Grab Visitors Attention with a Professional Web Design

In 2016, having a professionally created web design is vital to having a properly running website that works well for visitors, search engines, and achieves your online goals. It’s been estimated that you only have a few seconds to make an impression on website visitors before they leave your page. If your web design does not grab their attention immediately, your visitors might not want to stick around for long. In fact, it’s likely that very few visitors people will need to view more than a few pages of your site before making their decision whether to use your services.

So, with those points in mind, let’s discuss some ways a professional web design can grab the attention of your website visitors. In a future article, we will discuss more how to keep visitor attention with great website content. It’s important to remember that most people spend their time on the internet reading. They read articles, how-to’s, news stories, forums and search results. A professional web design company, such as All in Web Pro in Las Vegas, will take this into account when designing your website. But, we’ll save that for later. Our first step is to grab the visitor’s attention.

Grab Visitors’ Attention

We live our day-to-day lives in a very fast-paced society and we’re used to getting instant results with everything we do. The internet is no different and it’s actually much less forgiving of websites that don’t deliver the results the visitors are looking for quickly. It’s important to remember that visitors will only stay on your site for a few seconds if they don’t see something that immediately grabs their attention or let’s them find the information they’re looking for.

Try loading your website and ask yourself a few questions about what your visitor will see. How long does it take before anything is visible on the page? What is the first thing that shows up once the site has loaded? How much time passes before you see readable text? Is it immediately clear what the website is about? You can even ask some friends or family to try this to get a more thorough impression.

Web Page Load Times

Another important thing to consider, and one of the most overlooked aspects of web design, are graphics. It’s very common to visit a website and find that images load very slowly. This gives visitors another reason not to stick around on your website. Hiring a professional web design company like All in Web Pro will prevent bad design decisions like this from happening to you. In the meantime, taking advantage of appropriately sized and optimized JPEG, PNG, or GIF images will help reduce the file size and download time to help make your website load faster.
In general, if your graphics have a lot of colors you should be using the JPEG image format and make sure the image is sized correctly so that the file size is not too large and prevents the rest of the website from loading slowly. If your graphics have only a few colors, it may be best to use GIF or PNG image file types. Either way, ensure you find a good balance between image quality and file size. Of course, there are many other factors to the role that graphics play in professional web design. If you hire a professional web design company to create your website, they should already follow these and other guidelines during the design process to ensure you’re online presence is optimized and has its best foot forward.

Calls to Action

A ‘call to action’ is a term that web designers use to describe anything that requests that your website visitors take a specific action. This can be an offer statement in the form of text, an image, a button, or some element on a webpage that prompts visitors to do something. The action of clicking a button, clicking link or image, filling out a form, or performing some other third party related action such as sharing content to social media. Including a call to action can be an easy but important element in your website that can grab your visitors’ attention and help achieve your specific conversion goals when done correctly with a professional web design provider.

All in Web Pro is a professional web design company based in Las Vegas, Nevada. We not only specialize in web design but graphic design for print and web, custom web application development, and much more including helping set up your brand for search engine ranking success through the right SEO (search engine optimization) services.