Most of the time, especially in countries where the Internet is still seen as a luxury instead of a necessity, it is difficult to explain to web design customers how to make the design of a website attractive. Sometimes I get so irritated by those things we as designers hear. Here is an example of some conversations with a customer, mostly things customer ask.

• When someone enters my homepage, I want my logo to come from the left, and make a circular movement before it sits on its place. Then it needs to rotate.
• Can I have an envelope on my homepage that constantly opens and closes, and when someone clicks on it, it should send an email?
• Dude, it just needs to be 2 columns and a header. The menu to the left, and the content to the right. Why does it take a whole week to do this? This should not take more than an hour to do.
• You need to add a line of text that constantly scrolls from left to right across the screen
• I saw a cat running across the screen on a site once. I want that too (this one is most often used by people who don’t want to spend more then $200 on a website).

People want a lot of animation on their sites. Animation, like splash screens and all kind of movement, is very nice when someone visits your site for the first time. But after a couple of visits it gets irritating and boring. And that drives people away.

Keep your design simple. And you hire a web designer, because he knows what he is doing. So let them do their job of coming up with the design that’s great for your company and that keeps visitors coming to your site.