1、 Simple web design makes content easier to "scan"
When there are not a lot of decorative elements on your website, the content becomes the protagonist, which is convenient for visitors to browse.
A survey shows that 79% of the respondents are only browsing a new page, and only 16% will read a page word for word. It is better to serve these visitors well and not offend them. By putting the content of the website in the front middle position, visitors can quickly browse what the content is. These visitors will think your website is very friendly and may come again next time.
2、 Simple web design and creation will be faster
If your website design is simple, the coding is also likely to be simple. Designing a website with simple layout, one or two page templates, and simple layout is much faster than designing a website with eight versions, complex layout, complex constraints, and coding background.
However, it should be noted that creating a website seems simple, but it is actually quite complicated. The goal is to keep the code as concise as possible. Sometimes, you just need to adjust the margin or padding of some elements, or move them slightly, which may greatly simplify the code without having an obvious impact on the front-end design of the website.
3、 Simple code is easier to debug
If your code is concise, it will be easier to find bugs. Compared with the style sheet with only 30 attributes, if there are 300 different attributes, it will take you longer to find out which attributes are wrong.
From the beginning, we should seek ways to make the code concise. For example, combining some css attributes and definitions can make the stylesheet a whole and shorter. Merging style sheets or js files can also make the overall code of the website more concise.
4、 Smaller files mean less server space
As mentioned above, the files of simple websites are usually smaller than those of complex websites. This means that your website will take up less server space and bandwidth than other websites. Perhaps, for a website with only a few thousand visitors a month, this may not be a big deal, but for a website with more pages and website visitors, it is actually a huge savings.
Think about it, the image size on some minimalist pages may be less than 100KB, while some complex websites may sometimes reach 1MB. This means that the cost of your site is about 10 times the traffic of your simple site. If your site has a lot of content or visitors, it is meaningful to simplify your site and reduce the size of your site files.
5、 Simple web design makes the website easier to navigate
Simple websites have no redundant information. This helps navigation in two ways: usually, websites have fewer pages and columns; Or the design of a website is usually clean and tidy, making it easier to find navigation elements. The simple design of the website is a good solution to the problem of navigation usability.
Here are some suggestions on simple web design for navigation:
1. Use only one main navigation menu
2. Ensure the consistency of navigation in a website;
3. Do not use the pull-down menu as a navigation. The pull-down menu is easy to hide some messy menus;
Instead, force yourself to incorporate some navigation elements into your website design. In general, this will make navigation more concise.
6、 Simple web design makes pages load faster
Simple web design generally produces smaller files, and smaller files load faster. In addition, if you keep the code simple and concise, you are unlikely to call multiple stylesheets, or a large number of JavaScript files, or other content that increases the number of HTTP requests on the website. Faster loading and response speed improves the user experience of the website.
