Here are some of the most important tips you can use when building your website. You will be surprised to see how many webmasters totally ignore these simple things which ultimately leads to frustrating visitors who never come back to your site.
- Use original content
- Correct resolution for your audience
- Add a contact page
- Do not use splash pages
- Test your links
- Organize your content with less links
- Essential site navigation
- Avoid Hot linking to external images, etc.
- Background and fore background contrast ratio
- Avoid using flashy stuff
Unique Content
Use original content. Do not copy and paste from other websites. If you do, you will get penalized by Google or by all the major search engines for duplicate content and you will lose your valuable visitors.
More in-depth look on unique content See this post
Website Resolution And Your Audience
You need to know what resolution the majority of your visitors use on their computer screens to give them a pleasing browsing experience. You can generally go with 800×600 or the more common nowadays 1024×768 pixels.
For a more detailed version See this post
Simple Contact Page
Add a link to a simple contact page to every page of your site. You need a establish some communication with your visitors. Communication is one of the key elements to bringing more visitors. Plus you will get valuable feedback so you can build a more optimized browsing experience.
Splash Pages
Splash pages used to be a big thing in the past. Some designers still use them, but most do not. There is only one reason for that. Splash pages are annoying. Sure it will give your audience an understanding of who you are and your services, but they don’t need to see the same page every visit to your homepage.
This also means your visitor need to go through an additional page to see the actual content. So avoid using them Splash Pages.
