What Makes A Good Website?

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chance to get me into the rest of the site.

The newer sites these days come with splash pages, advertising to you what you can expect on the inside, but like all advertising can become its own undoing by either chasing you away in the first place or misrepresenting what you are going to find there. So, a good splash page has its advantages if used sensibly by keeping it simple and graphic, just hope all the viewers will have high bandwidth.

As flashy graphics go, flash, for me personally is the way to go. If the net keeps progressing as it does at the moment, by the end of this cycle of web design, all the sites will have some type of flash feature. The quality of image, smoothness of movement and the interactivity makes it visually pleasing to use and so makes your site more desirable. I have been to sites where there are barely any content but just because it was so good to look at and very interactive, it got me to stick around for minutes, which are lifetimes more than what I even spend on a good, normally made site. (volkswagen.com’s new golf and polo pages)
For the time being, while all the bandwidth and processors catch up with the possibilities that are available, I am happy with a site that has at least clear, noise free graphics. There is nothing as bad as going to a site, that would probably not been so bad if you looked at its other features and content, have it not been for the badly captured images. Poor scans or substandard software used in creating a logo or head of the page can really break it in the first second, forcing me to click on the back button.
Colour coding is also something that should not be left to the interior decorators. Colours that make your eyes hurt is never a good way to keep people glued to your site. I’m a blue person, so soft shades of blue, maybe with a texture is winner. Also, you can’t go to wrong with an interesting shade of grey. As long as it is not overpowering the whole si...