More Tips to Great Website Design

By Peter Brittain

Very often you design a website with great fanfare, but are unable to make much impact on visitors. It is simply a designer's wasted effort. The reasons are many, and range from an amateurish design to an overloaded site. You may already be aware of the need of simple website layout using templates, key words and relevant content. Therefore, if you want to make an impact on visitors, it is imperative to keep a few more things in mind.

More tips to create a great website

Provide something of great value: The foremost is the need to have good quality content. Whatever you provide should be of high quality and relevant to your aim of designing the website. If you are marketing products and services, make sure that you come quickly to the point, and pitch your products to the customers as perfectly as a sales talk. Your website should influence them to buy your product. Like a TV program with too many commercials is a put off, so, avoid these pitfalls and ensure that you have a limited number of advertisements on your website. Website content that talks about you is more important to visitors than advertisements.

No sleazy elements: too much of animation and audio can be extremely distracting since it causes unnecessary disturbance to visitors while they read website content. Animated banners or advertisements are not more effective than static ones, and rolling text can be intimidating as visitors not be able to read it at their own pace.

Avoid pop ups: Pop-ups are an absolute no-no for websites since visitors see them as irrelevant advertisements. It does not serve much of a purpose to have such pop-ups.

Do not use image backgrounds: image backgrounds seem amateurish, and distracts visitors from website content. If you want to present yourself as professionals, design a website without such backgrounds and in sober colors. It makes it easy to read content put in a simple font type and size.

Easy organization and navigation: It is necessary that you organize content and links systematically in a manner easy to use and understand. Putting everything in a haphazard manner will put of visitors from exploring your site any further. If they are unable to find relevant stuff in the cluster that is your website, they will never visit it again. Provide links which make navigation through the website extremely simple. Similarly, if you keep the size of the web page up to two screenfuls it becomes easier for visitors to keep track of content and relate to it.

Avoid frames: frames make it difficult to bookmark your site which in turn means that visitors may not remember your website later. Sometimes it also shows up without the frames when search engines list your website.

Do not overload your website: flashy graphics make your web page eye catching but overloads it, and takes a lot of time to load on slower Internet connections. Also, compress the image files, which make it simpler and quicker to load on the visitor's browsers. Therefore, it is extremely necessary to ensure you do not bog down your website.

There are different things that you need to keep in mind when you design your website, but as you design and gain experience you will be able to understand what the visitors look out for in the website and design your page accordingly.