Domain Owl

How is your splash page coming along? Many webmasters and domainers don’t realize that a splash page (also called a landing page or doorway page) does not have to be the homepage. The homepage for many sites might be a central hub or platform. A website should have niche uses for specialized users, like blogroll link raiders or mouse potatoes looking for new territory.

There is a strategic way to use these pages when ordering your site plan. Displeased or frustrated visitors do not channel click streams for sites they don’t like. Making appealing sites is the pathway to more traffic and ad revenues. Instead of putting up a construction page, morph the features one by one or only install the fully reconstructed site as a relaunch when it has been fully debugged.

Proofing the landing page, and the entire site, is important. Netizens like to become part of well designed sites with few errors or glitches. A smooth, not overly busy template, a clean logo, a straightforward purpose to the site, and original content are an achievement some domainers are still trying to accomplish. Stacked “features” that fill the pipe just drive users away. hammering away at the megahertz isn’t always the way.

The splash page is the flashy show you want to direct new users to for maximum potential experience from the site. This might have a flash introduction or video or animation that renders it more slowly than other pages. Clients and new contacts will always ask, what’s your splash page? They can link to via mobile phone access and store for later review or full screen desktop or laptop visibility.

Creative use of new media motifs can make your site appeal to users who might otherwise transit onward without checking all the details out. The new trend in site entertainment has been leaning toward games and computer gaming for some time. A sprite (or minute graphic with oversize shadow graphic) might follow the cursor, for example. This would make anyone stop and consider the other details on the site.

Sometimes helpful reminders can make a site visitor appreciate a site more and lengthen clickthrough potential and length of visit. Remind your users to stand up and stretch, spank the keyboard (tilt it to free it of clutter, dust, and scraps), A unique scroll action design (that works), and/or a clickable app. Less ads rather than more can please users looking for entertainment.

These are basic rules for website design, yet so many webmasters overlook them in pursuit of a dream app or feature that they like. The emphasis on hit based design does not anticipate end users with more attractive sites to visit. Crafting unique features and allowing interactivity invites a site visitor to participate. Slamming doors in the form of 404 errors, dead links, and unsearchable key features drive their mouse clicks away.

The question every webmaster should be asking themselves is , “What can I do to marry my site to my user’s tastes and preferences today”. Then they should work on getting news of their site out. That is the starting ground for any successful website. It’s also a good way to make sure site reviews are positive instead of absent on the major site review and business feedback sites.