15 Website Elements That Attract Visitors

Written by Catherine Franz


Here is a quick list of components that make a website attractive. They are listed in layers of attractiveness beginning withrepparttar "must-haves" torepparttar 118395 "nice to haves."

1. Staterepparttar 118396 website's purpose up front and clearly. Do this as quickly as possible. The visitor needs to know immediately if they have landed onrepparttar 118397 right site. They also need to know "what’s in it for me to stay here". If you don't provide this, they are gone. 90% ofrepparttar 118398 sites onrepparttar 118399 Net don't do this.

2. Give visitorsrepparttar 118400 ability to search for exactly what they are looking for, especially if they have something exact in mind. A "site search feature" satisfies this best. Allowrepparttar 118401 search feature to be prominently displayed and not hidden away somewhere. It is best to place it inrepparttar 118402 navigational system so that it shows up on every page. Sales letters that are only on websites are an exception to this rule. Return visitors and visitors that have something specifically in mind wantrepparttar 118403 option and ability to find what they want fast, so give it to them.

3. Photos allow connection. Especially to people who process visually. Clip art gets them to pay attention, however, it doesn't create much of a connection. Personal photos connect within reason. Keep them less than three to a page. One photo always needs to be inrepparttar 118404 top portion ofrepparttar 118405 screen onrepparttar 118406 first page. It doesn't need to be large, it just needs to be attractive.

4. Find ways to capture visitors' information wherever possible.

5. Place items onrepparttar 118407 site that will keep them lingering. Audio and video are one of these, yet there are other less time consuming and inexpensive ways to keep them entertained.

Internet addiction!

Written by Daniel Punch


The Internet is fast becoming just another part of everyday life, much likerepparttar TV andrepparttar 118394 computer itself. What started as something amazing, exciting, and often out of reach, has become commonplace and freely available. Technology is advancing at an amazing rate. I can remember when 56k connections wererepparttar 118395 new exciting fad that everyone just had to have, and now you’re almost abnormal if you still chug along with your trusty dialup. The Net has become integrated into our lives, as people are becoming dependant on its services. The advent ofrepparttar 118396 Internet has its threatening side though. It has been found that some people are becoming addicted torepparttar 118397 online world.

A recent news story reported thatrepparttar 118398 Finnish army has sent some of its conscripts home due torepparttar 118399 fact that they are unable to handlerepparttar 118400 compulsory six months inrepparttar 118401 army without access to their computers. When computers andrepparttar 118402 Internet are becoming integral components or evenrepparttar 118403 main focus of leisure, education, and work time, it’s not hard to see how losing access can really affect someone. I can see this new technology getting blamed for all sorts of woes inrepparttar 118404 future much inrepparttar 118405 same way television has inrepparttar 118406 present.

Internet addiction comes in many forms. The common areas of Internet addiction that are often listed are cybersex, cyber-relations, gaming, information addiction, andrepparttar 118407 simple addiction to computers and Internet in general. Information addiction is an interesting concept to me. Basicallyrepparttar 118408 sheer volume of information freely available online has lead to some people desperately ‘needing’ to find out more and more. To me, getting people obsessed with learning seems kind of like a good thing, but it does seem that it can form a similar sort of mentality to drug addiction whererepparttar 118409 user is always searching for their next ‘hit’ which becomes harder and harder to find. Oftenrepparttar 118410 depth of information available is actually lacking. We tend to skim read information online by just picking out a few points and then moving on. I’ve found in my own case that it’s sometimes quite hard to concentrate on a page long enough to read it in its entirety. I tend to read a little until I getrepparttar 118411 basic idea and then move on. This process has carried over intorepparttar 118412 ‘real world’ in some ways with newspapers rarely keeping my interest long enough to actually get through a whole article of any real length. I’ve witnessed similar experiences with friends and families and I think that attention spans are gradually getting shorter.

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