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So, you don't know where to begin, although you are ready to design a website. You need to put both videos and photos on the web, but making that happen is proving to be more difficult than expected. This is where you will find the web page design advice in this article helpful. Check out some tips below and find out what you're missing. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/AAGEGH4nD_U?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Don't use OnExit popups on your website. This tactic is mainly used by internet marketers who are trying a last-ditch attempt to get a sale. Word about these kinds of popups get around, and they will kill your reputation as a marketer. Mozilla has even taken steps to suppress the text on these popups, citing security risks. To help your website visitors easily navigate through your site, design it so that it becomes easy to find "stuff." When you have a simple site that makes it easy to locate information, you keep your visitors there much longer. They will get frustrated and leave if you make it difficult for them. It's not the 90's anymore, so stay away from using frames. Frames were of great use in the early days of web page design but it had a lot of flaws. Frame designs make it harder for readers to bookmark your site and scrolling becomes a chore. There are much easier ways to provide your users a flow through your website. Make text easy to read if you want your site visitors to spend as much time as possible on your site. One of the most common design mistakes is using graphic backgrounds with patterns or dark colors combine this with equally dark text and you have a recipe for disaster. Unless the text is clear and easy to read, your site will not be a success. Test your website in the most popular browsers and platforms to make sure that it displays correctly. Sometimes scripts that work in one browser may not produce the same results in another browser. So you may need take extra measures, like adding a function for browser detection, in order to ensure that your website will display properly under most conditions. Publish a newsletter, to increase your likelihood of having repeat visitors. Giving your customers a reminder that you're still online and have some great deals or new content that will bring them back to your site for more. Put a form for registration on a sidebar or somewhere visible, yet not interfering with the page's purpose. Send your newsletter only to those who have signed up doing otherwise is considered spam. Make sure everything is easy to locate on your website. Spend some serious thought on how everything on your site will be laid out. When content is randomly thrown on your site with little thought to the layout, you are making things harder for the people whose use of your site ensures your online success - your site visitors. Organize your links and avoid putting too many links in one area of your site. Doing this can confuse visitors and make them leave your site. If you do have many low- to mid-importance links, emulate the "blogrolls" seen in many blogs and tuck them away in a column on the right side of the page. Learning some basic HTML will help you add some interesting extras to your site. For example, you can have words that follow your cursor, or a banner that flashes important information. Make sure to change the colors and fonts occasionally, so you seem more involved with the web site and its design. Task based usability tests are a great way to determine how effective the design of your website is. In general, the purpose of the tasks is to locate some information or functionality that is buried in your website. If your website is well designed, the user should have no difficulty completing the task. If it is not, the task can give you some insight as to which areas of your website could use improvement, on the other hand. Try including real customer testimonials. Very few want to be the first to try a product or service, so let customers know that others have tried your wares and that they were pleased with them. Try asking some clients that have done projects with you to create a short paragraph about their experience with your company, to put on your site. Make sure your business logo is well-designed and prominently on every page of your site. Your logo is a key component of your brand, and it should be one of the first things people see when they go to your website. There are design firms that will make you one at relatively low cost if you can't come up with a good idea for a logo. Step one was to learn how to build a site, and step two is to get down to work and create your design. When you use these tips, you will be able to create a website that performs as you wish. It will help build good relationships with potential customers because of its ease of use and attractive appearance. When you do this, you can't help but achieve online success in more ways than one. Additional Resources [http://www.thisnext.com/item/A10E65D6/7D9B158E/Simple-Steps-For-High-Quality?share=1 Web Design Boston]
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