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Make your first impression count! In designing your website, the most important impression you need to make is your first one. To be more specific, you must make this good impression in the top 400 or so pixels of your page. Your goal as webmaster is to make the person that came across your site want to stay and see more. Real Estate agents have known a little secret for a long time. The most important part of any home being shown is the front door. No matter how beautiful or how great the price, people form an opinion at the front door. Since you typically cannot just barge into the house, you have to spend a little time there waiting for the owner to come to the door. There is not much else to look at... What has been proven, is that homes with a warm, clean, welcoming front door sell the fastest. Not only that, but they tend to sell for more. What's the point to this? There is a point to this analogy. The top part of your main page is Your Front Door. It is the first thing people see when they come to your site, and they have to look at it while your page's contents download to their browser. This is the exact situation that you have with our home for sale. Mark your front door clearly. Make certain that every page on your site has a clear and prominant link back to your main page. The word HOME or the icon of a house seems to be an easy enough way to do it. This way if somebody gets lost wandering around, they can quickly find their way to where they started without trying to retrace their steps Be Consistent Reuse navigation icons and provide a consistent look and feel to your site. There is also nothing wrong with using the same buttons as everyone else. In fact this can make people more comfortable with your site. Pick a color theme and stick to it. Changing color schemes every page is confusing. This applies to background colors as well as colors for text, links, etc... Stick to your theme. Do not fill your site with stuff that does not relate to your site.
This article was submitted by the good people of http://www.kreationstudio.com