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How to Make Effective Website Do’s and Don’ts?

How to make a good & effective website? Here is a list of 20 Dos and Don’ts for your website. Tips for Web Designers. Ten things to do Keep your domain name simple and easy to remember. People should be…

By Satej Infotech 15 March 2015

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Ten things to do
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How to make a good & effective website? Here is a list of 20 Dos and Don’ts for your website. Tips for Web Designers.

Ten things to do

Keep your domain name simple and easy to remember. People should be able to type it from memory.
Let visitors control any music. If you have a music website, let people switch the music on and off.
Make your website secure, especially if you run an online store that takes payments.
Make it easy to contact you. Put your contact details or a contact form on every page.
Use search engine optimisation. Optimise your pages with the words your customers use.
Make the website responsive, so it works on a mobile, a tablet, a laptop and a computer.
Use colour to guide the eye to what matters and to your call to action.
Make sure the site works with and without “www” in front of the address.
Show testimonials from past customers, with their name and, if possible, their contact details, as it builds trust.
Add social media buttons and a blog, which help bring fresh content and make it easy for people to share you.

Ten things not to do

Do not use a long domain name. The longer it is, the harder it is to remember and the easier to misspell.
Do not auto-play music. Visitors are more likely to leave.
Do not use too many squeeze pages, which annoy visitors and make them leave.
Do not make navigation complicated. If people cannot find what they came for, they leave.
Do not stuff pages with keywords. There is a limit to how many you can use before the text reads badly.
Do not forget to test how the site looks on a laptop, a tablet and a phone, and in different browsers.
Do not put too much content on a page. Keep text short and to the point.
Do not use Flash. It is not supported on mobile devices and set-top boxes, and it is now obsolete.
Do not upload video testimonials directly. Put them on YouTube and embed them, which shortens loading time.
Do not add a blog or social widget you will not update. An abandoned blog leaves a poor impression.

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