What Makes a Good Website?
A well formulated website should have the qualities like identified goals, compelling content, easy navigation feature and attractively designed. With these features you will be able to draw the attention of your customers into your website easily.
A Good Website meet up Clearly Identified Goals
Before starting first of all fix up your goals. You should clearly identify your achievements through your website. Choose your target audience who has the same interest as you. Whether the site is based around selling memberships, or just general ad-based content - the design should accommodate most effectively to the purpose. It will help you to produce a focused organized website.
A Good Website is Easy to Navigate
Customer will enjoy if they found your website clean, clear and easy to navigate. If your customers could not find what they are looking for they will leave your website within a second.
Every pages of your website should be interlinked together. With these set of links between your various pages customer will easily find to navigate through your website and save valuable time. You should plan carefully for formulation the structure of the site before creating it.
Visual Attractiveness of a Site
Your site should be visually attractive to grab the attention of the customers. Your website should have eye catching, clean and simple design following basic design principles. Use images and design as a vehicle to achieve the goals you set out for your website.
Don’t increase the size of your website by putting unnecessary elements like throwing music, little animations or scrolling text without any real reason. This does not make a good looking site.
Design and Layout
Design and layout is very much important for creating good looking website. In this regard the following basic principles should be kept in mind:-
- Make a reliable visual theme
- Page elements should be properly aligned
- Image and text color should be bright and contrasting
- Group elements together for easy availability of the presented information
- Use different text size and weight for creating good contrast which will add interest to your website page.
- Give some rendering effect to your text as it will make your text attracting to view
- Always avoid textured backgrounds that make text hard to read
- All images should be used intelligently and every image should have alt attribution (display text or title in a image). Try to give proper link in images. Always try to use image with .gif extension as these kinds of images will decrease the file size rather than JPEG images. Besides text will "render" or display more clearly with GIF images.
Consistent visual theme
Your visual theme should be created with a consistent set of colors and images which will grasp the attention of the people and makes an impression in people’s minds and imaginations. Choose a combination of consistent colors which will be used throughout the website. The color theme also needs to connect with the visitors and the purpose of the site. For color display try to set your computer to 216 bit colors as these are called browser safe colors and they are able to keep the colors intact while displaying in all browsers.
Contrast is immensely important. Page content and navigation must be correctly contrasted. The foreground text needs to either be very dark, or very light in comparison with the background color
Align Elements on the Page
Don’t put elements and text on the page in a disorganized way. Carefully align elements on the page to create interest and visual appeal.
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