You will need to carefully plan and consider exactly what you wish to achieve when you are creating a website. Once you have determined what you wish to achieve, you can begin to plan how you wish to achieve your goals. There are a number of graphic tools that you can use to help you create a website.
Graphic Design Software
Adobe Dreamweaver is an outstanding website design software program that enables you to create an endless range of design approaches and styles. Adobe Photoshop lets you create and edit images for the web and is simple and easy to use.
Web Building
When you create your website, or pay to have someone build it for you, you must ensure that your website loads very quickly. This is extremely important because a fast loading website can literally translate into profit. People ‘trust’ a fast loading website and view it as a high quality online source. Users are less likely to navigate away if your website loads very quickly.
More text and less graphics works very well. If it takes longer than 5 seconds to load your site, you will loose half of your potential traffic. Many people have slow Internet connections so one way to cater for this is to ask your web building to stagger the loading speed. The text should load first and the user can begin to read this while images load separately – compression files work well for this type of approach.
Target Your Audience With Colour
Colour can work on a subconscious level and it can strongly influence your audience to act. People associate many different concepts with specific colours, however, it is important to really connect your colour scheme with your target audience. If you go overboard with coloured backgrounds you may make your text harder to read.
To Banner Or Not To Banner
In the past five years, flash banners have be become more and more prevalent online. They certainly do grab the users attention and it is a good way to provide a concise summary of your core business strengths to the user. Sometimes banners can look a little bit cheap and tacky, depending on how they have been designed. A poorly built banner will take forever to load and the user may become frustrated with this and navigate away from your website.
Good Content
Good content is essential. You want to inform, interest and entertain your user and provide them with lots of information without overwhelming them with an oversupply of content. Your website should include links to useful information and articles so that your user can gain further information if they so choose.
