7 Usability Issues & Fixes for your web page designs

• You may have the zeal to learn and blend your knowledge with creativity to design your website on your own, but that may or may not be the right decision.

• With the portfolio designing or creating your website, it may be a huge deal, but for a business, a site means a lot.

• Unlike professional web designers, you may not be very particular about the minute details. Usability is crucial for web design services. You aim to please each of your visitors in a way that they stick to your site for a longer time.

• Here, we will be talking about some of the most common mistakes that happen to occur more often.

Unclickable click sections:

• When you are using the ready to implement themes for your website, this is one of the most common usability issues. The CTA buttons and clickable sections are added on the website to click and let your customers interact. But, if they aren’t working well, the opposite happens. These small click buttons turn out to be the primary reason behind users leaving your website. Since people are visiting your website across different devices, the size of the clickable button may not be easy to click.

• An idea to fix: You can check the responsiveness of the theme. Further, with CSS “padding” property, you can increase the size of the clickable area or option. You can copy this code in your CSS file and apply it for different classes and id.

•  <a href=”http://www.examplesite.com” style=”padding: 5px;”>Example Site<a>

Pointless use of pagination:

• The concept of pagination is to split the content of a single web page to numerous pages. It is introduced with the notion to shorten the page length upto certain extent. Since lengthy pages will have more content and media elements, it can reduce the loading speed of the website. Mostly, pagination is applied for blog pages on the site.

• Though it is a usability feature, people on the web are using it in a not-so justified way. Since long-form content is in trend, companies are creating more lengthy content, just like creating an e-book. To drive more benefits from the perspective of SEO, these sites are then set to split in several distinct blogs. In such a case, if a reader is interested in reading, the page views increases, else you will find some of the customers who won’t be able to navigate to the right blog. This pattern introduces time to break the user attention and can negatively impact the ranking of the website.

• An idea to fix: If you are using any such tactic to improve the count of blogs or for whatever reasons, we recommend you not to follow this idea of pagination on your website.

Duplicate page titles:

• We aren’t talking about the title of your but that of your website pages. In the development phase, we often keep deleting and adding new pages, making changes and update. But, if you are making your website live; you must be cautious about it. The title of the web page is displayed in the title bar at the head of your website. The title of your web page tells the usability of your websites to the search engines like Google, Yahoo, and others.

• Also, it plays a crucial role in the viewpoint of SEO. The page title builds the credibility of your website and the efforts you make to improve the experience of search engines as well as your users. Optimized results and known to answer queries of the users at the earliest. By default, the page title includes the name of your site and primary title of the web page of displayed content. But, you can edit and update while managing the SEO of your site.

• Now, either you remember to audit your site and update all the SEO and general settings of your site, or better keep track of these things right from the first phase of website designing. 

Misaligned content copy:

Since you have the basic layout of web page design ready for you, you must concentrate on improving your content copy. You have probably heard a lot that ‘content is the king’ and it’s reasonably true. You can hire the professional writers to create more personalized sales copy for your website, but your work isn’t done yet.

 As a web designer, you need to set the content on your website and update its typography, such that it can grab the attention of the user. That’s a common expectation that a user will visit a page; they will look into it completely. However, it doesn’t happen. Read more..