| Making your website user friendly and good looking is | | | | not just a robot that you are working with, generally |
| key to its success, you may have the best product in | | | | this means the user will sub-consciously enjoy being on |
| the world and the website may have very good SEO, | | | | the site more than if there wasn't a friendly face. |
| but a bad looking poorly designed website will mean | | | | So, how is it best to give your design a human feel. |
| you won't maximize your sites potential. This article will | | | | Although we like to see other faces this doesn't mean |
| give you one way to make your website more | | | | you should just put random faces across your |
| human-friendly. | | | | website, but you should integrate relevant pictures |
| It is important for your website to use a small collection | | | | whenever possible, you can find many great photos at |
| of colours and be easy on the eye so the user doesn't | | | | Putting a smiling pretty face on your contact page is |
| have to strain when looking at the screen. Another | | | | always a start, this makes it feel like they are actually |
| important part of your design to compliment this is to | | | | contacting a person instead of just sending an e-mail |
| give your website a face, by this it simply means a | | | | into cyberspace. If you sell laptops you may want to |
| picture of a human, even if its only small. | | | | have a picture of a smiling smart person using a laptop, |
| Humans are social things and we like to see other | | | | preferably a small picture on every page (above your |
| humans. Computers are a bit like robots which means | | | | navigation bar or somewhere like that). Its also good to |
| if we spend a long time on them without seeing face | | | | have a picture of a group of people on your |
| we can begin to feel a bit of key - just think about | | | | testimonial page, so users are able to put testimonials |
| how you feel after you've typed an essay for hours | | | | with real people giving it more of a natural human |
| onto your computer. The same is true for when | | | | communication feel. |
| surfing the web, if all websites were just writing and | | | | Every website owner has the ability to put pictures |
| colours then we wouldn't spend half as long as we do | | | | onto their web pages. Every website gets used by |
| online. The simple fact is that we like to see and | | | | humans so should have photos of humans on them. |
| interact with others humans, its natural and is just built | | | | The fact is that humans like to interact with humans, |
| into us, you don't realize it but its just the way it is. | | | | so put pictures onto your website like explained above |
| The idea when designing your website is to work with | | | | and you may find your site has more of a 'real' feeling |
| this fact I.E include photos of real people on your | | | | and visitors will stay just that little bit longer. |
| pages. This will mean the website feels more real, and | | | | |