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Senior Analyst at The Church Agency
19 November 2008 10:39am
The purpose of the website needs to reflected from its look. Irrespective of the nature of business, every website, be it ecommerce application-enabled or just general, needs visitors. And the design of your website is very crucial in drawing the visitor and enticing them to stay. The website needs to be professional and user-friendly. To offer your website a professional look, some of the steps followed by an experienced web design agency(www.churchdigitalagency.com) are.
Designing the website in black background with text in light, white, or pale color.
Avoiding the everything centered pattern to avoid avoid the monotonous look
Emphasizing and making the information bold when required only
Avoiding using blinking text, text on not-easily-available font, small font
Developing easy-to-understand informative content and adding images keeping the psychology of the target audience in mind
Using Flash judiciously
Applying audio clips according to necessity
Content consultant at Kath Burke Ltd
19 November 2008 14:10pm
Hi Darryl
Is this a thread for everyone to advertise their wares? Anyone want to know I'm fab too?
Web Marketing Manager at www.venuebirmingham.com
19 November 2008 15:54pm
Sorry? - are you serious?! - putting your site in light grey with white text is PROFESSIONAL?!?!
Please explain how making something harder to read and slowing down peoples reading times on an already eye-unfriendly device such as a computer monitor actually makes a site better?!
Content consultant at Kath Burke Ltd
19 November 2008 16:23pm
On 15:54:01 19 November 2008 JamesRobertson wrote:
Hi James
Yes... ahem... this was what I was thinking when I read that post... .hence my ironic reply. Surely dark grey writing on a white or almost white background is the easiest to read. We all know that reversed out text is usually harder to read. Of course the exception is for some people with the sort of dyslexia that makes the words jump about on the page. For such people, they have a particular colour of text they find harder or easier to read. For the rest of us reversed out text is a bit of a no-no - unless it's for headings that are larger, and of course only a few words to read at a time.
Senior Analyst at The Church Agency
22 December 2008 17:18pm
Hello all.
Firstly, I must apologise for the intial posting. It was done by an SEO company on my behalf as part of an awareness exercise. We no longer use their services.
Secondly, the views expressed were not one of our company and absolutlely not views that I share.
And lastly, I do agree with your comments about legibilty of text. In fact we take accessibility and usibility very seriously and make sure all of our sites are developed with Best Practice in mind.
I would be happy to dicuss any web usability issues further.
Darryll Bayes