1. 5 Essential Keys To Webdesign Success
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2. When designing your site, additional
concentration should be paid to every
small detail to ensure that your site
performs optimally and ultimately serve its
purpose Listed below are 5 vital
instructions you have to obey to maximize
user experience on your site
7. You will be wasting valuable website real
estate if you use excessive banner adverts
because most
8. People have now trained themselves to
ignore banner advertisements.
9. Instead of bombarding your Site with
banner ads, provide them with more
important content laced with related
affiliate links into your content so that
your visitors will feel their want to buy
instead of being pushed to buy
11. Provide a direct and easy navigation menu
such that even a 9-year-old will know how
to use it.
12. Shun the use of complicated flash-based
menus or multi-tiered Drop-down menus.
If your site is too complicated to browse
through, visitors will leave at an instant
14. Here is what i mean; in a situation
whereby visitors have been deeply
engrossed in Searching through your
site, ensure that you have pathway that
shows them where they are at that
moment.
15. Through this, they are less confused about
any section of your site and hence are
confident of navigating through any part
of your site knowing fully well that they
can always find their way through.
Failure to do this means you are bound to
lose webs visitors
17. Since your site will be providing
information through content, you should
ensure that they are not angry by some
audio playing over and over on your
website.
18. However if you must Add audio, allow web
visitors to have a certain degree of control
over it. Example, pause or stop controls
would do just fine
19. Now that you have the keys to a good
design let me add five extra tips you can
use to ensure that visitors keep coming
back to your site
21. By starting a chat room or forum, you are
providing your visitors an opportunity to
air their own opinions and interact with
their colleagues, all of which are your
website visitors
23. Maintain a blog on your site and ensure
that it contains fresh contents about
yourself as well as your products and
services.
24. People are inquisitive by nature and they
don’t mind hanging on to your site for as
long as possible provided you post fresh
contents frequently which could be twice
in a week or three times within the week.
Doing this will also improve your
credibility as the life behind the website.
26. These two forms of interaction are worth
adding to your site.
They provide a fast way for visitors to air
their opinions and to also get involved in
your website.
27. Ensure that polls or surveys relevant to
your target audience/market are
published. This is to keep them interested
to discover more about the results
29. Picture how many office employees and
even their employers procrastinate at work
daily. This would give you an idea of the
number of people certain to return to your
site, provided you get them addicted to
your website through entertainment.
30. You can also Offer contests to award the
highest score winner by way of cash or
product discounts.
This would ensure continued participation
from visitors
32. Apprise your site constantly with new
content so that at all times when your
visitors come back, they be more
informed, this is the most commonly
known and most efficient method of
magnetizing returning visitors.
33. However, this is the least applied method
the reason being that most webmasters are
lazy.
Remember no one myself included will
want to browse a site that looks the same
for over ten years, hence, let your site be
refreshed with new contents.
34. Paul adedoyin is a webdesigner, web
programmer and the owner of
www.theserviceoption.com where he sells
web design products and also accepts
webdesign projects including the design of
data based driven websites. His blog is
www.theserviceoption.com/guru where he
shares online marketing tips for free
