Tips for maintaining a user friendly website

We know that user friendly website maintenance cause liabilities for developer/owner forever it wants website to exist. Time and effort is needed to make sure that every part of it is perfect part of every website. Hopefully test it thoroughly and make sure it’s wonderful for your visitors. However, over time website becomes outdated and not maintained. It can be like a backward. We know that every user-friendly website was created; developers and users didn’t have a key phrase for describing well-made websites. They described each feature that made the website so easy to use. Here are some important maintaining tips for user friendly websites.

Test contact form:

We know that every visitor enter a contact form on their website and make sure it works properly using captcha; make sure that it is readable. Certainty this is the opportunity to look previous contacts from your form and it could be added in a category and makes it more usable.

Edit Content:

We know that proofread is one of the most important things for every website, and make sure that every website content doesn’t have any spelling errors. This is especially important for you to add new content in the last month. Make everything more breef and which can edit all out; try and take 10% of new content away.

Check for Broken Icons and Images:

Go through every page to make sure all images are perfect. The images are supposed to be and are still rendering correctly. Make sure that if they are supposed to link to something external, that links are still working, always check and see that an image would work better in the last month.

Check broken links:

Make sure that every page does not contain any broken links. They are supposed to be and are still rendering correctly. Always check if all links are active and working; whether it is internal or external. If they are to link something external, that is properly working. Check and see that link would work better. Check that old links are still redirecting to relevant content. If they aren’t, then you can either remove them or link them to another site that is more useful to you and your users.

Check your website search logos:

If a website makes use of search and it should have access to the search logs, information about people are looking for on website. This information is like buried treasure: use these logs to guide how you’re presenting content on website. A person always searching for something that’s on home page could be more noticeable. Keep in mind that a well-architected site is iterative.

Encourage Feedback:

Website offers way to communicate out of the way with customer, by adding an interactive element that can encourage engagement and feedback. A brief customer survey or poll could be good way for finding out exactly what customer thinks about you.

Social sharing:                  

Social bookmarking allows visitors to share information with their contacts on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Every website needs to be robust enough to integrate social media like Twitter and business blogs.

Test recent browsers:

We know that browsers change and upgrade almost every time. Make sure web site works in the old and new iterations of browsers like IE 6, IE 7, IE 8, FireFox and Safari. It may be a point to test a new one and obscure browser, each and every month to make sure that website is accessible to everyone. Always try to make something like Browser Shots to view website in several browsers at once.

Linking to the Home Page from Interior Pages:

Each and every page of a website is an active link back to their front page; this is something recommended to keep users from getting lost too deep in website. The standard here is to have the logo or address for website in the top left corner and to have that link back to the front or index page. Take a moment to double check on its placement and also verify whether it is working properly or not.

RSS Feed:

A neat and tidy sign up for an RSS feed button is now working. The content on the website must be double checked while adjusting every setting to make sure the right information is being pulled in. RSS Feed is an attractive option for users, it always keep the website with up to date content their favorite websites’ content. Make sure that it is noticeable and not an eyesore. Then, test it out for to see if the signups are working. It will also notice that content will look on RSS Feed Readers. At the same time, check the right information about the people that sign up.

Website image and design overhaul:

Make sure that the website look engaging by new images or a design overhaul. A visitor enters on homepage; they make a decision about to how explore the website further within a couple of seconds. That means it does not have long time to grab their attention. If website feels unloved and neglected, then their potential customers will treat it. It act as a facelift with some new images or a design overhaul and offer more attention to shower on website. It will make website to engage its visitors more time.

Website Updation:

Ensure that you update your web content regularly to continue its life on your website. Make sure that you do regular Updation on the website, during few days or weeks maybe. If the content hasn’t changed for months, then stop delay and get some new content on there today. It can be a news or a blog section. The content should be easy to update and quick to refresh. Timetable should be kept in every few hours or weeks to tell customers what’s new in the website world and as a result website will enjoy a whole new lease of life.

Effective communication:

Take a good, hard look at your content. There’s a big difference between ‘reads well’
on a word document to ‘works well’ as a website. Keep ideal client in mind and re-write copy just like talking directly to them. It will find messages to become more effective.

Website optimization:

Search engine optimized content may have the most splendid website in the whole World Wide Web. No-one can find it; you’ve got yourself a problem. Make sure Google-friendly search terms in copy and it will shoot up the search rankings.

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