Web Design of Attractive or Practical Websites?

designedbylucas · #1 (**permalink**) 04-25-2009, 10:45 PM

There is a very slim margin between an attractive website and a practical website. Unfortunately in most cases flash animation is involved in the design of an attractive website, and the reason I say unfortunately is because regardless of how majestic and glamorous a flash site looks; the odds against it are way too many.

But let’s talk about beauty and usability. It is always a fact that your eyes are the first to be hit by the sun’s light. Then comes the information that goes to your brain and is I am not mistaken it should be like this; uhhh pretty, ouch my eyes burn!

My point is this; you need to have a decent website, a website that has been designed with a touch of professionalism and some eye candy to make your client understand that he is dealing with a professional business. I few images here and nicely designed graphics to illustrate the content of your website. But with out over doing it because what really matters is what comes next; the content. People some how got to your website and most surely they are in search of something that you can provide. Your mission is to make that service or product reachable to your visitor as easy as possible. Don’t make your website complicated and full of gizmos and animation, do you want to sell or do you want to entertain your visitors for a few minutes until they decide it’s time to move on to another website?

You need to design a website that gets to the point. So attractive websites are good, but don’t over do it, you need your visitor to become a customer and in order to accomplish that he need to find what he was looking for right away.

jamescliff · #2 (**permalink**) 09-17-2009, 01:59 AM

Hi,

Here are nice point of views about website design.

Well, I believe that professional website design approach revolves around the concept that one must align brand, human, technical, and business goals to maximize the user experience.

Earnest · #3 (**permalink**) 09-21-2009, 01:49 AM

Well, there's always the good taste thing. Lot's of flash IMO is not good, just as an overdone design. Again, load time is critical.

I guess the most important requirement a site has to meet is to never put visitors off. By anything, ranging from weird design decisions to poor navigation.

businesssoftware · #4 (**permalink**) 10-22-2009, 11:37 PM

Great explanation, surely i thank you for receiving this information.

FrisArvz · #5 (**permalink**) 10-26-2009, 02:33 AM

If both are been optimized in the same manner, I'll go with an attractive design (provided that the design really inflict the theme of the website and not made of full flash).

kenjpet · #6 (**permalink**) 11-18-2009, 10:51 AM

This reminds me of a competitors site I saw. The flash was magnificent. It took 3 to 4 minutes to get to the products. I greatly enjoyed his work but the products were the same as mine. I don't think flash is a good idea for e commerce unless it is short and sweet. Yes, it took him a long time to load and I have never seen his site since.

janicejan · #7 (**permalink**) 11-19-2009, 09:56 AM

professionalism represents a good web design, and it is one way to ensure that visitors will come back to your site, over designing your site might lead to confusion and makes it hard for visitors to navigate on your site, it might also lead to slow loading page which makes visitors irritated and just leave your site at once. So in short we must ensure that we have a user friendly site.

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