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Simple steps for High Quality Web Design A website's success depends on its design. This is also true for a poor looking design and a website's failure. Effective, appealing web design attracts and retains visitors. On the contrary, when web design lacks quality, visitors will leave without even reading the content. If you want to give your website the benefit of strong design practices, check out the following tips. Make sure the combination of colors your site uses is attractive and makes the site easy to read. You have to be certain that your text will be readable on top of the background colors you use. Using a dark text color on a lighter background is generally easier to read than the opposite. If you have doubts about your color scheme, run it by a few people and see what they think of it. Let visitors cancel actions if they want to. This could be anything from filling out forms to registering for email newsletters. You will inevitably lose repeat customers if you force them to follow through on a purchase that they have decided against for now. Allow users to cancel an action if they so choose. This could be a form that they have been filling out, registering for newsletters or emails, or even browsing the website for certain topics or archives. Visitors with second thoughts are not going to appreciate being locked into an action. They will feel that they are being forced to act against their wishes, and it will be unlikely that they will want to return to your site after such an experience. Pop-up windows are one feature you should avoid. You'll only annoy your visitors with this type of content, regardless of how important the information in the pop-up windows is. If your visitors become frustrated enough with pop-ups, they may permanently leave your website.

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Page 1: Simple steps for High Quality Web Design

Simple steps for High Quality Web Design

A website's success depends on its design. This is also true for a poor looking design and a

website's failure. Effective, appealing web design attracts and retains visitors. On the contrary,

when web design lacks quality, visitors will leave without even reading the content. If you want

to give your website the benefit of strong design practices, check out the following tips.

Make sure the combination of colors your site uses is attractive and makes the site easy to read.

You have to be certain that your text will be readable on top of the background colors you use.

Using a dark text color on a lighter background is generally easier to read than the opposite. If

you have doubts about your color scheme, run it by a few people and see what they think of it.

Let visitors cancel actions if they want to. This could be anything from filling out forms to

registering for email newsletters. You will inevitably lose repeat customers if you force them to

follow through on a purchase that they have decided against for now.

Allow users to cancel an action if they so choose. This could be a form that they have been

filling out, registering for newsletters or emails, or even browsing the website for certain topics or

archives. Visitors with second thoughts are not going to appreciate being locked into an action.

They will feel that they are being forced to act against their wishes, and it will be unlikely that

they will want to return to your site after such an experience.

Pop-up windows are one feature you should avoid. You'll only annoy your visitors with this type of

content, regardless of how important the information in the pop-up windows is. If your visitors

become frustrated enough with pop-ups, they may permanently leave your website.

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While it might free up some funds to use elsewhere on your site, hosting your own website is a

bad idea. You need to design your site on your own, but let another person host your site

because this can free up your time and let you put your focus on some other areas besides the

security and safety of your site.

Build a feedback-gathering mechanism into a website to gather visitors' opinions. That way, if

they are having a problem or there are missing items on your pages, you will be made aware

and can fix the problem. Involving your visitors in your website can help to bond them to your

brand and bring them back time and time again.

While development platforms are great for doing the job of creating your code, they are not

always able to be relied on for classic text editing. When you use a platform, in theory it will

provide workable code to produce the website features and appearance that you want. To

reduce errors, and for actual experience, try using a type of classic text editor.

Even though development platforms provide you with code, some are not nearly as trustworthy

as classic text editors. The concept behind development platforms is that once you choose your

site's features, you paste the code created by the platform into your website. But if you are

looking for a more hands-on experience where you can control everything, including fixing the

errors, then a basic text editor should be what you choose.

If you want to enhance your relationship with existing and potential customers, use the tips you

just read to help you design your website. Designing a user-friendly, attractive site helps drive

traffic to your doorstep. This can help you succeed online and financially. If you are planning to

build an online store website you might as well check this link: Ecommerce Web Site Design