Website design is for a lot more than making your site look prettier than a twenty dollar whore. Adult website design or any affiliate content site design should do a number of things for you:

Represent

By represent, I mean reinforce the subject matter of your website.

A good website design will communicate to  visitors that they are in the right place as soon as they arrive. This is the part that most people think about when they think design. This is the colours, the patterns, the imagery, the logo. This is generally he process of dolling up your site to look prettier than a twenty dollar whore.

Be User Friendly

Your design is the only thing that’s gonna help your visitors find their way around your website. This means that it needs to be easy to use. Your visitors are probably at your site to watch videos. You need to make it easy to find the ones they want to watch. This means highly visible category links, suggested next videos easy search etc. The easier it is for them to find videos they like, the longer their going to stick around and the longer you have to try and convert them.

Make You Money

The design can help you make money. In the design you need to lay out consistent, highly visible links to your affiliate sites. This is where you make your money, so I don’t have to tell you that this is a damn important part of the design.

Help You Rank

A well planned design will  will actually help you get better rankings for your adult website in the search engines. This means that your design has been built to leave ample opportunity to do proper on page content optimization.

So What Can You Do?

Well I’ll tell you what I did! I sat down with a pen and paper and drew up some wire frames of how I want my site to work. This is the first step. Let’s call it planning! Click here to read part 2 in this thrilling series – Design Matters Part 2 – Planning Your Adult Website Design!