Work at Home Moms

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. Trailing mouse cursor

6. Bright blue website background

7. Text in the background

8. Jumbled fonts, a confusing mismatched hodge podge

9. 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.

10. Affiliate banner ads that have nothing to do with the theme of your website

11. Blurry and unprofessional-looking graphics and photos

12. Banners for web rings on your main page

13. 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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