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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