5 Top Tips For Website Design - By: Vince Collaso

Designing your website can prove to be a difficult task. Pay attention to every detail for optimum results and functionality. Here are five good tips when using your website design software:

1) Splash Pages: Don't use them

Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like "welcome" or "click here to enter". In fact, they are just that -- pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the "back" button! Give them the value of your site up front without that annoying splash page. You want them to stay, not leave immediately.

2) Cut down on your banner ads

Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, provide more valuable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, and let your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.

3) Clear and simple navigation

You have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus. If your visitors don't know how to navigate, they will leave your site.

4) Know where the user is at all times

When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don't confuse your visitors because confusion means "abandon ship"!

5) Try not to use audio on your site

If your visitor is going to stay a long time on your site reading your content, you will want to make sure they're not annoyed by some audio looping on and on on your website. If you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control over it -- volume or muting controls would work fine.

Website design an be difficult, yes. Yet the difficulty can be avoided by following a few rules; avoiding splash pages, using few banner ads, clear navigation and not using audio on the website. These rules will make for a more effective website that is more attractive to visitors now and in the future.

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