Instead of trying to constantly impress users with snazzy graphics and smooth flash movies lets go back to the basics and think about the what they like and what they hate. You may think your site is usable, good-looking, easily navigable and fast… but do your users agree?

So, here are seven things you can do to make sure your users stay for more than five seconds:

In my opinion the most misunderstood HTML element is probably the DIV. It’s perfectly okay to use it; I’ve never created a website without using it at least once, but some people use it incorrectly. I’m normally not annoyed about this at all but it recently got to the point when I thought, "hmmm, maybe I should write a blog post about the DIV to show people how sad and frustrated I am about it’s misuse…"