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    1. Animated gifs. You know the ones: the dancing baby, the rotating email sign. No matter what you chose, nothing screams out “amateur” quite like an animated gif. Next!

    2. Mouse trails. Those little pictures, or strings of letters that “follow” your mouse everywhere it goes. In my case, they follow my mouse all the way to the “back” button, so I can surf on to somewhere less annoying.

    3. Music. If I wanted to listen to music, I’d play some myself. Meanwhile, I’m reaching for that back button again…

    4. Indecipherable colour schemes. Navy blue text on a black background. White on yellow. Ye Gods! It hurts my eyes just to look at it, never mind read it. Just say no.

    5. Poor spelling and grammar. Specifically: text speak. It’s bad enough on your mobile phone, never mind your website. If

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    2. Mouse trails. Those little pictures, or strings of letters that “follow” your mouse everywhere it goes. In my case, they follow my mouse all the way to the “back” button, so I can surf on to somewhere less annoying.

    3. Music. If I wanted to listen to music, I’d play some myself. Meanwhile, I’m reaching for that back button again…

    4. Indecipherable colour schemes. Navy blue text on a black background. White on yellow. Ye Gods! It hurts my eyes just to look at it, never mind read it. Just say no.

    5. Poor spelling and grammar. Specifically: text speak. It’s bad enough on your mobile phone, never mind your website. If

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    3. Music. If I wanted to listen to music, I’d play some myself. Meanwhile, I’m reaching for that back button again…

    4. Indecipherable colour schemes. Navy blue text on a black background. White on yellow. Ye Gods! It hurts my eyes just to look at it, never mind read it. Just say no.

    5. Poor spelling and grammar. Specifically: text speak. It’s bad enough on your mobile phone, never mind your website. If

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    4. Indecipherable colour schemes. Navy blue text on a black background. White on yellow. Ye Gods! It hurts my eyes just to look at it, never mind read it. Just say no.

    5. Poor spelling and grammar. Specifically: text speak. It’s bad enough on your mobile phone, never mind your website. If

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    es just to look at it, never mind read it. Just say no.

    5. Poor spelling and grammar. Specifically: text speak. It’s bad enough on your mobile phone, never mind your website. If you’re going to go to the trouble of setting up a website, at least make sure people can read it without cringing. Or it’ll be that “back” button for you…

    So, that’s how to get it wrong, but how do you get it right?

    There’s no great mystery to great website design. Simplicity is the key; while there are a few people out there who go crazy for the piped music and the animations, there are probably a thousand more who’re just driven crazy by them. A clean, simple website isn’t going to offend anyone – or prevent people from actually viewing the content of your site.

    Remember that unless you’re a website designer yourself, it’s the content that really matters. Visitors don’t come to your website to admire the

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