Lord knows it’s hard work creating an excellent user-interface for your website, and as a Web-Enabled Individual (WEI) you know if something requires hard work you must be doing it wrong. With this in mind pay heed to these great tips on how to make your company’s website irretrievably poor.
Step 1 – Toolbars are for tools
Nobody is going to think you’re cutting edge with all your links clearly laid out along the top of the homepage. why not scatter them randomly? Customers love the Easter-egg-hunt layout, it makes the link all the more gratifying when you do find it! And in case you’re wondering what to put in place of the toolbar, why not a big advert! Now i don’t want to name any names, but here’s a link to the BT homepage. BT.com
Step 2 – Flash is just as cool as it sounds
The best websites have loading times, but that’s not all flash gives you! Fusty traditionalists will tell you to “use Flash conservatively” but can you really argue with beautiful sliding menus, slightly animated video and zoom in features? Thanks to Flash buttons can now be smaller than ever, and right-clicking is rendered useless. Plus, it always helps to have to install software in order to view your website, keeps out the riffraff.
