Week 4 Reading

A websites homepage can make or break a user ever coming back to your site. You want the users to be able to easily navigate your site and know exactly where they want to go. Like the last blog post, having a 3 year old navigate your site would be a wise way of thinking about building your site. You don't want to over complicate things by adding in unnecessary information, but if you have to have promotional banners they should be accompanied to your site accordingly. There are many ways the structure of the site can make or break someone coming back to your website, if you have a massive mess of a page like many of the websites that came out when the internet was first created, then good luck getting large quantities of viewers. Use as much space as necessary to complete the goals of your website. Keep the jargon and long paragraphs down to a minimum, bullet things creatively if you need to. Refrain from using drop down menus unnecessarily, keep them for forms or specific products. And if you do use drop down menus, make sure they are alphabetized for convenience. If you design to use a roll over bubble, make sure the bubble is in a close range of where you rolled over. For user purposes it is really inconvenient to have to look at the lower left hand corner of the screen to read something, just to have to look back up again to figure out where you need to roll over next.

Drop Down Menus: Use Sparingly

Rollover image on your website? That'll be $80,000 (please)

How to effectively organize your pages