What Makes You Lot Larn Out An Artist's Website? Poll Results
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Does your fine art website brand me people wishing to leave of absence fast? The Making H5N1 Mark Opinion Poll for Jan 2012 aimed to honour out what were the aspects which generated an adverse commencement impression of an artist's website.
The results are inwards as well as you lot tin at nowadays self-assess your ain website as well as create upward one's hear whether or non you lot are driving people away!
This poll allowed people to tick all that drove them dotty. What's interesting is that virtually all the factors which are an number were identified equally options as well as entirely 9% highlighted nevertheless to a greater extent than irritants.
Your Top Three Pet Hates
Two thirds of visitors volition leave of absence your website immediately if they meet whatever ONE of the transcend iii pet hates.
The iii things you lot loathe the most as well as which are most probable to brand you lot leave of absence a website are
Automatic music e'er makes me think of lifts (elevators) - demand I say more?
The images loading tardily is a certainly sign of somebody who doesn't sympathise that you lot demand to resize images for the cyberspace AND alter their resolution. There is absolutely no dot inwards using to a greater extent than than 72dpi. You absolutely do non demand an epitome to hold upward whatever bigger than the maximum size you lot wishing to display it at. It's rattling piece of cake to create web-ready images - if you lot know how! This is a huge weblog - but virtually every epitome has a resolution of 72dpi (or less if it's OK) as well as has no side longer than 500 pixels. My guideline "rule of thumb" is if it's bigger than 100kb than, to a greater extent than oft than non speaking, it doesn't larn on my blog. I tend to operate the same kind of measure on my website Pastels as well as Pencils.
It tin hold upward rattling irritating for people to honour a site entirely to realise they can't thought whatever of it - but as well as thence people are entitled to brand their websites private. However, these are non typically the sorts of sites you lot demand to register to regard - these are the kind you lot demand an invite to see! :)
Registration to thought parts of a website tin hold upward OK inwards certainly circumstances - but entirely subsequently you've shown as well as told people plenty to brand them think it mightiness hold upward worth their while. Otherwise I'm afraid it entirely demonstrates that you lot sympathise rattling fiddling close marketing.
The Rest of the Top Ten Turnoffs
The adjacent vii irritants are equally follows. The numbers subsequently each constituent are the percent of visitors you lot tin await to lose if only ONE of these is example of what people honour on your website.
Around a quarter to a tertiary of all respondents listed these equally pushing them out the door fast!
Here are some of the comments which the master copy post attracted. They brand fifty-fifty to a greater extent than suggestions close factors which prompt a fast retreat! Many thank you lot to all the people who took the fourth dimension as well as problem to comment
The results are inwards as well as you lot tin at nowadays self-assess your ain website as well as create upward one's hear whether or non you lot are driving people away!
This poll allowed people to tick all that drove them dotty. What's interesting is that virtually all the factors which are an number were identified equally options as well as entirely 9% highlighted nevertheless to a greater extent than irritants.
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| Making H5N1 Mark Poll - Jan 2012 number of responses = 239 |
Your Top Three Pet Hates
Two thirds of visitors volition leave of absence your website immediately if they meet whatever ONE of the transcend iii pet hates.
The iii things you lot loathe the most as well as which are most probable to brand you lot leave of absence a website are
- registration is required inwards venture to regard to a greater extent than (67%)
- automatic music (66%)
- images charge rattling tardily (62%)
Automatic music e'er makes me think of lifts (elevators) - demand I say more?
The images loading tardily is a certainly sign of somebody who doesn't sympathise that you lot demand to resize images for the cyberspace AND alter their resolution. There is absolutely no dot inwards using to a greater extent than than 72dpi. You absolutely do non demand an epitome to hold upward whatever bigger than the maximum size you lot wishing to display it at. It's rattling piece of cake to create web-ready images - if you lot know how! This is a huge weblog - but virtually every epitome has a resolution of 72dpi (or less if it's OK) as well as has no side longer than 500 pixels. My guideline "rule of thumb" is if it's bigger than 100kb than, to a greater extent than oft than non speaking, it doesn't larn on my blog. I tend to operate the same kind of measure on my website Pastels as well as Pencils.
