One of the most important aspects of any relationship is the long-lasting impression created within the first 30 seconds.

If you care about the way you look or the way you speak to your peers, then you understand the importance of your image. If you cannot manage to keep your visitor interested in your website within the first 30 seconds, you may have lost that visitor for good.

Welcome them, motivate them, and encourage them to hang out for a bit.

There are many things that can be done to ensure a perfect first impression. Among them all, caring about detail is the most important. A professional website designer knows how to position content carefully, how to choose graphics and colors wisely, and how to create a clean-cut structure that makes people think wow.

People are attracted to structure and organization. An easy-to-understand presentation of content is absolutely necessary. This inquires bold, underlined and appropriately-sized font, simple animations that interact with visitors' mouse activity, and subliminal highlights of how the visitor will benefit from staying.

Websites, at first glance, should explain exactly what they are all about. If websites leave visitors struggling to figure them out, the visitors will quickly divert their attention to another site. And you don't want to lose a visitor to a top competitor just because they had to squint to see a picture or the font is hard to read.

There is a lot involved in web design, more than putting some words and images on a page online. Web design is about artistry, creativity, human psychology and requires successful technical functionality and user interactivity.