Website Design

Since I started talking about colors I’m going to try and explain a little better how colors might effect the site visitor.

Black

White

Red

Blue

Green

Yellow

Purple

Brown

Pink

Little things can have a big impact on how your visitor feels and reacts to your website. While the visitor to your site can careless about the color of your site the colors do affect him/her. In most cases the site visitor is not even aware of the effect the colors have on them.

People feel more relaxed in green rooms and weightlifters do better in blue gyms. Colors effect us rather we know it or not. If you’re designing a website you need to know and understand how the colors you use are going to affect your site visitor.

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It’s important that you understand, while you need a good design and name that will help you stand out from the competition, your site visitor could really careless about your design. The site visitor is there to serve their need.

They are either looking for information, to purchase a product or to be entertained. Your site design should help them meet their needs, while at the same time branding your business into their minds. Adding unnecessary flash and moving text into the design because you think it looks neat, is not going to do this.

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It’s important that your design stands out from the competition. If someone lands on your site today and returns tomorrow you want them to remember your site and not wonder rather they’ve been there before.

The design needs to blow away the competition while at the same time being clean and easy to use.

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I’ve never been a big fan of blogs, due to the fact that they display each post in reverse chronological order. If you write part 1 of an article and later write part 2 then part 2 ends up on top of part 1. But here lately I’ve been hearing about this guy that goes by the name of Perez Hilton.

Perez Hilton has become quite famous due to his blog. He made in excess of $100,000.00 last year blogging, as well as building quite a name for himself. My understanding is that he started out totally broke and I’ve even herd rumors that he was homeless. Either way I was intrigued by his story and decided to spend some time studying his blog.

Perez Hilton will make as many as 24 post or more per day. You can start reading one page and by the time you get to the bottom of that page you can hit refresh and start over. Most of his post are short and include a picture. To give you an idea of the amount of traffic he gets, his website served over 3.97 million unique visitors in a 24 hour period.

The short post and pictures keep you reading. If you write a long article most people want read all the way to the end, but short little post are easy to read and if there interesting, people will read more of your post and even continue on to page 2. The number of post are equally important, the blog is pinging other websites while at the same time getting picked up on the search engines for all the different keywords in each post. Enough posting per day and it is just a matter of time before someone takes notice.

I’ve started playing with this a little in the last week. Step one was finding a topic that I felt I could make 20 post a day or more about. I feel like I can do this on my Bible blog and think that I can find enough information and I’m interested enough in the topic that with some effort on my part I can make the 20 post per day mark. I posted a little but found the same problem I’ve always had with blogs and that is that my last post shows up first. But I found a way around this, by creating a page and then putting links at the bottom of the page to each of my post, I’m able to write and put things in the order I want them to show in.

But because I’m writing about the Bible there was the problem of writing short post and being able to show Bible proof for each of my post. The post become long and are no longer short little post. I’ve now figured out a way to work around this, I place a little link that when clicked on opens a new window with the Bible proof.

The next problem is in finding pictures for each of my post. Its time consuming and all most impossible to find the pictures online. I’ve decided to hire an artist whose only job will be drawing pictures for my post, I’m interviewing people for that job as I write this post.

The last step is the design. I’ve got my guys playing with the design now. I want something that is different from all the other Bible sites that are online. If you land on my site I don’t want you to have to wonder if you’ve been there before.

As I workout both of the above problems I’m going to go ahead and move forward with the project. I’m going to attempt to make 20 short post everyday on the blog and see if just making these post, is enough to get the site to getting thousands of visitors per a day. In case anyone is wondering the blog was not getting any visitors when I started. I have started getting some links to the blog but I’m trying to get a couple 1,000 visitors per day so I’ll need some links to get the search engines interested in what is going on.

I’m also going to do the same with JanethD.com but will have Magda one of the girls here in the office making the 20 post per day on that blog along with myself. There has been a small change in plans, we are going to use Magdda.com instead of Janethd.com.