How to Create Good Web Design

Good Website Design

Though several aspects of website design different from site to site, many things remain the same throughout the most of websites on the internet. Most notably is the navigation or menu. The best way in which a website's menu works and appears is very important, as ultimately, viewers to a website are looking for exact criteria that will make them either stay and interact or leave. This capability for a website to keep visitors interested is sometimes referred to as stickiness. Visitors want an attractive visually exciting experience, but perhaps more importantly, they want 'ease of use'. Website usability is a key factor for websites that want their visitors to stick around, make an inquiry and ultimately complete a transaction and order a product or service.

Easy to Use Web Design

Internet users tend to prefer easy to use websites because they do not want to have to learn how to use a website every time they find a new one. They should be able to use a website after only a few seconds of looking around a homepage, any more and they will leave and browse elsewhere. The need for fast user interaction is vital and therefore having a fast loading website is also important for a website to succeed. Even with faster internet connections such as broadband, internet users don't want to wait around.

Just imagine, if you go to a shop on the high street and are totally ignored by shop assistants at the counter for 5 minutes, even after you have made it clear you want help. There is a correlation here to how an internet user may feel when they arrive at a website that has been poorly designed, is difficult to use, unfriendly and slow to load. Making sure that a website has been well thought out and designed with the user in mind, displays a company's unique selling points within easily recognizable eye-catching calls for action and has a clear, easy to use menu is key to its success.

Good Web Design Layout

A lot of time and money is spent making sure that the right elements of websites are positioned in the right places. Companies spend big amounts of cash conducting research into how internet users use their websites. This kind of research shows where their visitors' eyes concentrate the most, which factors of the website they click on first and generally how they interact and use their websites. Most internet users will seem specially from the top left either across the page or down the left-hand side of the web page through an internet browser via a computer, mobile phone or TV set.

I would hazard a guess, that they are looking for the company's name or logo, their main selling points or slogans and then what the website has to offer in terms of what is featured in the menu. After which their eyes are probably drawn to the page content and over to the right-hand side. Successful web design usually takes this into consideration and will ultimately affect the way a website looks.

So, always remember that you are hiring a web design company and are paying for its services and this is the reason why you should be concerned about its professional qualities.