Any kind of web site you are going to set up, its layout and the design should be made by keeping end user in mind. Though optimizing it for search engines is important at any point of time, but you need to focus more on the user experience part, obviously, the web site exists for the user and to make their experience enjoyable, so it’s crucial you design it for them and not for you.

You might be visiting few web sites when you go online and some of them just simply do not make you feel good about it. It may be a layout of the whole web page which is uninteresting or the flow may be crisscross. So in order to keep them neat, informative and serving the purpose, there is not much you need to do instead some simple things you need to take care of which are easily ignored.

User Friendly Web Design

Clicking a Logo Would Take Me to Homepage

Everyone expects this whenever you are visiting any new web site. You tend to click on the logo of the web site and hope that it would take you back to the homepage of the website, but no! In such cases, you are going to opt one of these options:

• Try clicking on the logo again thinking first time your mice had some problem
• Look for a “Home” option on the page and click on it.
• Close down that web site.

I think this is an essential part and you must associate the web site logo to the homepage and it does not take much time to do so. And its worth when we know users will like it and appreciate the web site for being user friendly.

Designing and Placing the Navigation Bar

There is lot when Navigation Bar needs to be designed, however, there could be one answer to it. We are used to and try to locate the nav bar at the top of the page just below the logo. However, there is no rule that you must have look-alike nav bar on your web site too. From designing the tab to type of menu options, you have complete independence on these choices but don’t over do things making overall customer experience a failure.

Another small useful tip is you must ensure that the tab the user is on must be highlighted in different theme or color. This is an indication to the user which page of the nav bar he is on.

Where is the Search Bar?

It makes me so amaze to find that many web sites do not have a search bar on them. Trust me your users will “Thank you” if you are going to put this option in your web site. There are others ways too which can help locating content on your site. One can add a list of contents and categorize them making it easier for user to click on their interest of help area.

Carving Links So That They Appear Link

You can easily make out a link on a web page but you may not easily on some web sites. A link is normally identifiable with a different color than the normal text of a page or it may be underlined denoting easily that it is clickable. Again, it’s going to be an excellent user experience when they find clickable items easily on the web page.

Splashing Welcome Notes and Feedback

Whenever I logon to any web site I have registered to, I feel good about my name displayed at the top with a welcome message. It gives personalized look and brings you and website closer to each other. Off course, this may not be of any use if the web site does not require you to register.

Next thing I am going to highlight is about the error you may see while filling up an online form for registration. And it’s really bugging when it does not tell you the reason for error you made inadvertently. You must help user explaining the whole registration process and give hints and suggestion box to rectify errors they might come across.

It’s always going to be the kind of user who will decide your site’s overall design. After all, there is a lot of difference between a real-estate site and teen’s site.