Top Website creation Myths

Myth 1: Web design is for Geeks
Geeks can create web pages but so can everyone else. Web hosting cloud-based solutions. Web-based wizards guide you through the building process, allowing you to select a template, edit a page, add content and publish your website directly to the web. Many web hosting companies offer you need to build and manage your site including a domain name and server storage.

Myth 2: Flash makes websites cool
It is true Flash can make your website look good, but use too much and your website will be slow and your users will lose patience and leave before your website even gets chance to be displayed; not so cool then.
You need to think of all your users as some may not have a high speed connection. An animation that loads quickly on your PC may take some time to load in a remote browsers.
These days most websites use some flash content so most users have downloaded the flash plug-in, but those who have not will have to wait while the plug-in downloads.
When using Flash content, beta-test it on a small audience and get their feedback before publishing your site.
It is a good idea also to offer your website users an opportunity to view a "non flash" version of your site

Myth 3: Lots of bright colors make a website look good
Too many colors will confuse your site users and make it tiring just to look at. At the end of the day your visitors are there to learn from your website. This means they will be doing a certain amount of reading. If you make reading your content difficult by using low contrast colors or placing text on unreadable backgrounds, your readers will give up and go elsewhere.
You should color-theme your site using just 2 to 3 colors max. Use dark text on light backgrounds. Remember to make sure your hyperlinks are the same color on every page and buttons for similar operations are the same color.

Myth 4: Titles
Give your users a clue as to what sort of content a web page contains. You need to add titles to every page on your site. These titles need to be relevant to both the page and your site. Each title should be unique and succinctly describe the content found on the web page. If you used a template to produce your web pages, the template may already have titles for the pages, but the titles will not necessarily be relevant and your site will be better if you put a little effort into changing them.

Myth 5: Images (size does matter)
Images are one of the fastest ways of changing the look of your web pages. You can use image HTMLs as text headline replacement, buttons, links or just eye candy, so images are good. However, if you don't optimise images for the web, the time they take download and display will drive your users away and this is bad! Internet images do not need to be high resolution or massive size. There are many software programs which will optimise your images automatically for you. Adobe's Imageready is a good example.

Myth 6: Lots of Images add interest to your site
It is important to remember that images can consume bandwidth. The more images your website has. the slower it will load. As a rule of thumb, a webpage that doesn't load within 10 seconds will lose most casual visitors. You should be aiming for a total webpage size around 30k - 50k including all pictures and the HTML code.
A quick tips is to include the "height" and "width" HTML attribute on all your images so your text will load first instead of waiting until the images load.