Web Education for Those Seeking a Web Presence

What should you look for when seeking a web development company to help you with your next project? Here are a few things to keep in mind as you are planning your web site.

Identifying audience Issues and Addressing them

Before moving forward the web designer (or web developer team) need to know exactly what sort of audience a certain site has. By identifying difficulties they can make significant changes to suit that specific audience and make the web site more accessible to them.

A report on wellstyled.com states that only 85% of the population has what we would call normal vision. People with visual difficulties may have any of the following impairments:

• May be colorblind.
• May be completely blind or partially sighted.
• May suffer from disabilities preventing them from reading or comprehending text properly (for example dyslexia).
• May not be able to read small text, this could affect a large segment of your web site visitors

Users Are Scanners

If you think a typical user will read the entire content of your Web pages, you are wrong. No matter how much useful information you put into a Web page, a visitor will only spend a few seconds scanning it before they decide whether to leave it or to stay. If you want a visitor to read your text, be sure to make your point in the very first sentence of the page. After that you should try to keep them occupied with short paragraphs and interesting new headers all the way down the page.

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