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Online Business Website Building Tips
and Resources
Website Designing Tips: Do’s and
Don’ts
Have you ever visited an online store or
sales page that made you wonder what the
heck were they thinking when they designed
it? Or you felt it was cheap, ugly, and hard
to navigate? And have you have ever visited
a web site where the navigation was simple
and the graphics and design were
professional and polished looking? Now, if
you could compare an ugly site and a
professional and polished-looking site side
by side, which site would you buy from if
both offered the same exact product for the
same exact price? Which site would you trust
more? The answer most likely would be the
professional and polished-looking website.
Make Your Website Polished and
Professional Looking
Now you don’t necessarily need to go out and
hire an expensive web designer to create a
piece of artwork, but it does help to have a
well-designed website versus an ugly and
homely-looking website.
Website Design Do’s
1. Create an easy-to-navigate web site so
your visitors can find what they are looking
for
2. Create clean, professional, and sharp
website graphics
3. Provide a site map
4. Provide a contact e-mail address or
customer service help desk number
5. Provide a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
page
6. Have minimal advertisements
7. Use a font color that is not annoying but
matches the flow of your website.
8. Provide a professional and well-written
About Us page
9. Use a standard font like Arial or Verdana
10. Keep “special effects” like flash
graphics to a minimum
Website Design Don’ts
1. Bright font colors
2. Hard-to-navigate website
3. Banner ads plastered everywhere so your
site resembles Las Vegas
4. Loud music playing automatically when a
visitor enters your website
5. Super HUGE LOGO
6. Trailing mouse cursor
7. Bright blue website background
8. Text in the background
9. Jumbled fonts, a confusing mismatched
hodge podge
10. An About Us page that tells your whole
life story. You’re trying to sell from your
online store, not sell your life story. Be
professional.
11. Affiliate banner ads that have nothing
to do with the theme of your website
12. Blurry and unprofessional-looking
graphics and photos
13. Banners for web rings on your main page
14. A “vote for my website” graphic.
We could go on and on about bad web design,
but we won’t. Just so long as your website
doesn’t look like Las Vegas, the design
should pass the test. Remember, you don’t
have to get super fancy, just keep it simple
and professional looking, and you’ll do
great!
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