Don t ask visitors to grade you on a curve because you haven t gotten yours right yet. Visible Hit Counters. These slow page downloading, are inaccurate and are generally considered a sign of an amateur site. Even worse, they don t provide enough detailed information to be useful. A decent Web host will provide detailed, accurate statistics that will give you a much better understanding of who is visiting your site and what they do when they visit.
Animated graphics tend to annoy visitors.
They make it hard to concentrate on the text of a page. Most of them contribute to a general air of tackiness. The worst offenders are patterned backgrounds or odd color schemes. Light colored text on a dark background is a way to try to look cool. It almost never works on a law firm site.