any web design
professionals tend to Many sites are built with a front
forget that not every door mentality. In this scenario
visitor will enter through the the home page is expected to be
front door. There are millions of the landing pad for all visitors.
site pages that are effectively a In truth, search engines rank all
dead end. These pages may have site pages making it possible for
content, but absolutely no links a visitor to come into your site
to send the visitor back to the through a page other than the
home page nor does the page home page. Sure, you’re happy
provide a clue as to the purpose they came, but you have to give
and function of the website. them a map to your site so they
can really find what they need.
If a site visitor finds a link to In many cases this is done with a
your website through a search site map or common navigation
engine and lands on a page links on all pages.
without navigation capabilities
it is likely your site will be Another common web design faux
abandoned as they search for pas is to burden your pages with
something more ‘complete’. high-resolution images and data.
Most visitors will give your web
It is important that each page on page one-tenth of a second to
your website feature a means of begin downloading - if it takes
determining what your site is too long to download the site
for, what you offer and how to visitor will likely move on.
get from one place to the next.
If you have pages that are dead There have been numerous sites I
ends the chances diminish that have visited that insist on
your site will be as useful to placing midi music on each web
customers as you want it to be. page. This ‘gift’ increases
download time and can be rather distraction is the lengthy
annoying if you happen to be download times these pages
listening to other desired online require.
media.
The rule of thumb is to make
I know the intent is to provide every page navigable and quickly
something unique for the site downloadable. These elements of
visitor, but as more audio is web design can make an incredible
streamed over the Internet, the difference in the usability of
less interested we become in your web site.
self-loading audio. The primary
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