 |
Website WisdomBetter website ROI - HomeNeed a Website? Should I create a website Easy to create website Websites Built Cheap Design Time to Redesign Importance of good design Rules in website design Good design practices Design elements to avoid Key to better site design Why Hire A Designer Usability Usability of Your Website Key to better site navigation Website customization Reducing Load Time Flash based Sites SE Who is your audience Generate Free Traffic Search Engine Optimization SE friendly pages Importance of Sitemap Use Graphic Templates Avoid Template Mistakes More Visitors Keep Visitors Coming Tell Friend Script Easy Viral Marketing Paying For Your Traffic Yahoo Website Visitors Adwords Drive Traffic Money Monetize Your Traffic Building Your Mailing List Revenue With Planning Improve Website Sales Make It Easy To Buy MISC Article marketing money. Search engine submission Increase website traffic Creating a membership site Website marketing strategy Gurus for site design Website content positioning Recurring monthly revenue Definition of guru Articles versus blogs Clickbank website design How to make a website Website Money Value of blog posts and links Jobs and making money on the net Registering domain names 5 tips for search engine optimization Free websites and video sites Google Adsense Tip Designing for browsers, common mistakes Resources to help you design your website |
important rules in website designMake sure you pay attention to every little detail on your website. Then it will perform the way it's supposed to and the way you and your visitors expect. Below are some important rules of thumb to follow if you want happy visitors and want them to return.Splash pages are usually kind of extravagant and serve no real purpose other than to look pretty. They usually look great and have a button of text that says click here to enter and quite probably have a welcome to my site thing or other wording. These are just pages with no real purpose and time was wasted in designing them. Give you visitors the site and the info without subjecting them to pretty splash pages and you won't get near as many people hitting their back button. Never use to many banners on your website. Most people, even beginning surfers, learn to ignore banners ads right away so you are wasting valuable space on your site with something that doesn't work very well. If you provide great content and put relevant text links to an affiliate in here and there it will work better than banners. You put your visitors in a more relaxed position where they feel they want to buy rather than feeling you are pushing them into something they may not want.
You may recall, on a previous page I talked about navigation being one of the biggest surfer complaints. Therefore you need some very clear and simple navigation in a straight forward menu so even a beginning surfer can find what they are looking for without a big hassle. Stay away from complicated java, flash or drop down menus for navigation. They don't work for everyone and they also make your site hard to navigate. If your visitor finds it to tough they just move on to another website where it's easier to find what they want. Give the user a clear indication of where they are at all times. It's done on this site with the headline above the text on every page. When surfers get so engrossed in your site sometimes they flat out forget where they are or how they got there. Particularly in a huge and complicated site. You want you visitors to be able to navigate anywhere easily. Don't confuse them or they will be gone in a second. Another big surfer complaint is audio. It's in the top ten. Don't use it at all. If you absolutely think you have to have it give surfers a way to mute it or stop it all together. It's very annoying to have audio when you don't want it and if you don't give them a way to shut it off or mute it they will leave rather than subject themselves to audio they don't want to begin with. |