Sometimes the client is wrong. And here is my top five list of things on which the client is wrong (most of the time).

5. Animated Gifs

Never, ever, ever use animated gifs. Ever! They are outdated, ugly, and tend to annoy your visitors

4. Music on page load

I often browse websites late at night with other people around me trying to sleep. I often forget to turn my speakers off.  Music on page load = awake, annoyed people.

3. Stereotypical images

Believe it or not, every business does not need a stock photo of a puzzle with a piece missing on their website and for that matters neither do they need a picture of businessmen shaking hands.

2. Cursive Fonts

I hate cursive fonts. Most of the US population hates cursive fonts as well, even if they don’t know it. I hate them for this one reason if no others:

They are hard to read.

1.     No White Space

One of the essential parts of website design is white space, leave it out and your site feels cluttered and bulky.  You do not need to fill up every pixel of space.

Thank you for reading my rant (so to speak), I hope that you are not offended and that you learned something from this article. Even if it was just how cranky web designers can be.