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Article : Visual Appeal in Website Design
Content is an essential factor
for the success of a website. But often visual
appeal is the influential factor as to decide
whether a client to see the product or services
provided by the website company.
Visual appeal sometimes work wonders for any
business. Study shows often consumers buy products
which they like than which they need. Visual appeal
can drive any customer to purchase a product or
service today.
Automatic Thumbnails
Thumbnails are the easiest way to view images. These
are the one click operation which can be operated
without any coding knowledge. Thumbnails allow the
designer to display large images without reducing
page load time. You can also hyperlink the images to
be opened in a new window.
Optimization of Graphics
No matter how good you design your graphics, if it
takes long time to load then all your labor will be
fruitless. Visitors won't stay long enough to see
your page loading. You can use FrontPage (FP) to
save your graphics which can reduce the loading
time. Save your images in better resolution formats
like JPEG and GIF. JPEG is the best and widely used
image format while GIF is for computer generated
graphics or transparent images. You can
significantly reduce the image loading time without
changing your image quality.
Picture Properties and Alt Tags
Alt tags are now important for search engine
optimization. This gives the required content for
the images. Search engines can read alt tags for the
images. If you are coding manually then alt tags can
be a simple way of coding. These tags don't need any
special coding skill and can be done easily and
quickly. Alt tags help you to get recognized by the
search engines. Even if your graphics won't load in
certain browsers, search engines can at least read
your alt tag. Be particular while choosing images.
Maintain similar image properties through out your
site so that the visitors won't feel image jerk in
the website. FrontPage can fix the same size for
you. This can make the total process similar and
easy, so that you can have great images in your
website.
Photo Editing
Photo editing can be done to adorn the image. It can
provide a last minute finishing touch to your
images. Though many designers prefer different photo
editors but it is just to create quality graphics. | |
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