Effective Web Design
To attract traffic and visitors to your website, it is important to design your website effectively as well as have good content. The web site must offer artistic designs , attractive web design , quality web design and graphics coupled with practicality and functionality.
Graphics and content
Unless your website is directly dealing with the use of graphics, it is advisable that they are used sparingly. Not only are graphics distracting but also take too long to load, making it thus a nuisance value. You do not want your readers to leave your website because your graphically attractive page is just too slow. In saying that however, only text is boring. So a combination of both graphics and content is a must. The page must look attractive as well as interesting to glean information from.
Layout and design
While designing web sites it is important to remember that poor layout and design will make your pages unreadable and difficult to keep your visitors on your website for long. Some of the things that make a poor design and layout are:
- Font too small to read; colour combinations making the text hard to decipher
- Large graphics that take too long to load
- Multiple graphics opening up leading to distractions
- Complex and slow navigation
- Unclear distinctions between paragraphs
- Graphics that don't fit on the screen and animations that never stop
- Complicated frames and cluttered screen
Some of the things that make a webpage stand apart from the others:
- Quick downloads
- Clear text, pleasing graphics
- Readable fonts and good colours in background and for content
- Navigation buttons and bars are easy to understand and use
- A large index or site map
- Every graphic link has a matching text link
- Animated graphics turn off by themselves
- All pages have the immediate visual impact within 640 x 460 pixels
Planning
A little planning can go a long away in making your web design effective. When designing a website, it needs to be clean, uncluttered, attractive and easy for users to read and find what they need. Decide on the fonts and color you want, ensure that the colours are complimentary, what text, images, and data you want to put on the pages, what kind of a layout you desire etc.
Keeping all these factors in mind will help you to get a effective and good looking web site.