I reviewed basic concepts of website design for a small Chamber of Commerce networking group.
Here are 14 tips which I recommend for business website design:
- Get your users‘ attention in 3 seconds or less per page
- Make your web design responsive for all screens
- Have white space around and within your design for easier reading and focus
- Use easy to understand action words
- Link to other sites
- Track your site‘s performance
- Break out sections of your copy into bullets
- Explain how you can provide solutions
- Feature your products and services
- Use original professional photography — overviewed stock can degrade your brand
- Make a connection with the user
- Headings should be relevant to your customer‘s searchable items
- Headings are picked up more than content by search engines
- For a coherent theme throughout your website and all of your marketing pieces, use consistency in heading sizes, font choices, color schemes, spacing, design elements, illustration and photography styles
Design is a means toward accomplishing the end goals of serving markets and generating profits. Furthermore, design is an element in social responsibility.
Thomas F. Shute, Former President, RISD and Pratt Institute
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