subject: 5 Essential Laws Of Website Design [print this page] When it comes to your website, further attention ought to be paid to every small detail to make sure it performs perfectly to serve up its purpose. Here are seven important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.
1) Avoid using splash pages
Splash pages are the main pages you see when you come to a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like "welcome" or "click here to enter". In fact, they are just that -- pretty ornaments with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a basis to click on the "back" button! Offer them the value of your site right away without the splash page.
2) Do not use unnecessary banner advertisements
Even a newbie hastrained themselves to avoid banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, give more valueable content and enter relevant affiliate links into your content, and let your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.
3) Have a easy and clear navigation
You have to give a plain and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a novice will be able to to use it. Stay away from unnecessary Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus. If your visitors don't know how to navigate, they will leave your site.
4) Have a plain indication of where the user is
When visitors are deeply immersed in browsing your site, you will need to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse appropriate information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don't confuse your visitors because confusion means "abandon ship"!
5) pass up using audio on your site
If your visitor is going to stay a long period at your site, reading your content, you will want to make sure they're not bothered by some audio looping on and on on your website. If you maintain on adding audio, make sure they have some control over it -- volume or muting controls would work fine.
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