Unless you have a designing, photography or fashion website, don’t try to impress your visitors with splash pages, heavy graphics or fancy fonts. Use graphics and flash to complement your content and to provide additional functionality, not to grab visitors attention. The designs may look cool to you but visitors definitely won’t be that impressed unless there is something in it for them. They will be bored and will leave your website prematurely without doing what you expected them to do on the site.

Online visitors are always in a hurry and looking for “doing something” or “going somewhere”. You must, therefore, respect their time and provide them the right content at right places instead of wasting efforts on short gimmicks. Web is full of that stuff and visitors have learned to ignore that. I hope, you do not want your visitors to ignore your websites.