18 effective ways to make website attractive and professional

People always tend to like good-looking things. If you want to attract more visitors to your website, it should be both attractive and professional.

Some tips can help you to generate the best ideas to make improvements to your website. I tried to discuss everything regard on this.

Effective ways to make a website attractive and professional

1. Prepare Website’s Wireframe:

A website wireframe is the blueprint of your website. It is just a prototype of a webpage it doesn't contain any color or graphics just a plan of your website and how it will be designed. You can use paper and pencil or you can use Photoshop or any other graphic software to do it. 

2. Keep design balanced:

By keeping your website design balanced you can give it a professional look. Balanced design refers to the combination of a website layout with its contents. It can be color, graphics, structure, and can be many things. For example, you may see e-commerce websites are different from blogging websites. To attract an audience it is very essential to maintain a healthy balance.

3. Use grids in designing websites:

Grids can help you to make your website look good by separating it into different parts vertically and horizontally. By separating your website into different rows and columns you can improve the navigation system and readability, which makes the user experience better. You can use bootstrap or many other CSS frameworks to do this, but you can do it in your custom CSS stylesheet.

4. Set base colors:

It is not a good idea to make your website colorful by providing random colors on it. The color defines a lot about your website. It goes without saying how important to set perfect colors to make your website look better. Try to set a maximum of two or three base colors that go with your website. Let's see which color defines what.

5. Focus on graphics:

Website graphics refers to the visual appearance of your website which can make a great impact on the user experience. Graphics can have an entertaining, educational, or emotional impact on the user. Some examples of graphics are maps, photographs, illustrations, family trees, diagrams, blueprints, typography, infographic, schematics, charts, and a combination of colors.

6. Improve your website’s typography:

Typography is the creative presentation of text on your webpage. You can make it more attractive by using CSS creatively and by implementing different types of good-looking fonts. Make fonts perfect in size and color. Most websites are based on highly text-based content, so it is not necessary to mention again how important it is to make a website look good using typography.

7. Make all elements connected:

You should mesh all your website elements with each other. For example, images and icons should be relevant to the text. Miss-matching the elements can have a bad user experience and can make your website visually wired. 

8. Choose the right fonts:

Using the perfect font family is so much important to make a website look professional. So take some time to choose a better font family and test it again and again in a different browser. All browsers do not support all fonts. So be careful to implement it on your website. Choose fonts, which are easier to read and also look good. 

9. Use white space:

It is not worthy to fill up your whole webpage with lo lots of content. Spaces make it easy to separate your webpage into different sections. And another vital reason to keep white space is it makes users focused on exact content. Whitespaces always make a website looks cleaner and more vibrant. 

10. Use images of perfect size:

Using big photos is another good idea to make a website look better. But it is not always a good idea to use big photos.  For example, you should use small photos for thumbnails. Inside your web content, should use a larger image. Because images can tell thousands of words and larger images can define invisible words well.

11. Include social media:

Showing a few different small social icons on a website not only improves website visibility but also enhances users' reliability. But it is not a good idea to use lots of social icons on your webpage. Some online platforms offer plugins with a bunch of social icons. I don't recommend using such plugins because they can make a bad impact on website loading speed. It is a better idea to create social icons on your own.

12. Device optimization:

It is very important to make a responsive website layout to make your website look good on every device. If you don't optimize your website for every device, then your website layout will be crisped on particular devices. Optimize your website for devices using a CSS stylesheet. If you want to do it without any hassle then simply use the bootstrap CSS framework.

13. Test Browser Support:

Sorry to say that all browsers don't support all of your designs on your website. So you have to check it manually before your user gets hassled. You can use vendor prefix on your CSS stylesheets for particular browsers and it works fine. But you must have to check browser support manually, at least check major browsers.

14. Widen the Footer Area:

Widen footer area can enhance your website's visuality. You can also make a better user experience by implementing essential links on it. But do not use this place to share a lot of stuff. You can add your social icons here by linking to your account.

15. Responsive Images:

Perfect images always make website page quality good. But you have to ensure that your images are responsive or not. Actually, images cannot be responsive by themselves, so you should set some CSS codes to make them optimized for every device. 

16. Image Box Shadows:

A small gray shadow can change your image's looks a lot. Sometimes image background gets mixed with the website background. To prevent this problem you can also use shadows around images. 

17. Hover effect:

Perfect hover effects always give a good visuality of a website. You can implement a hover effect on linking texts, navigation bars, images, and many other places.

18. Easy navigation:

Use the navigation menu on your website header and you can also use the side navigation bar on your webpage. Make sure what users are looking for is enough close to them. 

Final thoughts

If you are running your website to make money then you must have to make it professional. Keep your visitors and make them come back again and again. It is not so easy to make a website perfect in every aspect, take time and strategy to do it. Be focused on your goal, and let your business focus on you.