In honor of that holiday, we'll introduce you to the 7 scariest Web design techniques. Join us for thrills and chills as we cover appalling animation, terrifying text, creepy color combinations, and more. We've designed a simple Web page that incorporates all the Unlucky 7 techniques. It's so irritating that we set the animated GIF to only cycle 25 times. This technique is most commonly used by banner advertisements to catch and hold your attention.
Designers sometimes use it in a Web page's content section to draw attention to important text.
Often, the animation draws so much negative attention that visitors leave your site immediately and never see that important content. Some designers get so excited and bewildered by the variety of fonts and colors available that they have a hard time choosing the best ones. So they compromise and use them all. The end result often resembles a ransom note cut from several different magazines. Ransom note text takes forever to code by hand since each single letter has a different font and color.