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5 Tips to Achieve Minimalism in Your Web Design

The present online trend has a simple design that makes a website look attractive and appealing. This type of designs is known as a minimalist one that can be informative for every user who visits the website. The following are the five tips that can be used to create a minimalist website design.

Tip 1. Minimal Clutter and Maximum Focus

Many new websites have their focus on a mix of many things and they even cover up the unimportant elements and information. This kind of problem mostly happens with the first time designers who would like to show their skills by displaying many widgets and other things on the web page. Identify the things that every visitor would search for in a website and work on it to create a minimalist website.

Tip 2. Stay on the Upper Fold

Many people have the habit of not scrolling down the page to read the whole content. The visitors would always like to read the content on the first page of the website and above the fold. The web designers can improve the overall effectiveness of a website by keeping all the main elements the most needed call-to-action above the fold on a web page. Reduce the height of the header by inserting the sign-up forms and the buttons above the first fold in your web page.

Tip 3. Bring down the Page Count

If you want your website to be an informative one, then you must bring down the page count so that the visitor would not confuse with the number of pages in your website. Too many pages in your website can mislead the visitors. While writing down the content for a website, always write from your visitors’ point of view, so that you can stick to the point and write the main content short. Also a paragraph of content should be in five or six lines, so that the visitors can read them quickly.

Tip 4. Minimal colors for the best quality

The most common mistake that many new designers make while creating a website is the colors. The main key to create a quality design is to limit the colors in your website. If you are about to create a texture, then make use of the same color in different shades. Making use of too many colors on a website can hurt a human eye and the visitors can easily get distracted. Always choose two main colors that can be added everywhere in your website. If you are about to bring in a third main color to your website, then you are about to distract the visitors’ eyes from reading the content on your website. Follow different shades of the two main colors to create a minimalist website design.

Tip 5. The 80/20 rule

The 80/20 rule can help you to simplify the overall website design and pushes the focus on the main content of your website. Identify the content on your website that has the focus on the topic so that the visitors can easily read the content without getting distracted.

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