Ystradgynlais is a town on the banks of the River Tawe in southwest Powys, Wales, and is the second largest in the principal area and county of Powys. Wikipedia
Population: 8,092 (2011)
Ystradgynlais
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Ystradgynlais, UK
If you want to make a good first impression attract people to your site and build your brand well your websites design is really important. While there are all sorts of things that will factor into the success of your website your major concern is the design. So what exactly should you focus on to make sure your web design is flawless? Have a look at some of the things that you need to remember quite a lot.
Turning 404 Pages in Your Favour: A 404 Page comes up when someone types in an incorrect url when trying to reach your site indicating that the page doesn't exist. Many website owners don't realize the connection between 404 pages and smart web design. What makes this important is that your 404 page at least the default one is a useless page where your visitors cant learn/buy/sign up for anything. What you should do is transform the default 404 page which is essentially a dead end into a menu where the visitor can easily find the part of your website where you want them. This one step can get you lots of visitors who would have left otherwise perhaps assuming your site was not active. As long as visitors know how to find your site from your 404 page you can create any kind of design you want.
Other very important aspects when designing your page pertain less to graphics and more to legal disclaimers and privacy statements. We recommend you find legal text that is genuine and written by a lawyer to use in these situations. People want to feel protected online too just like you need to protect yourself from frivolous legal hassles. Besides that search engines like Google require you to have an updated privacy policy on your site without which it simply wont rank.
If your site will be for content then make sure your content is the centerpiece of each page. We would always tell people to forget using Flash because it is just a big whistle people like to blow. The use of Flash may be acceptable for some kinds of sites but it is a judgment call so we will not say never use it.
There are speed of loading issues to think about as well if you are really determined to have Flash on your site. A Flash splash page is somewhat outdated and honestly you do not see them used very often. There are a lot of people who prefer to avoid dealing with Flash completely on webpages so the external link to content may be a good idea.
Of course we have only talked about a few important topics concerning website design and there is much more out there. You can always make changes to your site design but it is generally not a good idea to make large changes.