efore you build your your website with interesting
website, you should content and limit the graphics to
research what makes a improve load times.
website attractive to visitors. A
2) Limit the banner
website’s appeal has a lot to do advertisements.
with simple website design.
Excessive use of banner
Creating a poorly-designed advertisements will not only
website can have adverse effects, force your web pages to load
such as repelling visitors and slower, but too many banners ads
damaging your online credibility. will irritate and annoy your
Follow these five do's and don'ts visitors rather than entertain
to ensure you design a website them. Many experienced webmasters
that emulates good usability from will tell you the days of
a visitor's perspective. successful banner advertising are
1) Splash pages add little or no in the past. Most web surfers
value – so get rid of them.
have learned to tune out such
What's a splash page? It's the annoying banner ads. You can
first page you see when you probably get away with having one
arrive at a website. The bad ones or two banners per page that
say something like "Welcome!" and match the context of your web
then have you wait a few minutes pages, but overdoing it will only
while audio or video loads. Your make you look like an
website visitors have short amateur.
attention spans. Your site is
3) Design a simple and easy to
competing with millions of understand navigation menu.
others. Making your visitors wait
I’m sure you have recently
will make them hit their visited a website that left you
browser’s back button and go bewildered and frustrated because
elsewhere. You should design the you couldn’t navigate yourself
first page, the "Home" page, of around and couldn’t find specific
information. Did you revisit this free readability tester at
website? Most likely not, because www.ReadabilityFormulas.com to
the experience was too determine if your visitors can
frustrating. Learn from your own read and understand your
experience and make sure you plan content.
your site's navigation menu so it
5) Get rid of that annoying
is logical and easy to music.
understand. It's a good idea to
You don't have cheesy "tunes"
test it on a few friends to see playing in the background on your
if they can find what they're website, do you? If so, get rid
looking for without help from of them. It won't do you any
you. If they can't, you need to favors; you'll just come across
improve it.
as an amateur who wants to annoy
4) Pick your website color his visitors. That's not to say
schemes wisely.
audio and video don’t have a
If you give your visitors a place on a successful website.
headache when they're at your The increasing use of broadband
site they'll a) leave quickly; makes it acceptable to integrate
and b) not come back. One of the informative and entertaining
best ways to achieve these audio and video into web pages
undesirable results is to use a that target your audience’s
color scheme that even a interests. Just make sure you
colorblind person finds allow your visitors to turn off
irritating. Pay particular audio and video or to adjust the
attention to text. Make sure the volume.
size of your text is readable and
It's tempting to jump right in
it stands out clearly from its and start building your website
background. Sticking with normal without much planning, but it is
black text on a white background more sensible to spend time
achieves the best results. Use a working things out on paper
first. Planning your website google_ad_height = 90;
design ahead of time will save
you time in the long run because google_ad_format =
you will minimize your "728x90_as";
mistakes.
google_ad_type = "text";
border-color: #FFFFFF;
background-color: #F5F7FB; google_color_border =
border-left: #BAC9FF 1px solid; "F5F7FB";
border-right: #BAC9FF 1px solid;
margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: google_color_bg = "F5F7FB";
10px;" valign="top"
align="center"> google_color_link =
"0000FF";
type="text/javascript">
"http://www.isnare.com/adsense-al
t-728x90.php"; type="text/javascript"
google_ad_width = 728;
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndica
tion.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
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