How to Grab your Readers Attention with these Web Design Techniques   by Johnathon Black

in Web Design    (submitted 2011-08-28)

In building a web page, you can experiment with various techniques and styles that will instantly draw the attention of your readers to your website. You can work around with different typography and font to get the right message across. Other ideas that you can explore with are different images, layout, animation, etc for added impact. Here are tried and tested ways to make them immediately notice what you have to offer on your page.

The most common way to seize the reader's attention is to change the font size of your banner headline. Before you proceed to modifying your headlines, take into consideration some of these pointers first. First, is it really such an important announcement that you have to make? If you are posting an all out spring clearance sale, it might not be that significant news to others. You can just adjust your font size to be moderate in size so that it does not seem to overboard other people. Second, what is the normal typeset size that you use on your page? When you compare it to the current size to the font size you intend to adjust, it would be a great way to check if it makes a big difference. For example, if your current font size for your headline is 15pt, changing it to just 20pt would only be a subtle change and it will not make the change in size too obvious. Third, you can also prepare in advance what type of announcements will make your text increase in size. Once you have decided which events will correspond to a specific typeset size, it will be much easier to follow the standards you have set. Aside from this, you can also change other qualities like family, color, style and weight. Making your text bold or adding a bright color puts more emphasis to it.

In addition, there are still other ways to catch your readers apart from changing your font. You can also post images to get more visual impact. Adding a picture related to your announcement would be a great way to accompany your major headline. Besides this, you can rearrange your layout to give way to your special announcement. Tweaking your navigation can be a refreshing change and definitely draws readers into your site. Lastly, web designers also display flash animation and utilize their skills to create special flash pages in order to make the website come alive and more interesting for readers.

These techniques are not meant to be used at the same time. It is best to choose one technique for the appropriate situation to make your site stand out.

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