5 steps to a better looking website
Don’t make your visitors think too much
Don’t make your customers think! People use the internet for convenience.
When they get to your website and have to think too much, they will
leave. If they do not find the content they are looking for right away,
they will leave. They do not assume that they can find what they are
looking for if they keep clicking deep within your site. They think that
if it isn’t on the front page, it isn’t anywhere.
- First thing is first
What is the main thing your site is supposed to deliver? What is the best
thing that you sell? What do your visitors want? That one thing needs to
be the biggest thing emphasized on the site. People will assume the
biggest thing on your site is the most important. The biggest thing is
the most likely to get clicked, but in the end they will click what they
want to click. Try to align the most clickable graphic with the one that
makes you the most money.
- Use common conventions
People have finally figured out the shopping cart icon. If you go to an e-commerce website and see a shopping cart icon, you know that you can
click that icon to buy something. You know that if you see a house icon,
you can click on it to go back to the home page. Do not try to reinvent
well established icons like these. Use established conventions and icons
that are proven to work.
-Tell your visitors what they should click on.
People like to click. We all get a little click happy at times. But you
do not want people to guess what they should click on when they get to
your web page. Do you think that everyone knows your web banners are
clickable? No. Sometimes you have to write “click here” on your clickable
banners and images.
-The most important thing on the webpage should also be the biggest. What
is that thing? Whatever is most important to the customer and makes you
the most money. Use bigger fonts and brighter colors to emphasize that
the most money. Use bigger fonts and brighter colors to emphasize that most important thing!
-Get rid of background noise and busyness
You may be distracting your customers without even realizing it. How so?
By having too many options that are not related. One page can only
communicate so much content. If you try to say too much, people will not hear anything.
Don’t make your customers think! People use the internet for convenience.
When they get to your website and have to think too much, they will
leave. If they do not find the content they are looking for right away,
they will leave. They do not assume that they can find what they are
looking for if they keep clicking deep within your site. They think that
if it isn’t on the front page, it isn’t anywhere.
- First thing is first
What is the main thing your site is supposed to deliver? What is the best
thing that you sell? What do your visitors want? That one thing needs to
be the biggest thing emphasized on the site. People will assume the
biggest thing on your site is the most important. The biggest thing is
the most likely to get clicked, but in the end they will click what they
want to click. Try to align the most clickable graphic with the one that
makes you the most money.
- Use common conventions
People have finally figured out the shopping cart icon. If you go to an e-commerce website and see a shopping cart icon, you know that you can
click that icon to buy something. You know that if you see a house icon,
you can click on it to go back to the home page. Do not try to reinvent
well established icons like these. Use established conventions and icons
that are proven to work.
-Tell your visitors what they should click on.
People like to click. We all get a little click happy at times. But you
do not want people to guess what they should click on when they get to
your web page. Do you think that everyone knows your web banners are
clickable? No. Sometimes you have to write “click here” on your clickable
banners and images.
-The most important thing on the webpage should also be the biggest. What
is that thing? Whatever is most important to the customer and makes you
the most money. Use bigger fonts and brighter colors to emphasize that
the most money. Use bigger fonts and brighter colors to emphasize that most important thing!
-Get rid of background noise and busyness
You may be distracting your customers without even realizing it. How so?
By having too many options that are not related. One page can only
communicate so much content. If you try to say too much, people will not hear anything.
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