- Despite not being exactly relevant to the idea of web design, the first and foremost tip proves to be far more significant than design itself in the long run. While many try to learn the tricks of web design they tend to think that it will help them to convert useless set of pages into pretty entities, since most are misled into thinking that style instead of content forms the core of the business. However, they all must spare a minute to contemplate and realize the fact that basically the existence of a web page is only to provide the users or the visitors with something that is useful or attention grabbing. But then, if a page fails to accomplish this task, then it becomes far more important to get that problem right instead of worrying about the style of presenting it. Hence at the very onset, one must actually try to address questions such as what is being actually offered to a visitor to the site or is it really worth anyone’s time to pay a visit to a particular site. Until and unless they are cleared there is hardly any point in progressing or planning about the look or appearance of the web site.
- Avoiding any kind of sleazy elements has to be the next important lesson in the course of web designing. One has to admit that most of the web users across the globe find features like animation and the so called creative use of sounds to be extremely disturbing. Most tend to complain or grumble about the fact that it is next to impossible to focus on reading the content given on a particular web site when there are numerous other elements moving all around the web page. According to these annoyed users, the whole thing is ridiculously like trying to go through a newspaper peacefully while a menace is continuously poking on the shoulder again and again. Moreover, the visitors who are using slower connections often dislike the idea of simply wasting time by loading animations and sound files which are of absolutely no use. Although one may tend to think that people will get attracted to an animated advertisement, but in fact it is just the reverse. Readers feeling battered by these ads are most likely to go away from the site right away without any clicks or anything, and are even far less expected to do any kind of bookmarking on the site with any intention of returning or even recommending it to others. Thus studies often reveal that an animated banner ad can even be less effective than a stationary ad on a web page.
Published November 10, 2009 | 