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Just Other Articles - Top 10 Biggest Web Design Mistakes
In the world of web design, there are plenty of mistakes you can make, and in this article, I'm going to look at what I believe to be the top 10 biggest. You need to check your site for these mis
According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product
takes right now, and fix them if they're there – otherwise you're going to be annoying your visitors and driving them away from your site.
1. Unclear Layout and Navigation. Many websites, especi
1. Unclear Layout and Navigation. Many websites, especi
; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.
Examples of combination products may in
Examples of combination products may in
ally business sites, seem to suffer from some kind of disease where even the very simplest task takes ten steps to achieve. If people are emailing you to ask you how to do things on your site, th
lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.
en you need to improve your layout and navigation. Remember: if there are certain tasks people seem to want to do more often, put them on the front page.
2. Plugin Overload. You've got to keep m
2. Plugin Overload. You've got to keep m
here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe
edia that uses plugins to a strict maximum of one per page: that means that if you've got Flash, then you can't have a media player, or if you're using Java then you can't have Flash. It's not as
d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.
Combination pro
Combination pro
bad to use the same plugin twice, however.
3. Unclear Linking. You might think it looks better to only show links when people put their mouse over them, or not make their colour stand out too m
3. Unclear Linking. You might think it looks better to only show links when people put their mouse over them, or not make their colour stand out too m
ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc
uch from the rest of the text, but it's not – while it might make the design look nicer, it makes it far less usable. Use a clearly contrasting colour for links, and preferably underline them.
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easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi
. Too Many Ads. When you're trying to make money from your website, it's all too easy to try to fit in more ads than you really should, or start using ad formats that are too intrusive. If you've
nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
put a new ad on your site, go to the site as if you were a visitor, and ask yourself honestly: is this just too much?
5. Strange Fonts. Stick to the most common web fonts: that's pretty much ju
5. Strange Fonts. Stick to the most common web fonts: that's pretty much ju
and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ
st Arial, Georgia, Tahoma and Verdana. If you're using more obscure fonts, then most visitors probably won't have them – and the ones that do will find your text hard to read. The only time you s
ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
hould use non-standard fonts is in your logo or in headings, if they are displayed as an image.
6. Flash Intros. Please, don't use a Flash intro on your website. You'd think everyone would reali
6. Flash Intros. Please, don't use a Flash intro on your website. You'd think everyone would reali
ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.
Following aspects would a
Following aspects would a
se they're a bad idea by now, but every web designer still gets clients who just don't seem to realise that Flash intros are universally mocked and hated. Don't be one of those people.
7. Unlabe
7. Unlabe
dd to the challenges in developing combination products:
Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
lled Email Links. It's a very bad idea to ever use a link that will send email (a mailto link) without clearly marking it with the word 'email'. If you just make clicking people's names send emai
cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
l, you'll annoy visitors who just clicked wanting to find out more about the person.
8. Broken Links. You've got to check all your links regularly to make sure that they all still work. There's
8. Broken Links. You've got to check all your links regularly to make sure that they all still work. There's
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
nothing worse than finding a site that looks useful, only to find that it hasn't been updated in years and none of the links work any more. Yes, a website does mostly run itself after a while, bu
t?
As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel
As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel
t that doesn't mean that you should neglect the essential maintenance it needs from time to time.
9. No Marking for External Links. There are two kinds of links: internal (to other parts of your
9. No Marking for External Links. There are two kinds of links: internal (to other parts of your
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.
Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
website) and external (to other websites). For the benefit of your visitors, though, it's best if you mark external links, either by making them a different colour or using some kind of a symbol
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
(a box with an arrow is the usual one). It's also good to make the external links open in new windows, so people aren't leaving your site altogether when they click them.
10. Badly-sized Text.
10. Badly-sized Text.
.
As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de
As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de
It's important to keep your text around the standard size (preferably just below). Making text too big or too small makes it hard to read and annoying for many visitors. The best thing you can do
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.
Companies that provide selfless information through particip
Companies that provide selfless information through particip
is use relative text sizing (not pixels) that allows the browser to respect the user's preferred text size. You might also consider offering buttons on your site to decrease or increase the size
tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products
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