• Unfriendly Screen Resolution: you need to make sure that your website has friendly and welcoming resolutions. Although, because of the modern techniques, you can opt for various latest web templates but you need to make sure that they are appropriate and suitable as well. Make sure that the website fits the screens properly. The most commonly used website layout is 1024 x 768 pixels.

Suggestion: you can check out the stats for your website, and then you should be designing the website in accordance to it.

• Registration Forms and Complications: Registration forms are always tricky. This is   how you can gather information from user which you require. Now, users do not need to enter too much of information while registering to any particular website. Some of the websites make the registration fields too difficult to validate and also mandatory that the user gets frustrated and annoyed after having few tries.

Suggestion: you can check out the different layouts that have been used with other websites, understand the information related to them, and then make a registration form according to your own requirements.

• Unscrupulous Use of Animations and Images: you should not be putting too much of images or animation into your web portal. Although, it can be a good technique to capture and grab the attention of users but is can be extremely distracting or aggravating. You should only be including images or animations where it is appropriate.

Suggestion: you should be making use of Flash application while you are considering integrating an animation into your website. This is because, it loads properly and instantly, and users do not have to wait for a longer period.

• More Whitespace and Cluttered Pages: numerous designers and developers simply forget about the importance of whitespace. And when they do not consider it as an important element, the result is an unreadable, cluttered, and a busy page.

Suggestion: you can opt for such designs and templates that are useful when it comes to embedding whitespace into your website.

• Do not add background music: you better not be embedding any sort of background music into your website, only if it is really an essential requirement.

Suggestions: if ever, you are integrating music into your website, then you need to make sure that you provide user with pause or stop buttons so that if they are not interested in it, they can handle it the way they want to.

• Test: you should be running the proto-types of your layout, so that you can get a better idea about how it looks like. Make sure that your website can be viewed in different environments with all of its elements.