Tips for making your website images count (infographic)
Last Update: June 07, 2012
Placement of website images matters
Personally the general appearance of website pages have always been important to me. As a visitor or potential customer I''ve always been aware that if I don't like the visual look of a website, I will leave immediately. Colours, type and size of font and images all have a huge impact on me - let alone what is actually written.
My best friend tells me that I'm extreme and very fussy. I prefer to say that I'm creative and visual appearance is important to me - but I suspect on occasions that she's right.
However - this week I've realised that I'm not entirely mad and I'm far from being alone in being affected by such things. But what I hadn't realised as a website owner just how getting some of these things wrong could affect your sales.
This week I've been doingf a little bit of research on website images and despite my own tastes I have been surprised and shocked by the possible impact they can have. So I've put together this infographic with some tips which I hope you may find useful.
As I'm just about to launch a new site promoting WA - I shall be putting this new found knowedge to good use and thinking very carefully about the images and captions I'm going to use.
I shall also be reviewing my coaching site - but as it has over 100 pages I am not just going to start changing all the images. Any changes need thinking about.
My advice - if you're going to make any changes to your own sites- proceed with care. It's not a rush job.
Personally the general appearance of website pages have always been important to me. As a visitor or potential customer I''ve always been aware that if I don't like the visual look of a website, I will leave immediately. Colours, type and size of font and images all have a huge impact on me - let alone what is actually written.
My best friend tells me that I'm extreme and very fussy. I prefer to say that I'm creative and visual appearance is important to me - but I suspect on occasions that she's right.
However - this week I've realised that I'm not entirely mad and I'm far from being alone in being affected by such things. But what I hadn't realised as a website owner just how getting some of these things wrong could affect your sales.
This week I've been doingf a little bit of research on website images and despite my own tastes I have been surprised and shocked by the possible impact they can have. So I've put together this infographic with some tips which I hope you may find useful.
As I'm just about to launch a new site promoting WA - I shall be putting this new found knowedge to good use and thinking very carefully about the images and captions I'm going to use.
I shall also be reviewing my coaching site - but as it has over 100 pages I am not just going to start changing all the images. Any changes need thinking about.
My advice - if you're going to make any changes to your own sites- proceed with care. It's not a rush job.
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lemuel
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Thank you. Indeed, this blog is very useful to me. I'm making some changes now to my fatlossassistant.com website using these principles. But I'm afraid I'll be back to ask questions again. :)
Labman_1
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I love the infographic style that yout are developing. Great skill and good information. I'm curious if the infographic information is available to Google as content or if it is just a picture to the search engines.
One problem. The grey that you used for the text is difficult for me to see. May just be me but I would use black.
One problem. The grey that you used for the text is difficult for me to see. May just be me but I would use black.
BIS
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Hi Craig
Thanks for the comments - I will certainly take on board what you say about the black. Interestingly enough - I've been using templates - which I have changed a lot but a lot of them seem to be preset with the dark grey rather than the black - but I'm glad you pointed it out.
Google wlll be reading it as a picture - but I can grab the search bots through header information and any other text.. I've noticed that most people don't just plump an infographic without some other text. I have some on my site ,which appear by themselves (bar header information), but then they are also linked to other pages.
Thanks for the comments - I will certainly take on board what you say about the black. Interestingly enough - I've been using templates - which I have changed a lot but a lot of them seem to be preset with the dark grey rather than the black - but I'm glad you pointed it out.
Google wlll be reading it as a picture - but I can grab the search bots through header information and any other text.. I've noticed that most people don't just plump an infographic without some other text. I have some on my site ,which appear by themselves (bar header information), but then they are also linked to other pages.
BIS
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Thanks Leata. Glad you enjoyed it. Believe me you're not the only one who needs things spelling out sometimes. I do too and I'm lucky that I'm finding by producing some infographics it's helping me to manage some of the key ideas I also need to learn about internet marketing.
Thanks for your support.
Beverley
Thanks for your support.
Beverley
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