One of the main reasons to having a well-designed website is
to ensure your customers can find you online and your website serves the purpose
of catering to your customer when they want. But what if you have a potential
customer? For businesses potential customers are more important than the
regular customers because that is like an opportunity comes knocking your way,
instead of you going to find one.
When a visitor shows up on your website, you usually have
between 3-5 seconds to convince the user, that they are at the right place and
whatever they are looking for, they will get it right here. Be it information,
making a transaction or just contacting you. Within these few seconds you have
the window to make your sales pitch, and the only way to do that is by having
the right information, in the right place, making sure your website is
user-friendly and engaging. That seems like a lot to process, so let’s just
focus on the current web design trends, to make sure you are ahead of the game
for your next website redesign project.
Design for Mobile
View
This is really important considering that the number of
smartphone and tablet users is increasing quickly beyond imagination. Besides, Google
is penalizing websites that are not responsive (which basically means modifying
the view for the device). So if you have not yet revamped your website and it
shows up like a disaster on a mobile phone, this is the right time to go ahead launch
a new designed website.
No Call to Actions?
This is a major blunder! Your website must have something to
engage a visitor. Even if it’s just information; making sure that they can
easily share that information with other people on their social network would
work miracles for you. On the other hand
if they can buy something of your website or even you are trying to get their
contact details, you highlight the area so they know what they need to do. Strategically
placing social network plugins can make your website go viral too.
Don’t forget the
build
Having a good design of your website is not enough. You must
look into web development as well. Make sure when you hire a web development company
they are using the latest web development trends.
Enough with the
Clutter
Having too much information, is not a good thing. Simplicity
is gold; don’t forget you want to make maximum use of your page space without
using the space. Do not clog your consumers mind, with too much information
break it down, and show only what is important.