Love at first site may be an elusive myth for the lovers, but it not the case with the websites. For the cittizens first impression is what matters. You can make the first impression once and to cut the first impression you get only a few seconds time.

So how to grab their attention? Read the article to learn the tricks.

Software can speed up the process, but they can not do the whole
Look and feel has lot to do with the website visitors. You get only one chance to get noticed and losing the chance means, you have lost a potential customer for ever.
So you can understand how the look and feel is important for traffic building. So why should you leave this all important task of visual effect to a mindless software? Apply your own sense of creativity to work on the visual side of your website.
Yes, the software can help you build functional pages with the tweak of your fingers; but by using your creative ingenious you can get the web pages that are functional, at the same time aesthetically pleasing too.

Subtle look is the in thing
The artist inside you may tempt you to experiment with alluring graphics; but believe me they only make your site look stuffy. Save them for the places where they are badly needed. The restrained use of the graphics will render a subtle and chic look to your site.

Loud colors – sore on your visitors’ eyes
A web designer has to practice lot of restraint while choosing the color scheme for his website; for a web designer, two basic colors-black and white-are the weapons for creating visual magic.
The other colors are generally reserved for the logos, banners, headings, links and so on. The designer should be cautious enough in handling other colors than simple black and white for background and fonts.

The visitors prefer the neat and clean look for the web pages
The web pages should look neat and clean; miles long banner ads, huge images that loads for indefinite times, graphics that strain the eyes of your visitors and their brains too may choke your visitors’ senses.
So be sensible enough to place the elements in a way so that they are not crammed against one another. A neat look will encourage the visitor to navigate through your pages; otherwise he will leave the page at the first opportunity.

Pay extra attention for building the Home page
How does it feel to stand before a well decorated front door of a house you are visiting for the first time? Doesn’t it feel warm and inviting?
The home page of your site is like the front door of a website and this entry point should be done up with extra care.
The front page must convey the essence of the site as a whole, but without being ostentatious.

You must be ruthless with all the things non-essential
Don’t overcrowd the site with the things that have nothing to do with the basic message of your site. Treat all the graphics, decorative borders, arrows, animations or icons that have no direct link with the basic goal of your website as non-essential and steer clear of them to maintain the slim and trim appearance of your site.

The above mentioned tips are simple, but they will allow you to build an impressive website with understated elegance— a website that lets the visitors have an effortless navigation though the website and compel them to come back over and over again.