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Web design and social networking websites

July 3, 2009  

Joshua Texeria
123Triad: Web Design & SEO Company

Web design and social networking websites

No one can question the huge impact of today’s social networking websites. People spend hours and hours in those websites just socializing with their friends. Others use it as a way to promote their business. The ideas of how you can use such websites are limited only to your imagination.

But what makes those websites successful? The answer is high quality web design.

In order to make a successful social networking website you need an experienced design and development team. Even the greatest idea will not flourish if you don’t have designers and programmers with years of expertise in this area.

A good designer will provide you with a user friendly navigation menu, which is one of the most important factors in the success of your website. Users need to find easily how to navigate through your pages.

Now, for such a site, what you need is to offer many interaction options to your users so that they will want to become your future members. Perhaps the biggest interaction that takes place now is the exchange of photographs online. So what you should do is to offer an excellent designed application that users will find it easy to upload and share their pictures online. A good programmer should work closely with your designer of course. And if you want to attract more members don’t just stick to the photos. Social networking’s idea is the ability to share as much as you can. Photographs, videos, songs, mini games played amongst friends, even films for certain groups are what people want. However, if you want your design to be successful you need to create such a layout so that all those applications and various elements of your webpage will be displayed with balance since you don’t want to scare your users with too much information that they won’t be able to absorb.

One mistake that has been made in the past is the overflow of images and graphics, in attempt to attract users. The results were exactly the opposite since those can cause heavy loading times so the users don’t find it worthy to spend their time in such a website. You should offer them file sharing applications but always keep in mind that the images, videos and graphics should be resized in order to avoid bandwidth issues and slow loading times. In order to attract new members you have to offer something unique and overloading your website with tons of images and graphics is not the way. You can offer more with less. Uniqueness can be accomplished in many ways and overflow of graphics is not one of them. It can be a radical new application that will allow users to do something they haven’t experienced before.

Also point out the key elements of your website. For example, in social networking sites the most important element is the registration process. Make sure your layout is designed in such manner so that the register button stands out. Think of the basic design principles. Isolation will work best in that case, since it will emphasize your “sign in” button.

Keep symmetry to your layout, in your homepage, which is the first thing your users will see, and also in the layout of the personalized pages of each member/user.

That way, your users eagerly will want to spend their time in your website, socializing, exchanging files, having fun or even promoting their business. It’s in the hands of the designer to create a friendly website that people will not want to leave.

123Triad webdesign offers affordable custom website design. Our full service website design company only hires certified website designers. Please contact us today on 1-800-720-0816 for your next web site design project.

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