Friday, October 21, 2005

E-Commerce based web designs

Some Tips to design an E-commerce web site.

Old saying is there, "First Impression is last Impression" . Simply follow these steps to have successfully E-commerce web design.

1. Use Strong Head lines, Titles to capture visitors attention. A first time visitor will not spend more than a few seconds on the website.

2. Use pastel shades, avoid too many fonts, backgrounds, be specific about what you are offering to the visitors. Have ample amount of white space. Do not clutter your homepage.

3. Make sure the site loads quickly on a Dial Up connection also. Avoid huge graphics and too many background images. Use a little Typography to replace heavy graphics.

4. Make sure your offer is clear on the welcome page. Use simple language for any lay man to understand it quickly, avoid technical jargon and unwanted syntax.

5. User should get what he is looking for in less than 2 clicks on your website.

6. Whether you are offering services or selling products, make sure you cover all aspects related to your offerings. A past business history or testimonials helps a lot for a visitor to be convinced.

7. If your site has lots of content to offer, break it down into respective sections, this will enhance user navigation and information architecture across the website.

8. Before uploading your website live, Validate your HTML thoroughly to make sure there are no dead links.

There is a lot more which goes into building of an ecommerce based website.

Hope these tips helps
Enjoy Designing your ecommerce website.


Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Guide to download a page real quick

Waiting for a site to download is the worse experience a user faces.
Home page of a web site needs to be very light in terms of graphics.In the event of a page not getting downloaded real quick, visitors tend leave your website.Here are some simple methods of why speed of download is important.
- The first part is visitors wants to get there information quickly. No one has the time to wait and watch web site getting downloaded.- Second part is we should deliver the content very quickly so that we can keep them hooked to our web site. So the important content needs to be organized at the top of the page.
- A user should not take more then 3 clicks to reach his desired content on the web site.

To achieve a better optimized web site by loading it real quick one needs to follow these simple steps.

- Avoid using graphics, try and use maximum of text and use your typography skills to make it look attractive enough to the visitors.
- Do not use flash on the main page, specially those never ending flash intro’s which takes its own sweet time to load followed by HTML content. Absence of flash plug-in may result in losing a lot of potential visitors.
- Use multiple tables instead of nesting everything in one table.
- Differentiate images into GIF and JPEG depending upon there colors.
- Use maximum of CSS, which gives a cleaner HTML code.