Website Features Realtors® Should Avoid
Realtors® take note: these website modules seem cool at first, but they sure can be annoying.
Websites have changed over the years to become more and more central to running an online business — and so websites have become an important part of a Realtor’s marketing toolkit. If you’re making your first-ever website you might want to use every cool feature you can find, but this can be precarious. As the style trends evolve and technologies innovate, some features become less of a benefit and more of a hinderance.
Three Features Your Website Could Do Without
#1 — The Hover Drop Down Menu
For a long time, this was the go-to for keeping a main menu short and keeping a wealth of links close at hand. This was a little counterintuitive though. The truth is most users are annoyed when dropdowns or pop-ups obstruct their browsing without intention. Also, hover menus force a user to have to move the mouse so precisely through the hover funnel if one wishes to not activate the next hover menu by accident.
A big problem with hover drop down menus are that they didn’t age well. Hover drop down menus worked fantastic — okay, good enough — when the only input method was a mouse cursor. As soon as touchscreen mobile phones came on the scene, it became much harder to adapt these hover mechanisms to fingers on a screen. As a result: mobile users won’t be able to access your hover menu and navigate to the content they are seeking.
Let’s move on to the next two ‘features’ to avoid…
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