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We asked 12 entrepreneurs which website features small businesses should avoid (or get rid of) at all costs.
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Mike Power's comment,
March 9, 2014 3:29 PM
Agree with it all except the sidebars. It's not about whether there are sidebars or not, it's about how they areexecuted, just as it is for the rest of the page. And sidebars don't have to be narrow. And responsive designs have no problem placing the sidebar content below the main content. I love good single-column webpages but it's not the only game in town.
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Marty Notes:
1. Irrelevant Elements - Agree (every test I've ever run shows 20% of links on any page get 80% of clicks so lots of garbage and designing Mobile First on CrowdFunde (my first time) MAKES you toss the garbage.
2. Flash Intros - AGREE
3. Photo Carousel - I like photo carousels but use them sparringly.
4. Large Hero Images - Trend is other way and think this can be done well but agree risky.
5. Stock Photos - AGREE
6. Animated GIFs - AGREE (can't figure out VINE in this regard).
7. Autoplay Videos - AGREE
8. Automated Popups - YES & Popunders too (realize popunders get 1% of your traffic to sign up for email, but what about the 99%? If we want your email we will sign up otherwise stop popping stuff up at us.
9. 'Hello World' Blog Post - Agree but give newbies a break since this is WP default.
10. Sidebars - DISAGREE
Sidebar nav and feeds can be done well so I wouldn't toss the baby with the bathwater on this one.
11. Reloading Pages - Agree (don't know this well enough to comment really but sounds right).
12. M.dot Sites - Agree (same as #11