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Editor to share with you what serious mistakes Web developers are prone to make, I believe most people do not know much about it, so share this article for your reference. I hope you will learn a lot after reading this article. Let's learn about it.

1. "reinvent the wheel"

We understand that you want to build your website into a website that is different from your competitors.

But you don't have to reinvent the wheel.

Apple didn't design the iPhone from scratch. It is a beautiful smartphone made up of different microprocessors, lithium batteries, firmware, capacitive screens and all packages. Even its patented operating system iOS is designed to mimic the UNIX operating system.

So don't be ashamed of imitating other people's websites. Their websites may also imitate other people's websites. It is human nature and the main way to promote the development of human society to create based on the existing, collective and the wisdom of others.

You don't have to ask yourself to design a website that is brilliant all over the world. You only need to be slightly better than other sites in look and feel.

How to avoid this mistake?

Find the website that you and your customers like, learn about the style of the site, and experience what you appreciate. Then type the keywords related to your business in Google and click on the first few results in the search list.

Visit similarweb.com to see which other sites are in your vision.

At the same time, you can also use sites such as iSpionage.com to quickly learn what your competitors have.

You think you know exactly who your direct competitor is. In fact, when your target users search for sites based on search terms in Google, they are your real competitors. Competitors that use Google Adwords are strongly attracting and getting the attention of your target users.

two。 I don't know what you want visitors to do.

What do you want visitors to do when they visit your website?

Think about it for a moment...

In fact, only a small number of visitors will do what you want. In the Internet world, it's good to get a conversion rate of 2-5%. Come to think of it, only 2 out of 100 visitors. Don't let this number go any lower!

You need to define clear goals for your visitors.

If you are involved in the service industry and want visitors to call you, put your phone number at the top of the navigation.

If it's the e-commerce industry: you may want visitors to remember your best-selling products, or the most amazing sales.

Once you know what you want users to do, you can design each individual page and the navigation structure of the site to try to achieve that goal.

Design a unified style theme for all web pages and enhance the user experience of visitors on the site.

3. Think of yourself as a Web designer

Especially for developers who will use Photoshop.

Using Photoshop to make your "design" more beautiful will waste a lot of time. There are many hidden factors that may take you a lot of time, such as color combinations, font styles, font size, alignment, white space, etc., which is easy for professional Web designers.

How to avoid it?

A better way is to hire a graphic designer. You can hold a Web design competition on sites like 99designs.com to find your favorite designers.

4. What you understand, you think Web designers must also understand.

This is the other extreme of the problem. You may want to outsource all your work. But outsourced designers may not know your business and your customers as well as you do. You know and understand all the needs, but do outsourced designers know the final visual product you need?

How to avoid it?

You can use the Balsamiq or Mockingbird tools to create some wireframes. This allows you to focus on the visitor's experience and helps you organize and structure your content.

It also provides a reference framework for your Web designers to understand what's on your mind. It can speed up the construction process of the website.

5. Build a website based on customized platform

Unless you are building Web applications or SaaS corporate websites, * uses a common framework.

If you need to constantly update the content of your enterprise, you can use CMS, such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.

If you want to sell something online, you need a shopping cart platform, probably using platforms like bigcommerce.com, shopify.com, and Yahoo Store.

The main reason for the use of widely used platforms is that such platforms have good maintainability. You don't want only a few people in the world to update and upgrade your website.

Moving from one platform to another is also painful, so choose your platform wisely.

If your website is handed over to agents to build, be sure to ask them to use a well-known platform, do not use the agent's "patent" platform.

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