Website Design

This week I learned a lot about how I should go about designing my website. The most important things I learned from my study and research is that the site needs to be simple and clean. There are a lot of crowded websites out there that take a long time to load, don't look appealing, and aren't easy to understand and navigate. I don't want things to be hidden deep within my site so that customers have to dig to find what they are looking for. The best example site that I found was BarberPopShop.com. They are a local business in Rexburg and their site is one of the nicest that I have seen. I didn't have to dig for what I wanted, everything was understandable to read, and I was able to get in and out quickly while still making a purchase. The website itself made me want to be a return customer, regardless of the service or products provided. I want to design my site after theirs, with only four pages, good colors, and an easy to understand format.

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