When is the Right Time to Redesign?

When is the Right Time to Redesign?

One should keep in mind that the perfect job should be done in perfect time to make it done perfectly. If you run a website, you have to meet a number of confusions that whether it is the right time to do a total redesign of the layout of your website or not. 

Here are some key points mention to guide you: 


Are you planning to redesign just for the sake of it? If you agree, it is not yet the right time to do redesign. Remember that a redesign is meant for a specific purpose. If you are not sure to change the get up of your site, be sure that your current design bears a specific purpose that you might not have a clean conception about it and that will make you to lose that function if you want a redesign. Again if you think that your website bears the same design since long time, then you will be in your high time to make a redesign. The lastly if you never want your visitors to leave your website without having a glance at your content just of its old fashioned concept as no redesign is made upon it and if you are suffering from it then you have to go through the below mentioned steps. If this is your case, here are some points to go through them before you do a redesign. 

To redesign your website is just like performing plastic surgery on it in order to give it a new style. Is your website is losing its present identity and view and your regular visitors are unable to recognize your new design at the first glance? If this is your case then there is a chance where you might have a risk of losing the audience as they get confused by thinking they have landed on the wrong page. Therefore, it is very important that you retain a specific characteristic feature similar to the layout of the former layout. You should have specific symbol as the logo of your site which will be followed for redesign and will remain unchanged even after redesign. 

To be in safe side, put a poll on your website with an option for your visitors to vote whether the site need redesign or not and choose the majority to make yourself justified for your action. 

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