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How to Create an Effective Web Design for Your Business – Our Guide

by | Jun 2, 2020 | Design, Wordpress

How you present your business in the digital market also contributes to its success. Although it may be easy to create a website, making it stand out against your competitors may be challenging. With that said, you should learn how to maximize your online presence to attract more visitors and get more engagement.

Your site design is one of the key features of your website. Its look and layout affect how visitors interact with your website. Additionally, it also builds your business’ brand identity, so it would be wise for you to invest in a professional website.

Here are some key things that you should do to have an effective web design:

Choose an appropriate theme for your site aesthetics 

Websites allow you to be as creative as you can get, but make sure that your aesthetics reflect and define your business appropriately. Doing that will help build your brand and help visitors to recognize your business quickly when they encounter it on other platforms.

Make the tone of your website consistent to strengthen your brand’s identity in your visitors’ minds. Choose the right colour scheme, layout, fonts, and language when designing a professional website. For instance, if you own a cupcake company, make your website lively and colourful to attract people to your website and encourage them to stay.

Match your site design to your company goals 

When planning a design, always keep in mind your company goals. What do you want to achieve in creating a website? Do you want to sell products or offer services? Perhaps you want visitors to subscribe to your channels and pages. Whichever your goal is, you should design your website in a way that addresses that goal.

If you are selling goods, your website should focus on “selling.” Make sure that when people click your website link, they will be directed to your shop. Place indicators that you are selling goods by putting a cart icon on the top right corner of your website, for example.

Install interactive features in your site

If you want to keep visitors on your website, install interactive features that they can spend their time on. You can either design interactive elements on your page or offer mini-games that your visitors can play with, provided that they are relevant to your business. Some other simple games that you can offer on your site are the popular “What type of __ are you?” quiz games.

That being said, an interactive feature isn’t necessarily limited to just games. It can also pertain to feedback forms, surveys, subscription buttons, guestbooks, and a lot more.

Create high-quality, informative blog posts 

More than the site design, the quality of your content carries your brand so you should pay attention to it as well. The readability of your blog posts is part of your site design. Your font style choices, their size, and their formatting significantly affect the traffic and viewer retention rate of your website.

Creating easy-to-navigate and readable content will keep visitors on your website. Doing so attracts visitors to your website and helps them be informed about the products or services that you offer. Additionally, producing high-quality, informative content will help search engines find and rank your website favourably.

Make your website is shareable on various social media sites

To get more traffic on your website, make sure that your content is shareable on multiple social media sites. These platforms have massive active user populations, so you may want to take advantage of their widespread reach.

Install plug-ins on your site where visitors can share your content on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Place these at the bottom or the top of your content where people can quickly notice them.

Conclusion

Web design affects the success of your business. It is one of the key features that can attract visitors and keep customers loyal to your products or services. To make an effective website, you should know how to design it in a manner that serves its purpose and addresses your company goals. Also keep in mind that when designing your site, you should prioritize the user-experience.

If you own a business and are looking for the best website design services, make sure to get in touch with us today at BaseHost, we’re happy to help you!

Anna Henchy / About Author

Anna is a marketing whiz. She's been working in the online space with a specialisation in rich content creation for close to 10 years. Anna's our dedicated copywriter and BaseHost blogger.

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