How important is Website Design

The design of a website is very important. We focused on this this week and on ways to improve a site. Putting too much on a site can be distracting. Putting too little can make it hard to see what the website is about. It was interesting to see what everyone thought made a great site. One thing to remember is to avoid putting too many buttons at the top of the site. Our brain can process 3-5 things at a time and more than that will either get missed or overwhelm the user. I like when things are blocked into sections. I think it makes the site easier to navigate. That is the key to a good design. The user needs to go where they want and you can design it so they go where you want as well. Another cool feature we learned was putting paypal buttons on the site customers could pay with credit cards.