Consistent Look and Feel
A consistent look and feel is always recommended when designing a website. Design consistency is guaranteed with YourWebPro. YourWebPro websites have a pre determined look which can't be changed by your design effort. Only contextual and graphical material can be adjusted using YourWebPro. Customization is available to your look and feel of your website up to $1000.00 worth of design time.
Who is your site for? The site maybe yours, but it has to be built for your visitors. Consider what your client's may be looking for and more importantly what you haven't been able to find on other sites as a consumer yourself.
Content, content, content !
Content or lack there of is another huge problem in web design. Most sites don't' have enough content to support the goods and services they offer. Don't be afraid to add information to your website. The more information you supply the better informed your viewers will be. YourWebPro allows you to create sections and manage pages within seconds in real time. Content is king as long as the navigation is clear and the information displayed is relevant to the content within your website.
Navigation
Your site should be easy to navigate, visually attractive, highly informative and simple to use. Make sure your navigation clearly displays your information and is well organized. This is a major problem with web design, most companies don't make sure you can easily navigate within their websites leaving customer to have to have to take time to email your website and ask a question you could have answered within your website content. This type of error will result in lost production and eventually will have an economic impact on your company and your employees time.
Don't make it difficult to use your customer to use your website!
Don't ask visitors to download software in order to use the site. They want speedy service, or may fear downloading a virus. Either way, they'll leave the site to find a more accessible one.
Pictures and Graphics
Make your website graphics and pictures easy to the eye. Break up large amounts of text with graphics, pictures or animation to give the viewer something else to look at and catch their attention. However be careful don't have too much happening on your site, this may cause a distraction to your viewer. Most importantly you need to be cognoscente of the size of your page when you add pictures or graphics. Most internet friendly web designs have pages less then 100K. YourWebPro helps you accomplish this task by automatically optimizing and sizing your pictures and graphics for your use.
Get a second opinion
Perform tests prior to launch. Give friends, family, colleagues or customers access to the site and gauge their opinions. Another set of eyes never hurts. YourWebPro allows users to change content regularly to avoid having a stale website or a non user friendly website so it's ok to make changes.
Summary
Web design can be a fun experience and a profitable experience if you remember some basic rules.
| 1. | Plan your design before you start |
| | Make sure you have a clear plan for your design and layout |
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| 2. | Consistent look and feel throughout your website |
| | YourWebPro makes this easy to accomplish with their professionally designed websites. |
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| 3. | Content |
| | Make sure your content is relevant to the products and services you want your viewers to buy or read about. |
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| 4. | Pictures/ Graphics |
| | Make sure your text includes graphics and pictures to brighten up the way you display your information. Don't overload your pages however, keep your page size under 100K. You can determine the page size by adding up the size of each picture. This can be done by right clicking the image to get the individual pictures size. Text is very small in terms of size so your pictures will be your main concern. |
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| 5. | Get a second opinion |
| | Before you launch your website ask people and customers to take a look at it. Look for bugs, broken links or anything that may cause a user to leave your website. |