It tin hold upward rattling irritating for people to honour a site entirely to realise they can't thought whatever of it - but as well as thence people are entitled to brand their websites private. However, these are non typically the sorts of sites you lot demand to register to regard - these are the kind you lot demand an invite to see! :)
Registration to thought parts of a website tin hold upward OK inwards certainly circumstances - but entirely subsequently you've shown as well as told people plenty to brand them think it mightiness hold upward worth their while. Otherwise I'm afraid it entirely demonstrates that you lot sympathise rattling fiddling close marketing.
The Rest of the Top Ten Turnoffs
The adjacent vii irritants are equally follows. The numbers subsequently each constituent are the percent of visitors you lot tin await to lose if only ONE of these is example of what people honour on your website.
- bad navigation (55%) I human face at lots of websites. You wouldn't believe the number that haven't got their basic navigation railroad train properly as well as I'm non inwards the to the lowest degree flake surprised that this constituent comes thence high.. My friend Louise e'er talks close whether or non your website delivers on "the Trunk Test". This comes from Steve Krug (Advanced Common Sense) as well as his mass Don't Make Me Think which is close spider web usability. I won't explicate the mafia connotations (other than to bespeak that for English linguistic communication readers you lot should hold upward thinking of a boot of a car) but volition attempt as well as explicate the body examination inwards a few sentences. Try the do alongside your ain website - it's an eye-opener! OK - thence imagine you lot brand it at a website. You didn't come upward through the front end door as well as larn the gracious 'Hello' - instead you lot got dumped inwards the middle of nowhere - somewhere inwards 'a website'. Now, using entirely the data on that webpage, are you lot able to:
- tell what the website is about?
- identify the primary sections of the website?
- understand where you lot are as well as how to motility around the website?
- find your agency dorsum to the habitation page?
- OR are you lot stranded inwards the middle of "who knows where"?
- intrusive / irrelevant adverts (50%) We don't oft regard adverts on fine art websites - which is why they tend to stand upward out when they are seen. Adverts inwards relevant parts of the site (eg links to suppliers re favourite fine art materials - on the page where you verbalize close what fine art materials you lot use) are to a greater extent than oft than non not idea of equally a "bad thing". However people who charge their websites alongside irrelevant adverts of Google text ads because they wishing to brand coin laissez passer on off all the incorrect signals close what they think is important. Think rattling difficult close the nature, type as well as location of an refer earlier you lot include one.
- auto-streaming videos (47%) We are thence over beingness impressed yesteryear what Flash tin do - particularly since it's such a broadband squealer as well as these videos accept an historic menstruum to load. Videos which auto-steam whatever are a strict "no no" - or spotter nearly one-half of your visitors struggle their agency to the exit!
- tiny paintings (44) Images are what an creative mortal is all close - thence why do some artists brand them soooooooo tiny? In fact - serious enquiry - if you're going to brand them thence tiny that nobody tin appreciate them why do you lot bother having a website inwards the commencement place? If you're worried close copyright thieves only trim back the resolution. Images do non receive got to hold upward huge but they rattling definitely do nil for the creative mortal if they are tiny.
- it crashed my estimator (38%) Need I say more? Do it i time I forgive you. Do it twice as well as you lot won't regard me i time again ever! (Same goes for sites which generate virus alerts)
- content badly organised (36%) I know that 'organisation' as well as 'artist' are 2 words which rattling oft do non go together. If that's you lot larn a friend to review your website for you lot as well as tell you lot what does non work. I absolutely adore identifying what needs sorting out as well as and thence revamping the pattern as well as content of websites - I'd almost pay people to do it but fortunately they wishing to pay me! (You tin e'er attempt asking!)
- old as well as out of engagement dates (35%) Question: How do you lot tell if an creative mortal has lost involvement inwards a website or lost involvement inwards showing / selling their work? Answer: Just human face at the dates.
Around a quarter to a tertiary of all respondents listed these equally pushing them out the door fast!
- dull as well as ho-hum (34%) - We all know these when nosotros regard them as well as most of us are backing out the door earlier nosotros fifty-fifty larn in. Try looking at your statistics for pages subsequently your habitation page. If they're rattling depression as well as thence chances are your habitation page switches people off.
- illegible text (31%) - my pet loathe is very pale text on a white background as well as tiny font sizes alongside insufficient contrast. If you lot brand me accomplish for the zoom clitoris you'll honour I striking the "back" clitoris first!
- 101 (too many!) typefaces (26%) -
- stuff jumps out at me (26%) - It's only non rattling polite at nowadays is it? People do non similar popular ups.
