7 Website Design Tips to enhance your website
Posted By : mattyb 22nd Apr 20077 Website Design Tips to enhance your website
"How can I attract visitors to my site?” many people ask this question. Well, driving traffic to a website is very important, but what's even more important, is designing a website in such a way that it will make people stay longer.
In this article, you're going to learn 7 important website design tips to make your site more attractive. So not only will your website will more people, but it will also motivate them to stay for a long time.
Colour Scheme
If your company has a logo or preferred colours on its stationery then that's a good start. For those of you starting from scratch, choose two or three complementary colours and stick with them - don't change colours on every page. The most common colour schemes include:
- Red, yellow and white
- Blue and white
- Red, grey and white
- Blue, orange and white
- Yellow, grey and white.
- Onion shade, Tan, white
If you're not sure what colour scheme to choose, surf the internet and find a website that you like. You can then model your colour scheme on what already exists.
Always Select those colours which Attract the visitors, and the person revisit your site.
Page Backgrounds
Ensure your visitors can read the text on the background, i.e. no black writing on a dark blue background or yellow on white. So if the page has a dark background use light colours and if the page background is light then use dark. Also ensure your links are visible before and after being visited. The default for links in most programs is blue (before being visited) and dark purple (after being visited), so if you have a dark background, ensure your links are light.
Page Loading
All I've seen for the last 10 minutes is 'page loading', I think something might be wrong with my browser this is probably one of the biggest gripes a site visitor has. If your page takes more than a minute to load (on dial-up) and you have anything less than the meaning of life hidden within your content - something needs to be done. The average person does not have time they just go for another site. So a good website takes less time for loading a site.
Page Size / Dimensions
Web pages are measured in pixels. Pixels are the unit of measurement for the screen. A Web page can literally be any size. Remember not everyone has a big screen so it is best to test your layout on several screen resolutions (1024x768 is the current default size to code for).
Website Logo
Create a simple logo to identity your website. Have a captivating tag line somewhere with the header, and write an About Us page which describes the uniqueness of your website. These will leave an impression for your visitors to remember your website.
Website Graphics
You must be careful in choosing graphics for the internet, remember to optimise all images, if the image has 12 colours then save it as a GIF file instead of JPEG to ensure a smaller file size, also remember you can “splice” images into multiple images for faster downloading.
Grammar and Spelling
You have a great looking website, fantastic content but your website still fails, why? Well it might be due to grammar and spelling. Its amazing how many websites have spelling errors or the grammar of the paragraph is written in such a way that no one understands what is being said. Most applications have built in spell checkers so use it! As for grammar, read what you have put down and when it sounds correct to you ask a friend to read it!
About the Author:
Matthew Bagley is the owner of Paramiliar Design Studios(http://www.paramiliar.com) Working with many companies their aim is to give your business the online potential it deserves. Visit http://www.paramiliar.com/articles.html to find more articles written by Paramiliar Design Studios
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