Design Smarter 6 Web Design Challenges and Expert Solutions

Description

Ugghhh! Nothing in this world is more tiring than designing a website. Web designers, don’t be offended, you guys are professionals, and you know how to do it. But for people who have just started their business, or small business owners who want to design a website on their own, it’s not at all easy. Even for professionals it becomes frustrating sometimes because of those web design challenges, oh my god! Annoying! Why can’t it be a bit simple?

Sigh... sorry just got frustrated up there. So, where were we? Yeah, web design challenges, it’s very tricky, we swear. If you take care of the aesthetics, the speed slows down, and if you want to add information, oh no, the content is too much now, it’s very confusing.  Now, we realize why our boss hired the specialized team for everything. Love you boss!

So, to not let you suffer from this confusion and frustration, today, we will talk about the 6 most common website design challenges that will definitely occur and how you can simply overcome them. Hehe, you’re welcome, would you like to give us your business share? No? Okay, sorry.

Website Responsiveness

The first challenge you would come across is responsiveness. So, what’s a website responsiveness, it’s the ability for a website to run smoothly and efficiently on all kinds of devices, be it mobile, desktop, laptop, tablet, etc. While serving clients, we have come across many of these cases. Absolutely amazing websites they had, but the moment we used to open them on smartphones, total blunder.

Remember, 79% of people make purchases online through their mobile phones. So, if you want good sales, your website should be responsive. 

Solution: Adapt a mobile-friendly approach from the very beginning, it will help to adjust easier on other devices. CSS media queries are great for screen adjustments and fluid images, flexible grids help maintain visual consistency. In the end, don’t forget to test on various devices and make changes.

Aesthetics & Functionality

Yes, every other person in this world is aesthetic. But it’s not good for websites though. Creating aesthetically pleasing yet well-performing websites is one of the most common web design challenges. The moment you add the visuals, transitions, etc., the site load speed will increase. What’ll happen next, it will take ages for the site to open, and the viewers will quickly switch to other sites.

Solution: Keep the UI design simple, no need to be overly aesthetic. Simple is the new aesthetic, okay? Try to follow a theme, and use white space to make it more organized. Make features, menu bar, and buttons visible by color contrast. No more transitions, no more extra images. Let users breathe and get what they want and for that, you need to make the UI easy to navigate not confusing, and to do that, you gotta keep things minimal.

Load Times

Do you know what factors affect your website’s loading speed? It can be a couple of things like too many HTTP requests, long codes, heavy UI, unnecessary heavy images, wrong settings, and many more. So, to increase loading speed and make people stay on your website you need to maintain all these things. 

Solution: Though it seems like a lot of work, it’s not that tough if you keep an eye from the very beginning, and by beginning we mean the initial development phase. Write short and crisp codes, compress images, and set lazy loading for them. This will only load the images when it reaches the time that a user scrolls to them. Also, make sure that the UI design is minimal. That's it, you'll do great.

SEO-Friendly Design

Do you have any knowledge of SEO-friendly website development? It means developing a website with all friendly SEO components in mind. This means that, from the beginning, all factors that favor making a website friendly to search engines for ranking should be included. Is this a common web design challenge? Yes. Can you overcome it? Swiftly. 

Remember, everything that improves the user experience is SEO-friendly. Speed load time, UI, codes, SSL certificate, everything is a part of SEO too. Search engines like Google prefer to rank sites that look good, perform well, secure, and provide valuable information.

But there are some other practices as well like meta tags, meta description, content optimization, etc.

Solution: To drive organic traffic on your website, you need to focus on on-page SEO and development SEO. Follow all the above-mentioned points and spend dedicated time writing consistent blogs, good meta tags, descriptions, image alt text, etc. It can help you drive traffic in just a few months. 

Content Management

Content management is one of those web design challenges where people make the most blunders. You know, it’s pretty easy to write blogs, add links and boom post them. But when it comes to writing content for website pages where each section is limited. You gotta explain everything in those pre-determined words. Too much content can distract users and make them feel overwhelmed. 

Solution: Try to write crisp content for pages and support them with relevant images. But wait, this is not it, you are supposed to organize them as well, create search bars, filters, sections anything that can help users find a specific content copy easily. WordPress is the best CMS, even a non-technical person can use. Try it!

Incorporating Accessibility

Have you heard of alt text? Do you know why they are used? Yes, SEO is a reason but they also help blind people read images. A good website should be accessible to all, even people who can’t see, use a mouse, write queries, etc. Is it challenging? A bit. 

Solution: Go through Web Content Accessibility Guidelines to ensure your website has all the elements. Use alt text, voice search keywords on your website, and proper color contrasts on the UI, etc. Trust us, it’ll help them.

Conclusion

Don’t cry! Don’t think that these problems are gonna be the end of this world. It just appears to be a big problem when people ignore it. So, don’t be like them, play smart and make a list of these challenges and complete one step at a time. Don’t care if it takes long, good things take time, remember?