A picture is worth a thousand words.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Adam Tedeschi | 5/02/2010

• Business people shaking hands, wearing headsets or using a laptop on the beach. Images are important, these kind of images only serve to let your customers know you have no imagination but you do have an iStockphoto account well stocked with credits. No one uses their laptop on the beach… you’d get sand in it!
• Puzzle pieces. Yes you may very well provide solutions, but you aren’t a 4 year old trying to reconstruct a 5 piece wooden Elmo.
• Spinning Globes. World maps certainly have their place and can visually place your company as being global, but lay off making your customers wait for an animated globes to download to your page – the pay off just isn’t there!
• Multi-cultural business team.  A group shot of business people, usually in a flying V formation, arms crossed, one white guy, a black guy, an asian woman, someone with glasses… trying to so hard to be politically correct almost does the complete opposite! Take a real shot of your staff instead of pretending.
• Sales graphs bursting off the page. Sales graphs don’t burst off pages, they show sales. If you can’t produce a graph big enough to show the results then use larger increments!

Sourced from various blogs.

tags: Web Design