Thursday, September 25, 2008

How to Design Your Website For Social Interaction

With the technological advances of multi-media components there is no reason why any website should not have complete social interaction. Some of the best techniques for a socially interactive website include:

• Blogs-A blog, short for the original phrase 'weblog' can be used for anything from an online diary to showcase your personality to the world that visits your website and allows them to comment and talk with you, to a highly developed method of communicating daily insights to products and services you offer on your website without the need to constantly change actual web pages.

• Forums-If you have a lot of issues to discuss, or a subject with a lot of different aspects a forum is a magnificent way to offer interaction with your visitors concerning all aspects of your website's subject matter.

• Chat rooms-Once the most popular of all of the interaction methods, this option has fallen a bit out of favor since it requires active attendance. Where blogs and forums can provide a source of ongoing communication even when the site owner and other people involved with the site are not in attendance, a chat room requires more than one person being active at a specific time. The best way to employ a chat room is to set up and list a schedule of when someone will be available to chat. This along with a schedule of particular subjects can make a chat room very attractive to visitors because it feels so much more personal.

Other methods that can be used to design your website for social interaction are things such as videos, music, and other entertaining media devices.

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