Don’t Get Lost In The Sauce Of Beautiful Website Design

January 28, 2020

Websites, across the board, have never looked better in 2020. From minimal designs that are able to provide you with a sleek, beautiful look, presenting immediate and prescient information to clients and helping them navigate your best offering, graphic and UX designers really do deserve to be commended.

And yet, with sites such as Squarespace, or even WordPress templates, it can be easy to get lost in the sauce of beautiful website design. Branding your website well, and using it as a natural extension of your offering is a worthwhile approach to take. That being said, if you only have a beautiful website with nothing concrete to back it up, what’s the point? More than anything, although not on its own, a business website should be useful. What reason do your clients have to visit your website?

Here’s another important question to ask yourself – is your website a vanity project, or is it something you can use to promote and gain business? Don’t be afraid of asking that question, it can help you move past conjecture and towards results.

With the following advice, we’ll show you how:

User Accounts & Functionality

User accounts and the functionality afforded to them can help your business retain an audience. It might be that you allow them to submit support tickets there, or purchase products, or even subscribe to a VIP account status that may give them free delivery and a special discount on certain offers. User accounts can also aid you in your attempts to track customer information and come to conclusions about that on a larger scale. But for the most part, this pursuit should help you offer much more utility to your web visitors.

Secure Traffic

Secure traffic, with secure web certifications should be able to inspire confidence in those who have come to visit your website. Many browsers ensure that a website is safe before allowing traffic to it in 2020, and so it’s important that you have all of your digital signatures well-considered and your licenses carefully applied. This can not only ensure that your customer confidence is well established, but you’ll ensure a streamlined and smooth experience.

Quick Loading, Easy Use

It’s important to ensure that your website is well-formatted and easy to load. This will help any firm attract and retain online visitors. When images are too large, or the widgets are too heavy, or you haven’t coded your website correctly, it can be slow to load and a very frustrating experience for the end-user. This is why the best web design service is able to approximate these golden standards while still providing an excellent backbone of care necessary for any business to properly thrive. When using your services in this way, you are much more likely to ensure a competent and presentable website space to begin with. This can have an untold positive effect on your brand.

With this advice, we hope you’ll avoid getting lost in the sauce of beautiful web design.

Mark Asquith

That British podcast guy, Mark is co-founder of Captivate.fm, the world's only growth-oriented podcast host. A Harvard, TEDx, Podcast Movement and Podfest speaker (amongst many more!), he's a wildly approachable Brit and Star Wars/DC Comics geek.

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