subject: Five Tips For Effective Website Design [print this page] Sometimes as you are surfing or doing some internet searches, you encounter one or a few very arresting websites. You may start wondering if you can design a nice website layout for you or your business. The answer is absolutely Yes; and you will have the website if you follow 5 steps below:
1.Doing a business/purpose-based research
2.Right targeting to your audience
3.Creating 3 "" 5 concepts for your website
4.Sending your concepts to your friends or partners for reviews.
5.Deciding the best on-target look and feel for your website.
First, it is very clear that a website is designed and developed for purposes unless it is unimpressive or boring. Let"s keep your business or your purpose in mind and do some research to confirm which styles and modalities that your website should be formed to. You can see that in the information technology field or for an internet guru, the style might be block by block or a clean design with wide space inside style. It is necessary for you to "Google" which websites are the most popular in the information technology field and what style they are applying. Then, you will be able to confirm which styles and modalities your website will be designed to.
Second, don"t forget your audience! It is believed that target audience analysis must be the first and foremost objective if you want to have a successful website. Your website will fail to generate leads if you do not know who are going to visit your website. The audience factors like gender, race, age group, geographical locality, profession, etc., will be considered to confirm your target audience. You are starting a website for web designing and development business; you must clearly target your website to your target groups: big clients or small and medium clients. The specific and on-target content on the website will create better chance for the targeted group of obtaining your service description or relevant information for their services purchase decision.
Third, having sufficient information and evidence in hand and knowing who will be visiting your website; it is time to create website layout concepts. Don"t try to create 1 unique concept for your website; just release your mind and try to fall in to 3 "" 5 random concepts. You imagine you are your prospect; then you will find out what should be included in your concepts. You can draw out busy or clean concepts. You may prefer a busy layout or clean one, but all of your concepts are apparently valuable as they run out from your thoughtful mind. In case, you are not confident in designing or creating concepts, you may have your design consultant do it for you. But it is necessary to provide your consultant with all the relevant information that you have obtained for your consultant to produce the right concepts for you.
Forth, your friends or your partners may find your concepts nice or not. So, don"t hesitate send all your quick concepts to your friends and partners who know your business or about you well. They will give you valuable feedback or comments. You know for sure that after drawing your concepts or being given by your consultant, you may like one or two of the designed concepts in the subjective manner, but your friends or partners do not.
Fifth, it is your turn to decide the best on-target concept for your website. Sometimes a choice is hard to make; but with all the comments/feedback from your friends and partners and your likes, you can absolute make an appropriate decision to confirm what your website looks like. To this point, it is certainly clear that you would be happy with the look and feel of your website as you have gone through all the necessary steps in creating a nice website layout .
In Brief, a nice website or blog should need your great efforts. Some people just give the job or request to their consultant, or let the web design consultant decide everything himself regardless of target audience or objective referrals, etc. But doing a business/purpose-based research, targeting to the right audience, creating over 3 concepts, forwarding designed concepts to friends or partners for reviews, and deciding the best on-target look and feel for the website are important steps to make a really nice and arresting website layout.
