Comments on: The 60 Second Battle: Keeping the Visitor http://blog.eukhost.com/webhosting/the-60-second-battle-keeping-the-visitor/ UK, PHP, MySQL, MS SQL, Frontpage, eCommerce, Web, Linux, Windows, HTML, Website, Hosting, Plesk, Cpanel Hosting tutorials & UK Hosting News. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:52:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: jc8654 http://blog.eukhost.com/webhosting/the-60-second-battle-keeping-the-visitor/#comment-56702 jc8654 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:26:56 +0000 http://blog.eukhost.com/2006/06/18/the-60-second-battle-keeping-the-visitor/#comment-56702 One of the best ways to design a site is to put yourself in your visitors shoes (or ask someone else about what they think). The first thing people often look at is the image of the site. If you are a web design service and your site doesn't look professional, what will that say to your customers? Secondly, people often don't want to read the homepage of a website in detail. They will look for the navigation and head to what they want to find. This means you have to have the navigation CLEARLY visible and with sensible links which explain what you're going to. Obviously don't hide your navigation at the bottom as people expect it at the top or usually on the left i.e. don't break too far from what's expected but do make your site memorable/unique. Finally content is what will make or break your site. Once your visitor has found the section they were looking for then it's all about the content of that page. This can be text but also images. Make sure everything is relevant to what you're trying to say including images. Linking to other relevant places can be helpful as well. One of the best ways to design a site is to put yourself in your visitors shoes (or ask someone else about what they think).

The first thing people often look at is the image of the site. If you are a web design service and your site doesn’t look professional, what will that say to your customers?
Secondly, people often don’t want to read the homepage of a website in detail. They will look for the navigation and head to what they want to find. This means you have to have the navigation CLEARLY visible and with sensible links which explain what you’re going to. Obviously don’t hide your navigation at the bottom as people expect it at the top or usually on the left i.e. don’t break too far from what’s expected but do make your site memorable/unique.
Finally content is what will make or break your site. Once your visitor has found the section they were looking for then it’s all about the content of that page. This can be text but also images. Make sure everything is relevant to what you’re trying to say including images. Linking to other relevant places can be helpful as well.

]]> By: Bob http://blog.eukhost.com/webhosting/the-60-second-battle-keeping-the-visitor/#comment-278 Bob Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:25:24 +0000 http://blog.eukhost.com/2006/06/18/the-60-second-battle-keeping-the-visitor/#comment-278 To turn a visitor to a customer is not that much easy process, you should try to make them to stay longer enough on your site and motivate them for revisit, no doubt Content plays major role for that and eventually the "Exit page" is the gateway to bring them back, the Exit page should have crucial infomation followed with alternative link. Overall your site should have ability to understand the mind of your visitors with little bit interactive features. To turn a visitor to a customer is not that much easy process, you should try to make them to stay longer enough on your site and motivate them for revisit, no doubt Content plays major role for that and eventually the “Exit page” is the gateway to bring them back, the Exit page should have crucial infomation followed with alternative link.
Overall your site should have ability to understand the mind of your visitors with little bit interactive features.

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