Website Design Tips And Suggestions

by on March 30, 2008

The success of a website relies on the web site content. The most major factor in keeping customers on your site long enough to see your product is website design. The design of a page will either keep customers on your site, or scare them away.

An ideal website design will play a big role in creating the want for your product or service today. Many consumers, as research shows, will often put off purchasing needs for wants. Many of us can look back and see at least once when we put off something we needed so that we could buy something we wanted today.

There was a time in which people either focused on website design or graphic design, but that’s not the case anymore. Today, webmasters can incorporate effective graphics into their sites easily, using built-in features, without the help of a graphic designer. Graphics can cause problems for a site, slowing it down considerably. But products like FrontPage have made significant breakthroughs, and allow you to avoid creating designs that can overload the system.

Automatic Thumbnails are available at the click of a button without special coding knowledge. They allow the designer to display large images without significantly reducing page load time. Simply right click on any image and choose “auto thumbnail”. The link to the larger graphic is created automatically. Fine-tuning preferences for thumbnails is done by going to page properties and then auto thumbnails. You can also choose to have the graphic open in a new window by adjusting the hyperlink properties.

However terrific your graphics may be, if they take too long to load, your readers won’t wait around to view them. You can compress the majority of graphics by 30% of their quality and still not have them look noticeably worse, but this will result in a much shorter amount of time required to load them.

These options are available only while the picture is being saved. If for some reason you decide to change picture options at a later time, simply make a minor change to the graphic. This will cause it to be re-saved so that you can choose to make additional changes.

No matter how nice something appears, the genuine content will decide whether a site can make it or not. However, website design is the bait that brings them in. If something is catchy or attractive, you are much more likely to be able to keep someone around long enough to consider your content or service offering. Many consumers, as research shows, will often put off purchasing needs for wants. Many of us can look back and see at least once when we put off something we needed so that we could buy something we wanted today.

– Tem Balanco

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