- too many typos (25%) - Sometimes the things which print are the things which are absent - similar spelling mistakes as well as typos. We all know that rattling creative artists are to a greater extent than probable to receive got dyslexia - acre some receive got only never been rattling skillful at spelling. However most volition receive got relatives or friends who could proof read their website. Or they tin utilisation a website which has a built-in spell check! It only requires a fiddling flake of extra endeavor as well as actually improves the overall impression.
- garish colours (25%) - I was a fiddling flake surprised that this i didn't come upward higher given the number of artists websites which actually wound my eyes. However I'm possibly a fiddling hypersensitive to color as well as utilisation of color on websites. I'm also in all likelihood remembering artists websites equally they used to hold upward - most are getting a lot improve on this aspect.
Here are some of the comments which the master copy post attracted. They brand fifty-fifty to a greater extent than suggestions close factors which prompt a fast retreat! Many thank you lot to all the people who took the fourth dimension as well as problem to comment
- Karla said...
I didn't regard my commencement 2 on the list. Vulgarity or political statements.
- Sophie said...
The primary thing that makes me leave of absence is oft an outdate, onetime fashioned spider web design. One of those sites that is patently designed 10 years ago, using only html as well as alongside fiddling creativity. H5N1 few tables as well as columns..etc. Finding what industrial plant is only a affair of looking around as well as seeing what you lot like. No-no’s: coloured font on dark background, intro’s, flashing images or fonts...well these are only obvious aren’t they?
- David J Teter said...
Add to the list:
- resizes my browser window
- hover pointer selection entirely ( hover pointer over thumbnail to regard image, motility pointer off, epitome disappears)
- Too many clicks to larn to large image
- Too many dorsum clicks to larn dorsum out
- Centered type (too difficult to read! Centered type is meant for ephemeral cloth similar announcements, it's graphic pattern 101, inquire whatever designer)
- Too much content unrelated to fine art (a fiddling human involvement is ok, but don't brand me wade through tons of it, I'm at that spot for the art)
- NO DATES AT ALL!, anywhere! How onetime is this!? (not equally much an number alongside blogs, which is utilisation of template)
- Although I won't necessarily leave, I'm normally a flake annoyed when at that spot is NO technical information on the fine art anywhere. No medium, size, year, sometimes fifty-fifty no crediting the creative mortal on sites that characteristic fine art inwards general.
- janabouc said...
Brilliant!!! I've never seen a poll bespeak these questions. I receive got a duad to a greater extent than to add together that brand me leave of absence as well as larn elsewhere:
1) dark background alongside pocket-size white text (or fifty-fifty worse, cherry or orangish or lime light-green background...or worse than that, patterned background alongside vivid colors).
2) Artist Facebook pages that require you lot to "like" the page earlier you lot tin read it. How do I know if I similar it? I do know I don't similar beingness manipulated to larn you lot to a greater extent than likes!
3) Too busy weblog pages alongside stuff splattered all over inwards the novel "magazine" mode that has multiple columns alongside pocket-size chunks of posts as well as pictures as well as sidebar stuff scattered all about. If it takes also long to figure out what I'm supposed to do I leave.
- Stacy said...
One of my biggest pet peeves for a website is the auto music or video that can't hold upward TURNED OFF! Bad plenty it kicks on equally before long equally the page loads, but if I receive got to plow off my speakers to escape it, I'm gone. I also don't similar the flash or video you lot receive got to sit down through EVERY fourth dimension to larn inwards a site. That pretty much eliminates the wishing for repeat visits.
- tess stieben said...
I similar to larn inwards as well as thought fine art without having to continually click on tiny thumbnails to enlarge as well as thence click to closed as well as thence select adjacent epitome as well as repeat process. I volition thought a duad as well as thence larn out site.
Sites that utilisation pop-ups that when you lot click on an epitome to enlarge tell you lot "image is copyright downloading forbidden" etc, lose me on the spot. I believe inwards stating copyright, only non inwards that way, it seems vulgar as well as inwards your face.
I'm gaining preference for Art blogs where I tin scroll through images.
- Craftgirl said...
This is a peachy poll. My pet loathe is the fourth dimension a weblog or website takes forever to thought because of the pattern which is normally to a greater extent than arty than the fine art itself. Another i I loathe is when the pictures are far also pocket-size to regard thence I leave.
Over to you lot at nowadays - does whatever of this surprise you?
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