Link Every Page To The Home Page - One huge mistake that many webmasters make is to forget to link every page back to their home page. It's important to remember that search engines typically spider your entire site. This means that visitors can land literally anywhere in your site. If you are smart you will accept this fact and place a link back to home page.

Java or ActiveX Menus - I know those Java or ActiveX menus look great, but a large minority of your visitors will not allow these to operate due to security concerns. In my company I am in charge or security, and one of things that we do is turn off downloading of ActiveX controls from internet. Period. We are also very cautious about allowing unknown Java applets into our organization.

The point is stick to a simple, clean navigation interface. Personally, I would avoid Java and most especially ActiveX in anything intended for internet.

Confusing Menus - You want to make it difficult for your site to succeed? Then make your navigational system difficult to understand and use. Bury your hyperlinks in a complex image map that's not obvious to user. That's a great way to stop people from looking around your site. Some other things you can to do prevent users from enjoying your site:

Six or seven months later, internet company I worked for sent all of editors to a introductory HTML class at Salt Lake Community College. Like a lot of people, I was intimidated by HTML, which is why I started out with a WYSIWYG editor. Coding is definitely more time-consuming, but it's easier (because it's logical) and is much more precise. I remember wishing that I'd learned how to code before I'd started blindly messing around with PageMaker, not only because PageMaker had nearly given me a stress ulcer, but I'd wasted so much time feeling around in dark and feeling like an idiot. I had no idea this whole thing was really so easy.