Friday, October 24, 2014

Effectively Designing A Website For Your Business

By Shellie Albelo


If you have ever wanted to create your own website, you are probably aware of how frightening the prospect is. Creating a web identity for yourself or anyone else can be intimidating. To do a good job of creating a website, you need some basic information, and that is what we present here.

For multimedia presentations, take advantage of the new HTML5 standard. Although HTML5 isn't quite as robust for animation and games as Flash, it has the advantage of working stably on mobile phone browsers, including those contained in Apple hardware. HTML5 is also quite a bit leaner than Flash, so load times will improve, as well.

Avoid using so-called "mystery meat navigation". This involves using unlabeled images or other elements for the site's navigation. In many cases, the visitor has to mouse over the buttons to even see what they do. Navigation is best kept simple. Use text links across the top or along the left side of the page.

It may look pretty, but stay away from having too many animations on your site. Having your sales splash page rotate, spin and blink may look cool to you, but it will likely drive potential viewers away. When you add too many flashy splashes like that, it makes your site look amateurish which is not the message you want to convey.

Don't make your page sizes any larger than necessary. Some Internet users have slow connections, and they will grow impatient with your site. You don't need visitors having pages get stuck every time they load because they may just leave your site and not return.

Organize your links and avoid putting too many links in one area of your site. Doing this can confuse visitors and make them leave your site. If you do have many low- to mid-importance links, emulate the "blogrolls" seen in many blogs and tuck them away in a column on the right side of the page.

Keep your website fresh and free of dated content. When you are offering specials that are past their expiration, you will watch your visitor counts dwindle. The average online user values fresh content and attention to detail. Create a schedule that will help you manage information and specials, and remind you to take down useless items.

If your site users will be registering to use your site, you should use their personal information to auto-fill forms. For example, if someone registers for your site, and some of the same information is needed to fill out another form, make sure data that they have already entered is preserved, so users do not need to re-enter this information. If you use this data to your advantage, users will be able to save time as they navigate your site.

As you can see, designing a website is not that difficult. There are some bottom-line fundamentals that deal with web design and once you learn them, it helps you put the entire group into its proper place. Use the advice presented here to gain the basic knowledge of web design you need, to start implementing some really fantastic website features.




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