When designing any website the designer has to consider that time is of great essence. The web design just has few seconds to create a long lasting impression on the mind of visitors. The conventional ways of making the web design have become so common that most of the times they fail to look unique. The designer has to be always on the lookout for ways to make the start pages look gorgeous and attractive. A bit of digging more in your creative mind can lead to unique and appealing start pages. This is needed just because first impression is not only the last impression but in this case a lasting impression.
Some of the main ways to enhance the attractiveness of the start pages are as follows.
1. The designers are now trying different ways to browse through the website without clicking any of the links.
2. The navigation can also be designed to be just based on icons. This type of navigation makes it easy for the visitor to access the various pages in the website and find out the information they want.
3. The start page can have various images. When the mouse is made to hover over the images the description appears on the screen.
4. The start page can be divided into 6 parts. Upon navigating through each part, the resultant web page appears as an image in the background.
5. If the text stripes are linked and then included in the start page, the website can become very unique and interesting.
6. The designer has to nowadays continuously experiment with various permutations and combinations available for designing the start page.
7. The minimal approach can also be adhered to make the start page attractive and simple.
8. There are many designers that make the maximum use of the pencil when sketching in the initial phase of web designing. Some designers have come out with novel ways of using the pencil. One way is to use the image of the pencil instead of the mouse pointer.
9. The navigation is designed to be presented in a sliding manner and a unique typography is used.
10. The start page can have some description of the various sections of the website.
11. The start pages can be made unique by including big tag clouds. This is one way of increasing the usability of the website.
12. If the website is offering a facility of online shopping the start page can be used to display all the products simultaneously. The online shopping can facilitate the visitor at choosing the product or service that he/she is interested in. The start page can be used to enhance the user friendliness of the website and the interactivity of the web design.
13. The text can be colored with three colors and given a textmarker-effect.
14. When designing a start page the designer needs to pay attention to small details too.
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