Saturday, October 12, 2013

4 Common Web Design Mistakes that a Small Business Must Avoid


When it comes to design a perfect website, there are several things that a small business winner needs to keep in mind besides merely choosing a perfect domain name and a set of few high-quality pictures. Companies need to focus on providing key information about their business to the audience reaching to their website. Moreover, there are several common mistakes that a business must avoid in order to create a website that can ensure the intended business results.  

Today, any web design company would accept that just creating a website may not meet all the needs of a business. This is the reason why web design companies strive to build a website that has appealing looks as well as the desired functional features. A small business needs to take care of their consumers online, and their website must showcase creativity, has cutter-free user interface, allows user to search information and content simply and also has an easy navigation feature. 

However, here are those common mistakes that businesses must avoid in order to build a successful website bringing them the desired results. 

1. Avoid Complexity, Keep it Simple

Don’t overstuff your site with technical features and high-resolution creative elements. Your website should load faster giving a user smooth browsing experience. If your site will take too long to load, a website visitor may prefer to visit another website that is faster than yours. Better, if you can keep it simple and strive for a better user experience when they will visit your website. 

2. Simple & Convincing Message 

If you believe on a research, you get just three seconds to convince your visitors who come to your web page. Thus, before your visitors quit your web page, you must have all desired content, images etc that can allow you to communicate your message effectively. You must focus on the quality of your content. You should put relevant text and supportive images so that it can create a positive impression about your business and brand. You should avoid repeating the mistake of putting excessive content that most other businesses do. By putting lots of description, you may distract the visitors or may rather confuse them, if you fail to present a clear-cut message about your products or services. Your content should have an easy flow that must be comprehensible to the visitors. 

3. Stand Away from the Crowd 

It’s sensible to study and learn from your competitor’s websites. But it may be suicidal to copy your competitors. You need to stand apart from the others and need to create your own reputation in the online world. You need to think creatively and need to choose your design elements, functional features, message etc that can represent your business in a unique manner on the online world. By maintaining your uniqueness, you will be able to draw the attention of your targeted customers. 

4. You Need to Promote Your Website

Once you build your website, don’t just sit idle and keep waiting for the traffic. It’s like you have opened a store and waiting for the customers. But you need to advertise to create awareness about your store and bring in customers. In the same manner, you need to have a promotional strategy to popularize your site online and draw traffic. You can have several ways to promote your website. For example, you can promote your website on popular social networks such Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn etc. 

You may also create your own blog and start your content marketing campaign. You may also go to other blogs and forums to post your comment and leave your website links so that users can follow those links to reach your site. However, promotion of a website is an ongoing process and one should not expect the results overnight. You can also send your e-mailers and newsletters to spread the message and bring in more traffic to your website. You can also explore traffic-sharing opportunities with the sites in your niche and which have relevant content on these sites.  

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