Friday, February 17, 2012

Web Design Effect - Use of Background Music Makes Website Really Attractive

Every website owner wants to develop a website that attracts every visitor. In every means a visitor has to feel that his time is not wasted visiting a site. And in accordance to this thought the site owners are ready to do anything. Among many a web designs effect, background music is one of the effective ways to make a visitor feel at home.

While working as a freelance graphic designer, I come across situations while clients ask how among many a web design effect, background music can be a good choice to make websites soothing. I advise them to use background music properly so that it can really make a website engaging to the visitors. Here are some advantages of using background music:

  • Welcoming approach: In few websites you would find an ‘intro’ with background music for welcoming the visitors to the site. It is really nice to include the background music (the rhythm must be matching with the nature of the business).Having background music as one of the parts of design and development effects in your site is always good.
  • Helpful in creating environment: While a good choice of background music welcomes the visitors, it does work in favor of creating a great environment in the website. Whatever the site is for product selling or providing services, good background music always acts as one of the great supplement of other design effects.
  • Supplements animations: In various cases we find the use of animations. Whether it is flash effects or others web design effects the background music would always make the animation effects livelier. Sometimes the music is indispensable part of animations.
  • A part of marketing efforts: In a few marketing efforts we find out the use of useful background music and that makes the initiative more appealing to the visitors or the viewers. But here we have to keep it reminded that the marketing efforts have to be matching with the web design effects.

Well, these are some of the advantages of using background music in websites. But here we have to keep it remembered that everybody may not like to listen to the music. So you should be careful in keeping the option to stop the music if a visitor feels irritated. Even there may be an option to select form the specified music. In this way mixed with other web design effects background music can really work good to keep the visitors stuck to a website. However at the time of selecting the designers or the developers do not forget to check his or her graphic design portfolio or development portfolio. If you choose best of people then you would get the best development and web design effects.

1 comments:

Unknown said...

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