3. 1999, access to the Internet had 28% of European companies in the business;
  4. Browsers fight;
  5. flash technology, the Java applet popularity time

2002
  1. is not the price;
  2. rigid search;
  3. horizontal slip (English scroling);
  4. Fixed font size;
  5. blocks of text (press the rules of the use of the Internet);
  6. javascript use of references;
  7. infrequently asked questions in the “frequently asked questions” section;
  8. illegal e-mail. e-mail collection;
  9. long addresses (over 75 characters);
  10. links to e-mail. E-mail address in bad places;

more: the top ten web design mistakes of 2002
  1. e-commerce boom and the wave of bankruptcies;
  2. Spam problem;
  3. Internet applications for disabled people question (in 1999 the W3C WCAG 1.0 Web sites tailored to the development of recommendations for disabled persons);
  4. html 4.01 (the end of 1999), which used up to now.
  5. JavaScript version 1.5 - the first version, which supports all popular browsers

2003
  1. unclear objectives;
  2. new addresses of the displaced items in the archive;
  3. information is not updated;
  4. large thumbnails of photos,
    alt text is very detailed;
  5. comparison, or the lack of freedom of choice;
  6. long lists without a filter, according to certain attributes, opportunities;
  7. Products are sorted only according to the manufacturer;
  8. ‘Restrictive’ form;
    references to “save”

more: the top ten web design mistakes of 2003
  1. “Dot.com bubble” explosion consequences: decreased interest in the Internet.
  2. deadline extended to Rich Internet Application Origin;

2005
  1. the problem with readability;
  2. non-standard links;
  3. flash;
  4. the content is written at the web site;
  5. Blog Search;
  6. Browser incompatibility;
  7. massive form;
    Contact us, or the absence of other information;
  8. fixed-width site layouts;
    wrong photo to enlarge.

more: the top ten web design mistakes of 2005
  1. new flash popularity wave (in 2000, dr. j.nielsen Article flash technology gradually lost its popularity, but the new version (mx, MX2004A and, in particular, flash macromedia 8 helped the company to repay the lost positions);
  2. Web 2.0 embryos;
  3. Ajax (JavaScript + XML) technologies Breakdown;

Summary of all the “Top”

 2007, dr. Jakob Nielsen has updated summary of errors:

  1. Poor the Search;
  2. pdf files for online reading;
  3. visited links, which does not change color;
  4. the content is written at the web site;
  5. fixed-size fonts;
  6. incompatibility with the search engine;
  7. everything looks like a banner;
  8. Failure to comply with design standards;
  9. Opening new browser windows;
  10. site is not responding to consumer issues

more: the top ten web design mistakes

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