How to Create Effective Website Designs

Today web site design is more important than ever due to the large number of web sites competing for visitor’s attention and high search engine rankings.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

• A web site Creativity Knowledge of basic web site building

1. Do not use splash pages. Some splash page take time to open and most surfers are impatient. Let the surfer see your web page and eliminate the splash page.
2. Do not use excessive banner advertisements. Instead, provide more valuable content and let your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.
3. Provide simple and clear navigation. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered drop down menus. If your visitors don't know how to navigate your site you will loose them.
4. Keep the typeface for your headlines copy simple and easy to read by using arial or times roman. Fancy typefaces are o.k. for logos.
5. Avoid using background music on your site. If you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control over it -- volume or muting controls would work fine.
6. Keep images small enough so the web page loads quickly. Visitor’s don’t like waiting.

Tips & Warnings

• Making your web site user friendly and a place where visitors want to go is extremely important. Remember; you are dealing with thousands of websites competing for the same visitors.