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Can Website Usability Hurt your Business?

Research has shown that your website usability many times will affect how well you do with sales and keeping customers coming back.

Most people think that putting up a website and adding a few different things will make them a success. It does not work that way. In fact, the usability of your website can make or break your business and there is no doubt about that.

No one wants to try and find their way around a site that is hard to find things. Most people will disappear and never come back. Follow some of these tips listed below and you should see better increased conversion results from your traffic. Read the rest of this entry »

Do you put together a plan for your website?

- by Timothy Caron

Hey Guy’s and Gal’s

In this article I would like to talk about “Planning Your Website.”

Many times we overlook the aspect of planning, especially if we are new to the internet. And when we fail to plan, it usually ends up with little or no success for our hard work.

When we design our own websites, we sometimes forget to take into consideration this most important step, of laying the foundation, that will offer our visitors and future customers an easy to use, and enjoyable experience. Read the rest of this entry »

The Importance of a Sitemap

A sitemap is often considered redundant in the process of building a website, and that is indeed the fact if you made a sitemap for the sake of having one. By highlighting the importance of having a well constructed sitemap, you will be able to tailor your own sitemap to suit your own needs.

1) Navigation purposes

A sitemap literally acts as a map of your site. If your visitors browses your site and gets lost between the thousands of pages on your site, they can always refer to your sitemap to see where they are, and navigate through your pages with the utmost ease.

2) Conveying your site’s theme

When your visitors load up your sitemap, they will get the gist of your site within a very short amount of time. There is no need to get the “big picture” of your site by reading through each page, and by doing that you will be saving your visitors’ time.

3) Site optimization purposes

When you create a sitemap, you are actually creating a single page which contains links to every single page on your site. Imagine what happens when search engine robots hit this page — they will follow the links on the sitemap and naturally every single page of your site gets indexed by search engines! It is also for this purpose that a link to the sitemap has to be placed prominently on the front page of your website.

4) Organization and relevance

A sitemap enables you to have a complete bird’s eye view of your site structure, and whenever you need to add new content or new sections, you will be able to take the existing hierarchy into consideration just by glancing at the sitemap. As a result, you will have a perfectly organized site with everything sorted according to their relevance.

From the above reasons, it is most important to implement a sitemap for website projects with a considerable size. Through this way, you will be able to keep your website easily accessibility and neatly organized for everyone.

Until next time, have a wonderful day.

The Key to Better Websites [A] Navigation

Introduction
Importance of the latter :

One of the primary implications of a well-organized / good website, is to keep your visitors in the website. A website is definitely created for a purpose, unless intended for personal use, which is the minority. For example, a portfolio website would want to be visited and it’s content viewed. For companies and internet businesses, your website certainly aims to provide product information, to make sales, or somewhat similar. However, most individuals undoubtly prefer visually captivating designs, so on and so forth. It is undeniable that this causes no harm, but one must put himself/herself in other people’s shoes, as to understand how a visitor to the website might think, do and react. Read the rest of this entry »

5 Important Rules in Website Design

When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose. Here are seven important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.

1) Do not use splash pages

Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like “welcome” or “click here to enter”. In fact, they are just that — pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the “back” button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page.

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