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Web Design Engineered for End Users and Search Engines

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How to be a good Web Design Engineered for End Users and Search Engines

Search engineers optimization is a new trend in digital world since it has become a well-known strategy in the last 3-4 years. Due to this, SEO still sounds new in many business owners which as a result requires web developers and especially designers to adjust their works with it. If you are a designer who needs to deal with SEO, you better read and apply each point below onto your work.

  • Design elements for SEO and Users

There are two things that you should keep in mind when it comes to website development, they are the end user and search engine. It’s almost impossible to find a website developer who is also a master of SEO and user interface best practices, so we have identified essential design.

  • Define Clear Page Hierarchy and Structure

Having a messy website is a so much confusing thing for your end user, it is like you are walking into a store where everything is a mess and it’s hard to find what you want. Therefore, creating a simple website map, which can help the user identifies main pages, and design around the customer will make your website becomes an orderly digital place where information is easy to find.

One of the solutions for this problem is to develop a website with a clearly defined site map. A site map is a visual image of all the website’s pages and subpages which many developers usually call it as a family tree. It describes the top level navigation pages. Remember that the top level pages should always be the most pages with the best information for users and search engines like home, services, industries served, about, contact, and resources pages.

  • Everyone Likes Responsive Design

It is an open secret that Google and many other search engines love responsive design more than non-responsive one. This is because every user wants to interact with the responsive one and tend to leave a site that won’t display properly which cause search engines are vying for serving the best results one to each other.

  • Consistency Builds Credibility

A good branding is the only way to build a good credibility in design world. You can use images, headers, sub headers, images, graphics, forms, buttons, and footers to convey the same terminology which will help your users easily read and navigate your website. While consistency in design means that your overall images, buttons, graphics and colors should represent the overall brand and values.

3 Ways to Turn the Unresponsive Design into the Responsive One

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3 ways to roll out a responsive redesign

It goes without saying that every website becomes responsive so that it will be more convenient for mobile users. In fact, it will be easier for many web developers and web designers to develop a responsive website from the beginning rather than to develop it from the existing one, since creating unresponsive website into responsive website is more difficult. In fact, for some people the idea to turn unresponsive site into more responsive is like building castles in the air? But don’t worry as actually, there are better ways to go about it than others. Below are some points that you can follow:

  1. Responsive Retrofit

It seems like the pigs can fly If you want to make a site becomes responsive instantly. However, you can make it becomes more plausible if you have a componentized backend already in place, it could quickly retrofit its existing desktop site. In fact, it can help you pulling off a responsive redesign within two months.

  1. Parallel Beta

Like the old saying that two heads are bigger than one, therefore you should do parallel beta to make sure that you have the same agreement between you and your client. In fact, some companies want users to be able to test out a responsive design and then return to the ‘classic’ version of the site. Besides, through the parallel beta you will get lots of user feedback which will make your project result more satisfying for both sides.

  1. Mobile-only Responsive

An existing m-dot site can be used as a sandbox for rolling out a responsive design in stages. The Guardian and the BBC delivered their responsive sites to smartphone and tablet users first, before the desktop site, so you can also follow this step. However, it will be better if you keep your eyes on both of them, since you do not want to have a site that is responsive in mobile but not in desktop, for example if your users shrink the window on desktops, it would not act responsive where all the elements would stay where they are in mobile. This will make your visitors have less credibility on you.