The following rules summarize the work of web design experts
who are completely familiar with all the aspects of web
design. Heed their advice to avoid any web design surprises.
In designing the web pages for a website you should adhere
to following rules:
1. Pages required: Your website must contain following pages:
* Feedback is necessary to obtain the suggestions of your
visitors.
* Contact us is necessary to establish a relation between you
and your visitors. You should provide your EMAIL so as
visitors should feel that will be given full support.
* About us page should be included in order to publish the
information about your organization. This information could be
year of setup, country from which you operate etc.
* Home page should be included where links to all the other
pages should be provided and the link to Home page should
also be given from all the other pages.
2. Basic Ideas: Website is like an introduction of your
company to perspective customers at distanced location. The
products or services that you offer to your customers should
all be displayed in a presentable manner. It is said that
first impression is the last impression and your website is
the first impression to your target potential customers. The
impression created by your website in visitor mind is not
enough to catch visitors attraction he will simply avoid
your website.
Your Website must be:
* Neat which means that site should not be overcrowded with
too many links.
* Organized means that the different contents from different
sections of website should be placed in different pages.
* Attractive means that the color selection for WebPages
should be as such that it should look nice. The background
color should be light and the design should be able to catch
visitor attention at first look.
* Truthfully, the only difference between you and web design
experts is time. If you'll invest a little more time in
reading, you'll be that much nearer to expert status when
it comes to web design.
* Professional means that unwanted contents should be avoided
and all like contents should be placed in proper headings in
pages. At first site it should be able to show the visitor
their interests for joining your website.
* Small size of WebPages means that too much flashy content
in desire to make webpage look attractive would increase the
size which will cause delay in opening at client site. And
the visitors will simply avoid surfing these type of
websites. So too much unnecessary flashy content should be
avoided.
3. Message: The first question is why anyone should surf your
website? If you are able to answer this question well your
website will be definitely entertained by visitors.
Visitors always look at their interest in surfing your website.
Remember most of visitors are not impressed free products and
services. If you could offer following:
* Entertainment which may include games etc.
* Information which may include latest business news etc.
* Links to other interesting sites.
* Your website should be simple enough to visitors for search
of products and services offered by you to them. And they
should be able to order theses products and services at their
convenience. Your website should also support large number of
payment options. The popular payment methods are: Credit card,
Paypal, Wire transfer etc. Adhering to any one payment option
will cause the visitor to betray which will defame your
organization.
4. Easy and Fast download: Your site should download on client
site in a few seconds. Market research shows that the average
number of surfer leaves a site that fails to load in 7 seconds.
Fast download of our website at client computer will be possible
only when you avoid large graphics and flash
animations. The Home page of your website should not annoy your
visitors with too much links and unwanted messages otherwise
you may loose your visitors. You can also search for tutorial
on how to increase speed of your website in search engines and
implement in your website.
5. Website text: Choice of words does not matter what matters
is appearance of words in WebPages. Dark texts in light
background will be an impressive scheme while dark background
unable the visitor to read the text. Those fonts should be
chosen which are easily available on every computer. Some of
fonts are: Times New Roman, Arial, Courier and Garamond. In
the case visitor do not have required font installed on their
computer your message will not visible n their computer and
which will lose their interest in surfing your website.
6. Privacy: Visitors should get a trust on you that their
private information is being protected by you from other
visitor and does not allow for access and updating to other
visitors. You should highlight your privacy policy and
security aspects.
7. Spelling and grammar: You should be careful in text you
write that you should not commit any spelling mistakes that
will show your inefficiency. You should check it twice before
finalizing the content for your website. You should not make
grammatical mistakes as well.
You can't predict when knowing something extra about web
design will come in handy. If you learned anything new about
web design in this article, you should file the article where
you can find it again.
Article Written by Hans Hasselfors. |
