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