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This is a list of bad website design practices that I have compiled together. Many designers still seem to make these mistakes to this day.

1. Flash, Image or Enter Here Splash pages. For the most part most search engines won’t find anything to index on this page and will ignore it as they don’t have any or very minimal text. There is a time and place for flash, but it isn’t 1999 anymore when Splash and Flash Intro Pages were the main trend. Splash pages don’t serve any purpose to customers, they just want information. Most of the people who come to the website will probably not waste their time watching it and move straight onto the information.
2. Not testing to see that your website works in more than one browser. Test your website in multiple browsers not only e.g. Internet Explorer, test it in other browsers as well e.g. Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome, etc.
3. Don’t use scrolling DIV’s. That is what the browser scrollbar is there for. It also becomes annoying when you get 2 scrollbars, namely the DIV’s and the browsers and they start “fighting” with one another when you use the mouse scroll wheel.

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