10 Tips In Creating Effective And Responsive Websites For Nigerian

Websites have become a necessity to almost everyone. Companies, businesses, individuals, even young adults have created personal websites with their respective purposes, be it for profit, or for entertainment. This post considers 10 tips in creating effective and responsive websites for Nigerian

Should You Even Create A Website?
What you must consider, however, before creating a website, are the factors in which must be put to thought before doing so, such as the cost, maintenance, use, web host and so forth.

Since getting a reliable website associates with a cost, try to find an affordable host, without spending too much, or too little. A cheap host does not exactly symbolize a credible reliability rating, but you must always look for value for money deals. Also, regarding the efficiency and server/web host reliability, there are many cases of web hosts not providing the service they had assured other people, some had even shut down and were nowhere to be seen. Keep this note in mind if you would like a long-lasting website, this would be the first thing to look for.

So, having considered the things to do before building a website, do we actually NEED one? If creating a website would boost sales or promote some self positive implications, then by all means, go ahead and do what’s best. Yet again, planning is the key to success, in everything we do.

Here are 10 tips in creating effective and responsive websites for Nigerian.
When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose.These are thumb to observe to make sure of effective and responsive website .


1) Know your audience
Understanding the type of people who visit your site is a very important task because you can use that information to enhance your site to suit them. As a result, you will gain more loyal returning visitors that come back again and again for more.

When you design the layout for your site, you have to take into account the characteristics of your audience. Are they old or young people? Are they looking for trends or are they just looking for information served without any icing on the cake? For example, introducing a new, exciting game with a simple, straightforward black text against white background page will definitely turn prospects away. Make sure your design suits your site’s general theme.

Try to sprinkle colloquial language in your sites sparingly where you see fit and you will create a sense that your audience is on common ground with you. This in turn builds a trusting relationship between you and your audience, which will come in useful should you want to market a product to your audience.


2) Do not use splash pages
Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like “welcome” or “click here to enter”. In fact, they are just that – pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the “back” button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page.

3) Do not use excessive banner advertisements
Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, provide more valuable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, and let your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.


4) Have a simple and clear navigation
You have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered drop-down menus. One of the primary implications of a well-organized / good website is to keep your visitors in the website. If your visitors don’t know how to navigate, they will leave your site.

For online businesses, website certainly aims to provide product information, to make sales, or somewhat similar. However, most individuals undoubtedly prefer visually captivating designs, so on and so forth. It is undeniable that this causes no harm, but one must put himself in other people’s shoes, as to understand how a visitor to the website might think, do and react.

As I said, a web designer has to learn how to think the way your visitors think.

Situation A:
Website with good navigation ( 2-3 hyperlinks to target page ), well planned in terms of placement, and design.

Situation B :
Website with poor navigation ( takes forever for the visitor to reach his/her target page ), hard-to-read navigation fonts and poor placement of the navigation buttons/bar.

In Situation A, a visitor will always want to be able to access his/her target page. For example, the individual comes across your website, and is interested in the product sold, but wants to find more information. He/she finds the navigation with no trouble, and enters the particular product information page.

As for Situation B, a visitor stumbles into the website, and would also like to find out more information about the product. Unfortunately, due to bad placement and fanciful font-types, the visitor takes forever, or even fails to find the navigation bar. Even when he/she does so, links to the product information are nowhere to be found, (example : home > about > products > product image > etc…[a few more clicks] > product information ).

Analysis :
In both situations, wouldn’t a website with characteristics similar to the Situation A be more rewarding ergo better?

5) Have a clear indication of where the user is
When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don’t confuse your visitors because confusion means “abandon ship”! continue reading... https://www.maxdiba.com/blog/10-tips-in-creating-effective-and-responsive-websites-for-nigerian/