Your website layout plays an important role to attract more visitors to your website. A good layout is something that addresses the customer’s needs effectively, pleases search engine crawlers and is designed in compliance with the latest trends of the business.
To design a user & search engine friendly web layout, avoid use of rustic colors, clumsy navigation, overstuffed links and heavy images. Here are a few basic guidelines that can help in coming up with a neat and clean layout.
Give Ample Room To White Space
Don’t flood your audiences with too much information or images. Skip those flashing graphics and try using lots of white space so that the website appears neat and clean. Don’t use long stories and content to convey information about your products and services. Web visitors hate reading!
Avoid Using Heavy Files/graphics
Don’t upload large files and graphics on your web pages since it would increase downloading time of the pages manifold and your potential client might get irritated. Also, it must be kept in mind that visitors will see your website in multiple screen resolutions so the images used must be eye catching as well as optimized in terms of resolution and size.
Color Combination
The color combination and images used in your website should be refreshingly new as that would make them feel intrigued to browse through the multiple pages of your site. Go for the color combination that adequately conveys your brand message and looks aesthetically pleasing.
Easy Navigation
The navigation menu should be consistent throughout all pages of your website and the links must be properly positioned to avoid ambiguity and that the users find the links easily and navigate through the pages of your website.
Readable Fonts
Choose simple fonts that can easily be deciphered by your potential customers. Be consistent with your font type and font size as it makes the content readable for the target audiences.
Follow Consistency
Be consistent with everything on the web pages ranging from font size & type to navigation menus, size of headings. Ensure that all pages of your website have the consistent look-n-feel. The primary design element must be same throughout all the web pages.
Designing / redesigning a website layout is certainly not an easy task but an extremely important one if you want to be successful on the World Wide Web. We hope that you liked our post and welcome your feedback and insights on the same.
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