Web design

Professional web design has in recent years is crucial. A few years ago it was estimated that a visitor to a website took about 8 seconds to decide to remain on the site or click the back button. That was then, this is now: Your site is only about 4 seconds to make an impression on the visitors. This is not much time! Today people want instant results. Few people wait until the entire web design before they see their decision. If your web design does not grab their attention immediately, they will not stick. And if your site does not offer anything of value, they will not bookmark it and they will not come back (more on that later).

So, in this sense, let us discuss some practical ways to grab the attention of website visitors. Then, in a future article we will talk a little about keeping their attention with good site content. Remember that people spend most of the time to read on the web. Show results, news, tutorials, articles and forums. A professional web design company will take this into account. But that’s for later. First, we have to keep visitors attention (remember the 4-second rule).

To the point.
We live in a fast-paced society and we are used to immediate results: Microwave meals in 5 minutes, lose 5 pounds in 5 days, 30 minutes oil change, see, results of fitness equipment in 20 minutes a day, and on and on.

The Internet is no different and it may actually less forgiving of sites that do not deliver results fast.

The 4-second rule, which means we do not talk about the past that your entire web page must be loaded in 4 seconds. It means that a visitor to your site to at least see something interesting in the 4 second window. So, test your site while it loads, ask yourself:

* How much time passes before I see anything?
* What is the first thing I see on the web page?
* How much time passes before I read a text?
* How long would it take to determine a visitor, which is the Web site?

Try the proposal itself, and then try to win the support of some of your friends. The more people you test on your site, the more thorough the result.

Ideally, the page should set up top to bottom and from left to right. However, your design should correspond to the reading habits of your target audience. Some countries read from right to left, so sure that you know your audience. In addition, the most striking elements loaded first. Once that burden, they grab the attention of the visitor. Then the rest of the page completely loaded.

What graphics format should I use?
This is probably one of the most overlooked aspects of web design. How many times have you visited a website and shuddered at the slow loading images. I bet you have not seen anything stick load.

In most cases, Web sites that have this problem from someone who bought an established web design How-To book, created a Web page that says “Hello World” and now think she is an expert. Or maybe they are learning web design, having this slow loading site as a favor for a friend or family member. In any case hiring a professional web design company bad design does not happen to prevent you. In the meantime, here are some very basic guidelines to be made for this very important website graphics:

More on the JPG file format.:
. JPG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) format images up to 16 million colors. It also supports variable compression, which you can reduce the size of the image at the expense of some details. To use the full benefits of this feature, you need a graphics program that allows you to preview the image after you have compressed it. Some of the most popular graphics programs are Photoshop, Fireworks and Corel Draw.

JPG is not a good format for images with few colors, or text created as images. The final image will be of poor quality.

More about the GIF file format.:
. GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) support up to 256 colors. It also supports “transparency” that you specify on the background of the image to be invisible, so that they can overshadow the web page colors.

Graphics in this format are also called “looseless”, ie not the final quality adversly affected by compression.

Boiling it Down.
For the most part, this is a good way to determine which format you should use the graphics on your site:

* If your video many colors (such as a photo) to use. JPG format, but make sure that the file size is not so large that it is the web page to load quickly prevented. Find a good balance between image quality and file size.
* If your display only a few colors (such as a chart) to use. GIF format.

Of course, this somewhat simplifies the vital role of graphics in your website design. If you hire a professional web design company to create your Web presence, he or she follow these guidelines during the design process. They should ensure that the designs that you adhered to by the designer with a good design standards.

Make Them want more.
Of course, no matter how good your website is organized and how effective it is in grabbing the attention of the visitor, they have to look at your site as important. You must stay with them the reasons and search your site to your site bookmark so that they can find it again and tell others about your site, so you can build new visitors.
We will examine how to address this aspect of quality website design in an upcoming article. This article is in three main ways to improve the spectators to:

1. Offer something of value
1. Newsletter
2. Free tips
3. Monthly Coupons

2. Good, quality marketing copy
1. Put effort in the words of your site.
2. ‘The Internet has made remembering from web pages and for the most part, pages should be read.

3. Easy-to-use web site navigation.

1. If visitors can not get around easily on your website, they will not stay very long.