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Marketing your Site (a series)
IV. "In Living Color": Web Visual Design
You don't need to be told about it again -- that a lot of supposed web "designers" break every rule of effective web page presentation. Web gurus note that most felonies occur in the area of Visual Design. These crimes are perpetrated by zealous designers eager to cram every existing visual element into a web page. The page then ends up looking like a car wreck-- ugly and useless.
Visual design is the first and last part of user interface. Graphic elements should be user-oriented, with page design geared to balance information management. That's simply combining aesthetics and practicality. Just give customers something nice to look at and easy to use. Visual content has to be part of the web site and not just the presentation medium. Give graphics certain jobs to do; they eat up a chunk of bandwidth anyway, might as well make them useful.
Speaking of bandwidth, avoid large graphics files-- downloading can become painfully slow and give customers a less-than-fun time on your site. But if you must have plenty of images, there is a better way of going about it. Thumbnails let you get away with having lots of photos and such, without making customers wait forever for your page to download. Plus, they allow site visitors to see the merchandise upfront. Another neat trick is to use animated GIFs to simulate movies. They're a better option than streaming video because they save on bandwidth and production money.
The goal of web page visual design is to enhance user experience. It should grab customers' attention and then present important information efficiently. It must never be a distraction. Remember, good design considers the end-user, not the designer's whims.
Reference:
Jakob Nielsen
www.useit.com
Holly Cunningham
www.builder.com
Link Up!
www.coolhomepages.com
An excellent site to visit, it even claims to be "the ultimate cure for designer's block." It could very well be just that, coolhomepages.com is a listing of innovative and just downright pretty web sites. The featured pages are grouped by category (clean, ultrahip, etc.) so you get precisely what you're looking for. Visitors even get a chance to submit and rate web sites. Check it out!
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The ArisHost site of the week:
www.gripclip.net
Here's to neat little gadgets! The GripClip is a new clip system for anything from cellular phones to MD players. This web site is a good example of how the Internet can be a great marketing tool. Businessmen out there might want to check it out. There's even a flash presentation that is unexpectedly refreshing, especially for a simple e-commerce site.
Last Words
The National Transportation Safety Board recently divulged a highly confidential plan they had funded with US auto makers for the past five years. The NTSB covertly funded a project whereby the auto makers installed black boxes in four wheel drive pick-up trucks in an effort to determine, in fatal accidents, the circumstances, 15 seconds before the crash.
They were surprised to find in 49 of the 50 states, the last words of drivers in 61.2% of fatal crashes were, "Oh, S**t!"
The 50th state, a southern one, gave totally different results. Just before they died, 89.3% of the fatalities' words were, "Hey Y'all, watch this!"
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I've seen some web sites where they let users "customize" the page by letting them tinker with the design and layout. I am actually tempted to do the same for my site. Can I have your opinion? Thanks. -- Jay L.
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