Making Your Custom Website More User-Friendly
Over the years
here at Hazel Digital Media, we've refined our design process,
infusing cutting edge technology, allowing every custom design
website to have its own unique aesthetic, but each with the same easy
accessibility and readability. If you are considering building or
improving your website, here are some fundamental ideas to keep in
mind, which you'll find at work throughout our portfolio.
Navigability
This
principle is first and foremost for a user-friendly website design.
You want to have big buttons at the top of each page that make it
easy for anyone to know where they are, and where they need to go.
Each
page should have a simple, direct title, so that potential customers
can find the information they need immediately. If you lose their
attention span, most surfers are just going to look somewhere else.
Furthermore,
you should always have your logo in the top left corner, which takes
you back to the home page upon clicking. Nothing is more frustrating
than getting lost or stuck in someone's website, and having to
backtrack.
User-Friendly Call-To-Action
In a lot of ways, your website is like a living brochure for your business, but it can also be
your store front as well. The website that is most user-friendly is
one that engages viewers, and takes them on a journey through the
site.
You want to
structure your content so that people will eventually browse their
way to that magical call-to-action at the end.
Contact Information
You'll have to
decide exactly what your call-to-action looks like, whether it's a
download, a link to a document, or most likely: the contact page.
Whatever your goal, it's a good idea to have some form of contact on every page. We typically recommend including it in the
footer at the bottom of each page, providing phone numbers, emails,
everything. This ensures that you are always easily-reachable.
Accessible From Every Device
It goes without
saying that a user-friendly website needs to be mobile-friendly as
well. In another post, we discussed the difference between a mobile site and a responsive site.
When you create a
custom designed website with responsive technology, you are
guaranteeing easy navigability, no matter the device. In terms of
user-friendliness, responsive website technology is practically essential.
Images
The joy of the
internet is that it's an interactive, multimedia experience. Images
can go a long way toward maintaining attention and involvement, as
well as providing instant information. A good website always has just
the right amount of images and icons, which should be both beautiful
and professional.
You'll also want
to think about this in terms of your overall aesthetic. A website is
much more fun to peruse when it's pretty.
Whether you're
considering a brand new custom design website, or maybe just upgrades
to your old one, Hazel Digital Media is here to help. All of our
websites combine aesthetic with functionality.
Take a look at our portfolio to see some of the user-friendly websites we've already
created.
Or, feel free to Contact Us today with questions or comments. We'd love to hear from
you.
Over the years here at Hazel Digital Media, we've refined our design process, infusing cutting edge technology, allowing every custom design website to have its own unique aesthetic, but each with the same easy accessibility and readability. If you are considering building or improving your website, here are some fundamental ideas to keep in mind, which you'll find at work throughout our portfolio.
Navigability
This principle is first and foremost for a user-friendly website design. You want to have big buttons at the top of each page that make it easy for anyone to know where they are, and where they need to go.
Each page should have a simple, direct title, so that potential customers can find the information they need immediately. If you lose their attention span, most surfers are just going to look somewhere else.
Furthermore, you should always have your logo in the top left corner, which takes you back to the home page upon clicking. Nothing is more frustrating than getting lost or stuck in someone's website, and having to backtrack.
User-Friendly Call-To-Action
In a lot of ways, your website is like a living brochure for your business, but it can also be your store front as well. The website that is most user-friendly is one that engages viewers, and takes them on a journey through the site.
You want to structure your content so that people will eventually browse their way to that magical call-to-action at the end.
Contact Information
You'll have to decide exactly what your call-to-action looks like, whether it's a download, a link to a document, or most likely: the contact page. Whatever your goal, it's a good idea to have some form of contact on every page. We typically recommend including it in the footer at the bottom of each page, providing phone numbers, emails, everything. This ensures that you are always easily-reachable.
Accessible From Every Device
It goes without saying that a user-friendly website needs to be mobile-friendly as well. In another post, we discussed the difference between a mobile site and a responsive site.
When you create a custom designed website with responsive technology, you are guaranteeing easy navigability, no matter the device. In terms of user-friendliness, responsive website technology is practically essential.
Images
The joy of the internet is that it's an interactive, multimedia experience. Images can go a long way toward maintaining attention and involvement, as well as providing instant information. A good website always has just the right amount of images and icons, which should be both beautiful and professional.
You'll also want to think about this in terms of your overall aesthetic. A website is much more fun to peruse when it's pretty.
Whether you're considering a brand new custom design website, or maybe just upgrades to your old one, Hazel Digital Media is here to help. All of our websites combine aesthetic with functionality.
Take a look at our portfolio to see some of the user-friendly websites we've already created.
Or, feel free to Contact Us today with questions or comments. We'd love to hear from you.