To error is human, but to not to learn from your mistakes can, at times, cost you more than what you can afford. In my ten years of offering web designing, web development and web maintenance services, I have come across many designing gaffes that can be avoided by being a bit more careful. However, I would like to mention a few web designing and web development blunders that fit to be discussed in this article.
Domain Misspell
One of the dumbest mistakes one can ever do is to misspell domain name while going for its registration. It may so happen that you might be doing the domain registration on behalf of your customers, and if you are communicating mostly over voice, you are prone to hearing things wrongly which can jeopardize their prospects. For instance, if you register CarTuneNetwork.com instead of CartoonNetwork.com, you have probably had it from your clients. Make sure you hear thing correctly if you rely mostly on the voice chat with your customers.
Expiry of Domain Names
This is another mistake you would always hate to commit. Imagine your domain name expires after a certain period of time because you probably have forgotten to pay the registrar on time to renew your domain. This could be quite embarrassing if you have already made a name for your website.
Flashing Your Cyber Undergarments
Some website management platforms offered by hosting companies store the site statistics in common folders named as /statistics/. Unless you password protect this folder, your visitors will be able to see the most confidential statistics of your site. In the process, you might end up showing the full traffic data to your visitors. Do not be surprised if you find some of your visitors informing you that they are pretty impressed with the last month traffic flow.
Displaying Sensitive Company Information
Often the web designers are not aware of the real portion of the webpage copy and can make potential errors of publishing the entire content on the webpage copy provided by you even if there is some private information that is meant just to assist the web designer in doing his work efficiently. It can happen to any organization irrespective of their size and stature. For instance, in 2006, AOL had published a search data report that contained private details of thousands of AOL customers. Though the information was taken off the site a few days later, it led to the sacking of AOL's chief technical officer.
404 Errors Page
The worst web design error you can ever commit is to design custom 404 Error Page for your visitors without being apologetic to them or leaving any clue for them to help them go to the page they want to see. This might seriously put them off and make them click them on the back button.
Site Closed For Maintenance
If you take your site off for maintenance even temporarily, you could lose your ranking that you have earned so painstakingly. Search engines do not understand the sign "back in fifteen minutes". If the search engine bots index your site when it is down for maintenance they will take if for granted that that pages they had indexed earlier no longer exist. As a result, they will drop your pages from their search index which means you will have to wait till they re-index your site. The simplest solution to this problem is to put up a mirror site during the maintenance period.
About the author:
Maneet Puri heads LeXolution IT Services (LIT), a renowned web and KPO solution provider in India.
Domain Misspell
One of the dumbest mistakes one can ever do is to misspell domain name while going for its registration. It may so happen that you might be doing the domain registration on behalf of your customers, and if you are communicating mostly over voice, you are prone to hearing things wrongly which can jeopardize their prospects. For instance, if you register CarTuneNetwork.com instead of CartoonNetwork.com, you have probably had it from your clients. Make sure you hear thing correctly if you rely mostly on the voice chat with your customers.
Expiry of Domain Names
This is another mistake you would always hate to commit. Imagine your domain name expires after a certain period of time because you probably have forgotten to pay the registrar on time to renew your domain. This could be quite embarrassing if you have already made a name for your website.
Flashing Your Cyber Undergarments
Some website management platforms offered by hosting companies store the site statistics in common folders named as /statistics/. Unless you password protect this folder, your visitors will be able to see the most confidential statistics of your site. In the process, you might end up showing the full traffic data to your visitors. Do not be surprised if you find some of your visitors informing you that they are pretty impressed with the last month traffic flow.
Displaying Sensitive Company Information
Often the web designers are not aware of the real portion of the webpage copy and can make potential errors of publishing the entire content on the webpage copy provided by you even if there is some private information that is meant just to assist the web designer in doing his work efficiently. It can happen to any organization irrespective of their size and stature. For instance, in 2006, AOL had published a search data report that contained private details of thousands of AOL customers. Though the information was taken off the site a few days later, it led to the sacking of AOL's chief technical officer.
404 Errors Page
The worst web design error you can ever commit is to design custom 404 Error Page for your visitors without being apologetic to them or leaving any clue for them to help them go to the page they want to see. This might seriously put them off and make them click them on the back button.
Site Closed For Maintenance
If you take your site off for maintenance even temporarily, you could lose your ranking that you have earned so painstakingly. Search engines do not understand the sign "back in fifteen minutes". If the search engine bots index your site when it is down for maintenance they will take if for granted that that pages they had indexed earlier no longer exist. As a result, they will drop your pages from their search index which means you will have to wait till they re-index your site. The simplest solution to this problem is to put up a mirror site during the maintenance period.
About the author:
Maneet Puri heads LeXolution IT Services (LIT), a renowned web and KPO solution provider in India.
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