Here at online we believe in helping and supporting our customers and being as transparent as possible when it comes to website design. We have compiled some website design pitfalls that you should ensure your website had not fallen down. If you have a current website and are not sure how it is performing check out our free website review.

Website pitfall No 1

Table-based layout, it’s easier, it takes longer to test and validate that it works on most browsers. But it’s invalid XHTML, and as a professional website, should be delivering standards-based layout and styles at the very least.

Website pitfall No 2

The <font> tag, this tag has been outmoded for several years now. Don’t let your web page designer use it. If they cannot use CSS for anything else, learn the font property.

Website pitfall No 3

Images resized in the browser. Images that are not optimized slow down the download of even best site .

Website pitfall No 4

Old HTML, HTML 4.0 has been around and supported by 99.9% of the browsers out there for years. The best Web sites are converting to XHTML, it’s hard, but it shows your web site designer knows what you’re doing.

Website pitfall No 5

Don’t assume your customers don’t know, here at online99 we like to help customers understand why we design their websites in the manner that we do. This in turn ensures the website helps to wow their customers. We have several quality assurance processes in place and a review tool to ensure our web pages are W3 Compliant.

To conclude there are numerous web designers our there, all are capable of producing a website of some description but not all spend the time and effort on research and development that online99 carry out, to ensure their website design delivers what the customer wants at a budget they can afford.