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Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

Mike — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:13:34 -0000

Quote: The look and design is clean and very nice aside from the legibility issue, but it is also done in Flash so it can’t be enlarged within the browser.

I have to disagree with you on that. Browsers support the zoom in function that comes with the flash player component. Also, Firefox supports additional zoom by using the special keys Ctrl and + or Ctrl + mouse scroll.

But I can totally see your point, fonts should be a little bigger than that. After all we write content for our readers and we want them to have a good time on our site.

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

RohitK — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:11:33 -0000

Hi,
Strongly agree with u. I want to say that In this web 2.0 design is essential. Traffic will be good if ur design,Font,navigation etc are extra ordinary. I think template selling business is going to rock now..

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

RohitK — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:28:38 -0000

Hi,
Strongly agree with u. I want to say that In this web 2.0 design is essential. Traffic will be good if ur design,Font,navigation etc is extra ordinary. I think template selling business is going to rock now..

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

Patrick — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:28:33 -0000

Thanks Austin web design! It is always a bad experience, I agree!

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

Austin Web Design — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:03:54 -0000

Great points! These must be taken into account in every step of the process to be a top tier provider. I especially agree with "If a user is taken mysteriously to another page, that looks foreign from the original, this trust is broken and they will question the experience." I find myself doing this all the time. If the page I'm taken to looks sketchy I'm closing the window quick like.

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

Malcolm — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:16:08 -0000

Nice post Patrick
"High Quality Photography" is not only necessary "When you are selling and need to showcase products". I think you need to use quality photographs with correct meaning matching to your website all the times because it enhances the beauty of the website and at the same time expresses perfectly your offerings.

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

Kane — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:43:55 -0000

Excellent ides thanks everyone for sharing this nice info with us :)

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

Alan — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:32:27 -0000

I read somewhere that it's also a good idea to follow the format of a newspaper layout. It makes it more familiar to read, but is this true of all webpages, design systems?

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

Jan — Thu, 22 May 2008 08:51:36 -0000

I think you should also avoid the use of the unnecessary apostrophe in "Avoid Welcome Pages/Pop Upâ€™s" :-)

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

Patrick Winfield — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:52:10 -0000

Thank you everyone for commenting and sharing your thoughts and ideas. I appreciate all of your responses. ;)

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

RafaQuiM — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:49:16 -0000

Great post.

Although in general your references are good, the one related to color usage is really horrible.

Spoting that out I sould sugguest you to add one more tip to be avoided, a fith one:

Avoid!
Having Low Quality External Links

Thanks for this post anyway

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

David Milor — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:01:01 -0000

If you have content that starts automatically this can deter someone to leave

Erm - persuade them to leave perhaps? Is this another example of gibberish? ;)

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

Ben — Tue, 20 May 2008 08:03:45 -0000

Another mistake. In the third paragraph, "Typos and grammatical errors express a disregard for the user and effects the image...". `effects' ought to be `affects'. It was unfortunate to make a slip right there, or was it humour and I'm just slow today?

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

Liz — Tue, 20 May 2008 06:46:16 -0000

Very valuable and frank. Thanks for the post!

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

Sidereal — Tue, 20 May 2008 06:40:52 -0000

"Welcome Pages/Pop Upâ€™s" should be "Welcome Pages/Pop Ups", unless the Pop Up is possessing something :)

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

Liad — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:24:56 -0000

I would like to add avoid linking services and web directory submittal sites.I have just found out that my webmaster is considered bad neighborhood and is bring my pagerank down cause he has his link on all my pages.

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

loquacious — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:20:34 -0000

Another grammar correction: Put that apostrophe away! (In the image header for "Welcome Pages/Pop Up's")

Why do "pop ups" get the possesive apostrophe, but not "welcome pages", eh? Other than it being incorrect?

Also, as a graphic designer and a writer, those headers shouldn't be inter-capitalized like that. For the most posh polishing, grammer rules hold for headers in all layout domains, be it for print or web.

All caps for headers with an appropriate headline font are acceptable for style as are other stylistic methods such as all lowercase, but if you're going to point out the importance of text in earning trust you might as well go all the way. Un-needed inter-capitalization is just one of the things that'll drive someone like me crazy.

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

The Bloggers Times — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:14:36 -0000

Great post,

Thank you.
The Bloggers Times

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

Shreemani — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:39:26 -0000

Thanks Patrick, each one of the 7 points are good. Images between the points does enhance your article. I appreciate you sharing these to us. Have a great day.

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

AJ — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:46:22 -0000

Very good tips. Simple but a lot of common sense

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

Mitch — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:44:04 -0000

"...effects the image..." should be "...affects the image...".

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

Patrick Winfield — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:53:09 -0000

Thank you Alex I made the revisions. I appreciate the commenting and I will surely triple-check my writing next time ;)

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

Alex Parkinson — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:29:46 -0000

First off, this was a good, thoughtful post that I think provides solid guidelines for anyone doing web development. That being said, as John wrote, if you're going to recommend proper spelling and grammar, you better triple-check your own writing. Sorry for the nitpicking.

- "While your at it..." should be "you're".
- "...you will surely loose them in seconds" should be "lose".
- "...guide the viewer or users eye around" should be "guide the viewer's or user's eyes around".

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

Patrick Winfield — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:56:09 -0000

Thanks Michael, you are correct. I appreciate it, have a great day!

Re: 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid!

Michael Clark — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:50:58 -0000

Nice article. Check for misspellings. Section 2: "While your at it, keep it up to date." Your should be "you're," a contraction of you are.