Web Design Tips: How to Please Thoughtful, In-Depth Visitors
- By Cheow Yu Yuan
- Published 04/27/2011
- Web Design
- Unrated
Visitors who come to a website and spend time really reading the content and going over the videos and images are hard to come by. So many visitors jump quickly from one website to another until they get tired and settle for one random site or just log off the Internet altogether.
This makes those thoughtful, in-depth visitors who give good websites serious attention all the more valuable.
The question is how can you keep these more thoughtful, enlightened visitors around longer when they find your website. It may seem like there is some elusive secret that you may never discover, but it actually comes down to how you design your website and what content you put on it.
Designing a Site worth Thought
If you want visitors to stick around your site for awhile and really hang on every word you have to share, you have to create your space so it is worth that type of time and inspection. This means the site must be contain:
* Visually stimulating images, graphs, statistics, and other features picked up immediately by the eye.
* Very high quality written content that educates, reflects, and illuminates on things worth studying.
* A great navigation system that makes it very easy to go from one page to another.
* Unique content beyond basic articles or blocks of text.
If you can put up a website filled with very valuable information and effective, educational videos backed up by nice images, you can keep those more thoughtful visitors happy for a longer period of time.
Website Content worth Time
If the content on your site is not worth time and attention, then it isn't going to get much. You have to put your own time into designing a site that people will want to read word for word and linger on for awhile. If you don't spend this time and just slap up whatever unoriginal content you can come across cheaply, then it is going to show to your visitors.
When coming up with content for your website try to offer something very original and unique. Check out the websites for your biggest competitors and try to do better than them, rather than just copying them. Your goal is to offer everything that those competitors offer plus more.
This means you need some basic, general content that introduces the world to what you know and love but then you need something very original that your competitors aren't offering or haven't thought of yet.
This could mean you present content on a very tight niche related to your overall business that others are tapping into yet. It could mean adding message boards or other interactive features that your competitors haven't thought of included yet.
When you offer a lot of the same stuff as your competitors then some stuff that no one else is offering you ensure that your visitors find your site more valuable. They can get the same thing other sites are offering plus a lot more when they hang around your site or make a purchase from you.
You need all of this to fit together in the end. The website design has to work well with the content and the content has to be easily navigated by the website design. This is how you create a virtual space that thoughtful visitors will want to spend time exploring.
This makes those thoughtful, in-depth visitors who give good websites serious attention all the more valuable.
The question is how can you keep these more thoughtful, enlightened visitors around longer when they find your website. It may seem like there is some elusive secret that you may never discover, but it actually comes down to how you design your website and what content you put on it.
Designing a Site worth Thought
If you want visitors to stick around your site for awhile and really hang on every word you have to share, you have to create your space so it is worth that type of time and inspection. This means the site must be contain:
* Visually stimulating images, graphs, statistics, and other features picked up immediately by the eye.
* Very high quality written content that educates, reflects, and illuminates on things worth studying.
* A great navigation system that makes it very easy to go from one page to another.
* Unique content beyond basic articles or blocks of text.
If you can put up a website filled with very valuable information and effective, educational videos backed up by nice images, you can keep those more thoughtful visitors happy for a longer period of time.
If the content on your site is not worth time and attention, then it isn't going to get much. You have to put your own time into designing a site that people will want to read word for word and linger on for awhile. If you don't spend this time and just slap up whatever unoriginal content you can come across cheaply, then it is going to show to your visitors.
When coming up with content for your website try to offer something very original and unique. Check out the websites for your biggest competitors and try to do better than them, rather than just copying them. Your goal is to offer everything that those competitors offer plus more.
This means you need some basic, general content that introduces the world to what you know and love but then you need something very original that your competitors aren't offering or haven't thought of yet.
This could mean you present content on a very tight niche related to your overall business that others are tapping into yet. It could mean adding message boards or other interactive features that your competitors haven't thought of included yet.
When you offer a lot of the same stuff as your competitors then some stuff that no one else is offering you ensure that your visitors find your site more valuable. They can get the same thing other sites are offering plus a lot more when they hang around your site or make a purchase from you.
You need all of this to fit together in the end. The website design has to work well with the content and the content has to be easily navigated by the website design. This is how you create a virtual space that thoughtful visitors will want to spend time exploring.
Cheow Yu Yuan
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