8 Simple Design Tips That Work Wonders on Your Website

Since 1999 we’ve been working with our clients to strengthen brands, grow mailing lists, and create Web sites that are creative, unique, and effective. You can make your Web site more welcoming to your visitors by making some adjustments to your site.

1. Make your Web site easy to navigate: Try organizing your Web site with tabs rather than placing content where ever you see it might fit. Visitors enjoy not having to spend 20 minutes searching for something that could easily have been made more noticeable. A “Contact Us” Tab with an email or phone number should always be displayed.
2. Include a menu on every page: While you should always provide a menu on every Web page you have published, make sure your navigation links are always on the very top of your pages. If you have an extremely long Web page, placing a navigational bar on the bottom of the page makes it convenient for your reader not to have to scroll to the very top to visit another page.
3. Minimize content: Ever go to a website and wonder when they will just get to the point? Leave unnecessary content for another Web site and keep your Web page as informational and to the point as possible. Readers appreciate that.
4. Refrain from using all CAPITOL LETTERS: Words that are displayed in ALL CAPS draw your reader’s attention more so then if they were small. If you place everything in all caps, then you completely lose the effect of catching your reader’s eye when you are trying to stress an important point.
5. Spell check works! No, really, try it and you will really be amazed. I cannot stress enough how important spelling is.
6. Test your links: Before making your Web page live make sure that the links you are sharing are clickable and link to the site you intended. Occasionally, the links you have previously posted may change, so check your content regularly and make updates as needed.
7. Organize, Organize, Organize! Readers usually have a short attention span, so it’s vital that you get their interest from the very second they land on your welcome page. Make your Web site as organized and neat as possible; no one likes a cluttered page.
8. Keep animation and sounds optional: I’m sure we’ve all come across a Web site that played music when the Web page loaded, and I’m fairly positive our speakers were set to max volume at that very moment. If you are going to play sounds upon arrival, make sure to have the off button immediately visible to the naked eye.