Neat and Easy Navigation: the navigation of links on your site plays a big role in determining how long your visitors stay and explore your site. They don’t want to sit there trying to figure out how and where to go to get what they want. Ask yourself this; what do visitors see as soon as they open your site? They will see any images on the site and then move on to read the content of the present page and then look around to find any other page titles of interest.
Clean Layout Design: A clean layout that uses a lot of solid colors enhances a site’s appearance. Keep away from using a lot of dark colors or a black background with blue or red letters. While they may look good to you, there are many visitors that won’t be able to read the text due to poor monitor function, color blindness or bad eyesight. Depending on what you the purpose of your site is you will want to carefully set it up to highlight that information. A template is perfect for this issue. The use font is another important decision. You will want the content readable. There are many choices available and you will want to be consistent in your choices. Change can be distracting to the end user.
Animation: Using allot of animation may be fun and cool to play with, but it can be distracting and even upsetting to many users. It takes the user’s eye from your content.
Optimum Load Time: Make sure your load time is low by minimizing graphics, flash and scripts as they hugely increase your file size creating a slow load time.
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Mark Carpenter
Celtic Myth Podshow
