OnLine Business
Tips For Designing Your Website
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Oct 25, 2006, 22:27

If you have made a website, you should pay attention to each and every detail to make it exactly what you have planned it to be.

You must design it to fit the purpose you have in mind for it. There are many sales people out there who want you to think that if you buy their products it will make your website popular and profitable.

Most of these products are not going to help you make money, they are going to help the sellers make money. You do not have to buy anything. You can research on the Internet to find all the information you need.

Here are some tips to help.

1) Splash Pages are wasted space.

A splash page is one of the first pages people will see when they go to a website. Usually they will have the word welcome or click here to enter, sometimes a lovely picture, and that is their job. They serve no purpose.

Don't let your visitors waste their time. Show them immediately what your site has to offer them without the extra work involved in a wasted page. Remember, No splash pages.

2) Banner ads are invisible.

Everyone, today, knows that banner ads are just that. Ads. And they are just about invisible to most people. They don't even see them. You will be wasting your web space, don't you have more valuable content to put there?

You can put affiliate ads that are relevant to your content. Don't let your visitors think your entire site is just a sales push, forcing them to look at ads. Limit the ads, put in only relevant ones, and visitors will feel like they can buy if they want.

3) No Flash

Make your site clear and concise. Stay away from flash based menus, or multitiered drop down menus. If your site is too complicated to find information on, your visitors will leave.

The easier it is for them to find the information you are offering, the longer they will look.

4) Easy Navigation

Make sure your visitors know where they are on your site. When they are searching through your website, your visitors don't want to be confused.

They will want to know where they are at all times, and how to get to other sections. If you confuse them, they will leave.

5) No Audio

Audio isn't necessary on your site. Brief, concise paragraphs are. People tend to scan your articles, and want quick information. If you have audio playing, they will not be reading your content.

If you want them to stay give them information written clearly, and make sure it is easy to understand. If you must have audio make sure there are controls so your visitors can mute it.

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