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4 Ideas To Enhance Your Website Design
Filed Under (Technology) by admin on 15-03-2009
Optimizing your website design with your visitor in mind enhances your visitors experience at your site. Here are 4 ideas to enhance your website design for your visitors comfort and convenience.
Photo credit: Artur Cimoch
1) Avoid using splash pages
Splash pages can be beautiful to behold, but why give your visitor another hoop to jump through and possibly give them a reason to just close the page rather than jump though hoops? Your visitor has already clicked on a link somewhere to go to your site, do they really need or want to spend the time or clicks needed to continue? Time is valuable, respecting your visitors time will show that you have their needs in mind.
2) Avoid overloading your site with annoying banner advertisements
Try including relevant affiliate links unobtrusively in your content along with moderate use of banner ads. Rather than overloading your site with excessive, gaudy or annoying, flashing banners that are hard on the eyes and lead to confusion and “banner overload”.
3) Set up a clear-cut, easy to navigate, navigation menu
Aim to set up your site navigation so that it is easy to get from one page to another from any page a visitor is on. Providing a simple navigation menu will enhance your visitors experience at your website and allow the visitor to easily navigate your site. On the other hand a complicated navigation menu can be confusing and cause visitors to give up and leave the site in frustration, regardless how valuable the content.
4) Avoid using auto-play audio and video on your site
How do you feel when you access a site and are assaulted with a blaring audio and you have to immediately look for the shutoff or mute button– that is if you can find it? Then every page you go to it starts up again? That can get pretty frustrating, giving your visitor a good reason to close your page in frustration just to escape the noise and the frantic searching for the shutoff! Giving your visitor the ability and choice to listen to audio or watch a video if they wish shows your visitor that you have their intent and comfort in mind.











