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What Does your website layout like?
Your website layout can break or make you in the online world. Your layout must be easy to navigate and look clean without a bunch of flashy things and animation.
These things probably are cool and all, but in reality with an online business, these things make your website look flashy and not professional. Most people today do not like this stuff and click away immediately when they see this.
Keeping your website layout easy to understand and follow links, is the best policy here. Remember there is a reason why so many websites today have their navigation links either across the top or on the left hand side. This is what people have accustom to, why re event the wheel, this things are there becasue that is what people expect and if your navigation is all over the place and confusing most people will leave your website and go to the next one which just might be easier for them to get around on.
Keep your links the standard blue color, and don’t make text on your site blue if it is not a link. People are use to this as well. Blue colored text and underlined means a clickable link.
Another thing I have seen which is just not good website layout, is having your background color a dark color and keeping your text a grey color or dark like this. It is very very difficult to read this kind of colors together. It is standard and expected to have a white background with the black text, it is much easier on your readers eyes and makes your message stand out better.
When it comes to your layout, plan carefully on what your website should do. Make sure if you are only collecting email addresses and names, that there are NO other links on your site, this disctracts your visitors from doing what you want them to do.
If you are selling a product on your site, make sure that is all there is on there, don’t ask them to opt in for a newsletter or something on that sales page, you can ask them for their information on the backend after they’ve made a purchase. Keep things simple and easy for visitors to understand exactly what you want them to do and why.
These are just a few tips you should think through carefully before building your website, it will make things much easier for you in the long run.
Take care,
Laura
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4 Simple Steps To Follow to Build a Website
The one thing I see more and more is the lack of
knowledge someone has when they want to build a
website. They think they can just jump right in
never realizing the steps that must be taken before
they build their website.
One of the first things you should do is learn. Remember
knowledge is power! Learning the proper steps
in the proper order will save you a lot of time
and money
Before you get started with building your website,
put a plan together of what you’d like your website
to do. Put together a list of tools you will need
to build your website. It might surprise a lot of
you to realize that it isn’t as expensive as you
might think.
It may surprise you and a lot of others to realize
all they really need to get started at learning HTML
is to type in some code into Notepad or Wordpad and
then save it as an HTML document instead of text.
Here are 4 simple to follow steps when you start to
build your website:
1. What the Cost will be. The most expensive
cost you will incounter is the domain name registration
and your hosting, if you are doing it yourself. If you
choose to outsource the job, then you are talking about
a lot of money.
2. Time- this is another factor to consider, is
your time to learn and implement what you learn. Some people
no matter how hard they try, they just don’t get how to
build a website. This is fine, find someone who can help
you. Be careful, as a lot of webmasters out there are not
marketers and it will be difficult for you to communicate
what your needs are.
3. The Tools you’ll need – I’ve heard and read alot
online about the expensive of tools to build a website. this
just isn’t true at all. Depending on what your website will
do depends on your tool needs. Most to all of the tools you
will need to build a website, are completely free online.
4. Knowledge – The one thing I find a lot people doing
is not taking the time to learn the simplest of coding that
is needed to put up a simple website. You do not have to have
a website that is fancy with lots of graphics and banners, this
in fact is not very professional anymore. Most people see these
websites as hype and will leave faster than they arrived.
Make a good solid plan of what your website will do and it’s purpose
it won’t take you very long to put up a website if you have
the proper knowledge and tools.
To get more information and detailed steps to follow visit our website
at http://www.laurasbasicstowebdesign.com we have a great deal of
information and ideas from the newbie to the experienced.
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