Improve Your Website In 5 Steps

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When it comes to your website design, extra attention should be paid to every detail to make sure the design achieves its purpose. Here are a few rules of thumb to make sure your website performs well.

1)Splash pages should not be used

Splash pages may look nice but they are likely to cause the reader to head for another site before they even find out what you are offering. Busy surfers want information and may move on from the splash page to other straight to the point sites.

2) Banner advertisements can be distracting

Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements. You will be wasting valuable website real estate and your visitor’s time with unwanted banners. Instead, provide more relevant information and integrate your affiliate links into your content. Let your visitors feel they are making make the decision to buy instead of bombarding them with advertising.

3) Have a simple and clear navigation

Your menu system should be simple and straightforward. Make it easy for your readers to know where they are and where they need to go for the information they want. Otherwise, they will leave your site in a hurry.

4) Readers want to know where they are

Put up some ‘you are here’ signs on your pages so the visitor does not get lost. If they get confused, the easiest way out may be the exit button and you want to make sure they don’t press that too soon!

5) Audio and video should be used cautiously

Use sound carefully. Tastes vary, and you need to make sure not to annoy your potential customers with unwanted audio. If you believe audio will improve your site by all means use it but provide some easy to find control over it — volume or muting controls. Nothing makes me hit the exit button faster than sound blasting at me when a page loads! Videos usually have to be started by the viewer. You may want to use the same technique with sound.

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