Monday 13 May 2013

Understanding The Importance Of Excellent Website Design

By Brian L. Briseno


The overall point of having a site is so that people throughout the world will know about what you are trying to let them know through the internet. And the more traffic your website will get on a regular basis, the better it'll be for your site. For this reason, it's important to draw in as many internet users to your website as possible. But how do you make that happen?

Many site owners have tried driving high traffic to their websites, but not everyone has been successful. The reason for this is that driving high traffic to a website takes a lot of work, which includes expertise on the techniques. There are particular methods on how to increase the number of your visitors and how to make them stay as long as possible. You must know and use these strategies in driving high website visitors.

One technique is to make your website design very simple. A complicated design is very unlikely to attract anyone to go to your site, look around, and stay. Imagine if you're just browsing around the internet and you land on a site that is filled with many types of information and links at the homepage, along with colours and illustrations which seem to clash with each other. It's highly likely you would get out of that site in a flash. Thus, create a website with simplicity in mind, although one that will also satisfy and entertain your website visitors.

Errors are another thing to consider when trying to develop a great website which could attract online users in droves. Keep mistakes whenever possible to a minimum. Errors will discourage your site visitors from staying in your site. In addition, it would also make your site seem too unprofessional, that's another deterrent to boosting traffic.

If you can put music in your website, this can also help to make your visitors' time in your site pleasing for them. Just ensure that the suitable kind of music is the one you choose, like one which will go along with your site's theme or your targeted audience. For example, if your target audience is young people, then your choice of music should be something current or upbeat. Generally, although, mellow songs are appreciated by all ages. Sadly, music can also be disadvantageous. This especially happens when it's too noisy. So it is also important that if you have music played in your website, there is a control to minimize the volume or even turn this off. The same thing goes for videos if you also plan to have this in your website.

One of the factors which can really irritate most internet users is pop-ups. Many people couldn't stand pop-ups and would just simply close the page whenever an advertisement or something similar pops up. With this in mind, refrain your website from having pop-ups. Pop-ups can also damage your internet image, if you do not know yet.

Being browser-friendly can also aid your site get high traffic. There are a number of online browsers which are used by internet users. To find out if your site can be opened by several types of browsers, you can simply try to find out by utilizing different browsers to open your website.

It's also advisable never to use flash in your web design. A flash will make your website open very slowly, which will just cause internet surfers to close the page or move on to another site. If you want to develop an attractive site, you can simply make use of appealing graphics together with content which is interesting and useful.

To make your visitors stay and also keep them coming back, it is also very important that your website contains useful content. Useful content will make visiting your website worthwhile for your visitors. So try your best to fill your website only with valuable and high quality content. The inability to have this type of content in your website will only make your site visitors stay for a short time and never come back again. Content should also not only be timeless but there must also be ones that are regularly updated.




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