How to make your website visitor's friendly?

It's very important that your website should be friendly so that visitors of your website would appreciate and love to stay long. Here's a few tips:

1. Don't distract your visitors with blinking or scrolling text, animated GIFs, or auto-loading sound.

Animation and sounds are distracting. How can anyone concentrate on reading what's on your site when there are things flying around the page? It's like trying to read a newspaper when someone's poking you in the shoulder repeatedly.

Another problem with scrolling text is that the reader can't read it at their own pace. They're forced to read it at whatever speed you deliver it. They might have preferred to read those two sentences quickly and then move on, but because it's scrolling they have to sit there and wait for the text to slowly appear.

2. Minimize clicking!

Put as few clicks between your visitor and your information as possible. The more you force your visitors to click around your site the more likely they'll abandon it.

3. Compress your image files.

Nothing is more annoying to readers than waiting for a 200k graphic to load when it should be only 20k instead. Graphics software can compress files so they take up less room on your disk, and therefore take less time to load into your visitors' browsers.

4. Use contrasting colors or simple backgrounds to make your text easy to read.

It's hard to read light text on a light background, or dark text on a dark background. There are also some color combinations that don't work.


5. Make the text large enough to read.

Don't yell at me for stating the obvious, because it's not obvious to everyone: Just today a webmaster referred me to his site which I had to squint to read. Don't punish your visitors if you want them to actually read your content. With CSS rules, go for 12 or 13px Arial, and 11 or 12px Verdana.

I hope this tips would give some help.

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5.www.business.com
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10.www.jayde.com
11.www.skaffe.com
12.www.ezilon.com
13.www.mavicanet.com
14.www.botw.org
15.www.avivadirectory.com
16.www.elib.org
17.www.directory.v7n.com
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