Everything is online in today’s high tech world. Here you can do everything from playing, downloading pictures to buying, selling and lots more. There are millions of websites around on any of the topic you imagine. And as the internet usage is on the rise with every single day means web designing is also getting more technical and diversified. Hence the chances of someone having similar site as you are also not rare. Every site owner have this question that why do some sites succeed while the other vast majority might not perform that better. There are fewer web pages on the internet that clearly have a best web site design. The features that they have which you need to explore in yours are:
Smooth Navigation: Best web site’s navigation scheme is very simple and is consistent from page to page. It really doesn’t matter where their menu bar is; they always have a small text menu at the bottom of every page. Of course flash add necessary glitter to your site but you should avoid using it to design your navigations. Besides such practices doesn’t work well with search engines. As most of the search engines won’t be able to read the pages if it uses flash for navigations.
Logos & Graphics: All well planned sites have graphics of reasonable size, used suitably in accordance with the products and page descriptions. Average net savvy today never wait for more than 10 seconds to see your huge, beautiful logo if it takes too long to loads onto the screen. So compress the graphics if you must have to use lots of graphics to make your, point. For details on how to apply graphic effectively in your web site design, visit: “ Importance of Graphics in Web Designing “.
Stick to your goal & subject: Best sites always stick to their subject and their whole layout and presentation is worked around it. So keep your goal in mind. The temptation to put as many bells and whistles as you can on a page is overwhelming without any doubt. Avoid them unless it’s that necessary to have them as the purpose of designing a site is not to have a cool looks but to accomplish the intended target of the site.
Index Page: 1st page of every great website have the information about who they are and what’s their offerings. Sometimes I got surprised when any site misses out on this basic stuff. Net surfers have no patience they’ll just gonna click away in a second.
Resolution: Resolution for the design is a subject which confuses many. The general norm these days is 800x600 although there are still few who are limping along in 640x480. Always look at your site in different resolutions to get a better idea. If you don't mind letting the small majority scroll right and left, I recommend that you should go by 800x600 as it still is acceptable for those surfing in mega resolutions.
Privacy Policy: Best sites always have a clear privacy statement. So if you collect any type of information from your visitors, even if it’s regarding their email address then you need to include a privacy policy. You should post a link to it on every page of your site. Commercial web site must have a privacy statement. Provide a link to your privacy statement from every page on the site as well as from any of those locations where visitors have to submit personal information.
Links: The best feature of great designed site is its links that connects to other pages of the site as well as external links to connect to other related links on the web. If you have more links in your site then better to use them liberally in your pages. Links also simplify the navigation scheme of your site.
Be Search Engine Friendly
As more than 9/10th of all web users find what they are looking for by searching through the top search engines means your web pages and content must be easy for the search engine spiders to find and navigate through. Your focus should be on keywords and their relative density in your pages in a meaningful way. Use them in naming your pages and within the body content of the page. Try to use meta tags keywords, description and title as much as possible.
Contact Information: All neatly designed sites have contact info along with their email address at the bottom of every page. No body likes if he has to search through an entire website just to send the owner an email. Don't force visitors to fill out a whole form when he just wants to add a simple comment.
Implementing all these tips while designing your web site will not going to change your site into Microsoft’s overnight but you'll certainly have an interesting, well-designed site. These steps will accelerate your site's traffic; which ultimately have a fruitful result. If not in weeks then surely in months your site will be the one people will want to return to again and again.
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