Web Designers Commandment

There are actually more than ten commandments to good web design but I only want to speak about one of it. This commandment is dubbed;

Thou shall NOT kill thy website with ads.

I wonder who’s doing this right now?

I’ve noticed a lot of local bloggers hopping onto the bandwagon of Adsense to help them gain revenue. Especially after many have heard the joy of some receiving their first cheque from Google. Hurrah! for them of course. However, many who want to earn the revenue fast not only have managed to hide the ads successfully, they’ve gone over their head by placing ads all over their website.

Have people forgotten what it was like to be irritated by the many ads when visiting one of our more favourable websites? Have people forgotten what it felt to have ads always sticking out at you when you’re reading an article? Have you ever believed there’s a limitation of the number of ads on your website?

No? Well, I guess you just don’t respect the visitors who visit your website because they enjoy reading your content and not all the other worthless content. Ads are not bad, but not being able to control the extensive number of them makes them bad. Or should I say, it makes the author bad.

It’s common sense that the ads shouldn’t be the limelight of your website. It should be the decorative yet revenue gaining element in the website. So I’m advising those starting a blog or those who can still control themselves, YOUR content is king and not others. You are the reason people enjoy your website. Don’t take away their joy by putting an ad on every corner possible.

Cheers.

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