{"id":40,"date":"2006-11-04T09:06:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T03:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/40.htm"},"modified":"2020-04-05T12:10:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T06:40:24","slug":"simplicity-in-web-design-is-what-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/simplicity-in-web-design-is-what-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplicity in Web Design is What Works!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The results are out: if you want a web page to be effective, don&#8217;t confuse the visitor with columns to the left and right; also, even if you have only a single column on your page, don&#8217;t pepper it with links, put only the ones that are essential for that page.<\/p>\n<p>If you think a web page should be &#8220;pretty looking&#8221; with plenty of graphics and &#8220;comprehensive&#8221; with a gazillion links, then you&#8217;re making a fatal error.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to listen to some absolutely <b>fantastic <\/b>experimental results on this from a renowned authority on the subject, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingexperiments.com\/images\/multifiles\/teleconf-choice-vs-simplicity-10-04-06.wma\">catch this audio file<\/a> from <b>MarketingExperiments.com<\/b>. The host is famous web author Nick Usborne, who works closely with the founder of <b>MarketingExperiments.com<\/b>, Dr. Flint McGlaughlin.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, when we design a web site, we will push hard for uncluttered design. And we are not the only ones thinking this way. Most of Google&#8217;s new sites follow these guidelines. Look at <a href=\"http:\/\/groups-beta.google.com\/intl\/en\/googlegroups\/tour3\/page3.html\">Google Groups Beta<\/a> for an example!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results are out: if you want a web page to be effective, don&#8217;t confuse the visitor with columns to the left and right; also, even if you have only a single column on your page, don&#8217;t pepper it with links, put only the ones that are essential for that page. If you think a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-web-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5763,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/5763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}