Simple Website Design Principles for Internet Marketing

Hi Everyone,
An essential element of the success of any Internet Marketing campaign is the ability to not only generate traffic to your Website, but capturing the interest of the visitor once he's on your site. The are a number of techniques that the best Internet Marketing Strategies employ to ensure that their Website Design encourages a user to linger.

To a great degree all Internet marketing strategies - article marketing, blogging, search engine optimization and email marketing, depend on the quality of your Website design to
close the sale.

As you design and continually refine your Website, maintain constant focus on what you are trying to accomplish, what message you are trying to communicate. All the principles
in the world are worthless without vigilance to your ultimate
objective.

Here are 5 fundamental rules of thumb to observe to make sure your Website performs well :

1. Do not use splash pages

2. Do not use excessive banner advertisements

3. Have a simple and clear navigation

4. Have a clear indication of where the user is

5. Avoid using audio on your site