Useful Tips for User – Friendly Web Designing

Your companies Wisconsin website is a necessary marketing tool for your business. Currently 85% of local shoppers use the Internet to do research for a purchase coming up. For the website to be good it must be visually appealing (not perfect) and be able to grab the visitors attention with great and useful content.

Wisconsin website design is an art and also needs to done with the involvement of all the decision makers. When everyone is involved the website will be user friendly to the visitors. using marketing strategies when designing the website will improve your visibility of the website in the search engines.

As you can see web design is a key aspect of how your website will turn out. Planning the website will lead to a better design that is user friendly. Here are a few tips gained from experience that when implemented will yield a used and useful site.

Here are the tips that will help make your website a great one!

1). Ask yourself  “what am I trying to Convey with this website?”

The answer to this question will lead you to what you will need to do. It is best to have one general theme throughout the website, like web design. Once the designer knows what the site is about they can do proper headers, pictures, and articles. Your answer to the question will lead you all the way to a good and meaningful web design. For designing a website, one should have a theme. On getting to know more of what the website is about, as a designer or as a Webmaster, it will be easy for you to design accordingly.

2). Planning for the web design

Advance planning makes website work proceed smoothly. As a website owner you should go to all of your competitors and see their sites for ideas of what you like and don’t like. Then expand that search to include all websites and the features you like. Make sure you write all the ideas down. Next ask old and new clients what they would like to see in a website to try and get a pulse of what visitors might like.

3). Setting theme and layout

After your research and planning, the vital part of your web design is the collection of assets. The first step will be theme selection and web page layout. There are personal websites, informational websites, ecommerce websites, blogs, and service providing websites. It is all in the hands of a designer to select a matching theme to satisfy the need and implement it attractively. It is also important that the designer know what your goals are for customer interaction.

4). Web Page Design

Neat and informative web pages are the most visited pages on the net. To design such a web page, the important elements to be taken note of are the header, footer, text area and the navigational area. Avoid using animated/flashy headers and navigational icons. Use a uniform header and footer to give a professional look to the website. These, when designed with care and when followed, will result in good web design.

5). Site Map and Navigation

In web designing, the term navigation goes hand in hand with user friendly. Navigation within the website should be very clear and easy to find. Always try to implement normal links for moving around, and avoid animated buttons. Users prefer either navigation to be on the top or the right side of the web page. Make sure the visitor also has easy access back to the home page. The site map is another important and easy way for finding web pages in the website.

6). Usage of images and text

Web designing is all about expressing the ideas of the business to people. For it to be a success, use of correct images for communicating the content of the website to the visitors is a must. It is important that the pictures break up long pages and make everything easier to read. The text in the webpage must be search engine optimized and must convey the message clearly. It should also lead to a very clear call to action; meaning what you want your visitor to do on the page.

7). Page Size and Download Time

After placing the images, links and the text, the complete page should not exceed 30 KB. This size will ensure that the page is downloaded quickly, within 5 to 6 seconds. This time is crucial time because either it may bring visitors or divert them to another website of the same type.

This has been a short reminder about how to design a website. I hope this helps you when you design your new website. Feel free to call me at 262-953-6026 or email me at dforer@comstar.biz and i will try and help in whatever way I can.