General Clinics: Learning to create amazing appointment scheduling sites
Imagine a scenario where you have a slight temperature or a small rash that you are worried about and you want to get it checked.
If you do not have a regular clinic that you normally visit, then the first place where you will check for a new one is the internet.
Moreover, when you do that, you are very likely to compare different clinics to each other.
This is where a spectacular appointment scheduling site comes to your rescue.
In scenarios like these, an impressive appointment scheduling site not only helps in attracting new patients to your clinic but also instills confidence in their decision to choose you for your services.
This shows that creating an attractive appointment scheduling site is one of the best value for money propositions when it comes to marketing your clinic.
In this guide, we are going to show exactly how to do so.
Do you really need an attractive appointment scheduling site for your company?
In the healthcare industry, you will know that having an outstanding online presence will improve your position among your competitors in your market.
Moreover, this will also be put in a good position so that new patients will prefer to avail your services rather than others.
This is because when it comes to choosing healthcare, most people do not compromise on quality. For your existing customers, they already know about this. As for the new ones, how will they know that you are as good as what you claim online?
One metric that you can use is to show good ratings, but that is hard to come by for new clinics that do not have sufficient reviews online.
The other way is to have a very well-built online presence that should impress the user such that he or she feels your service may be as good as you claim. The better you do this, the more you gain in terms of trust from your potential patient.
An attractive appointment scheduler is an integral part of that. It helps you deliver the message of high quality to your customer with minimal effort and cost from your side.
In today’s world where there is a great deal of competition, you need to stay at the top of your game to ensure that you make the most out of your business. In order to achieve this, you need to ensure that you have the right scheduling page for your service as well.
Certain rules and guidelines need to be followed while doing this. But why?
Our goal with this guide is to create the best scheduling page that you can do for yourself. To achieve this, there are a couple of guidelines that you need to follow so that your scheduling page does a lot more than just representing your industry.
Every industry has certain visual characteristics that are key to showing the feel of that industry when it comes to design.
For example, wedding planners tend to use colors like pink, baby blue, custard yellow and oregano green on their websites because you are far more likely to see these colors on a wedding setting. This helps them bring a wedding like feeling to anyone who views their website.
In most cases, the customers are likely to opt for such a service rather than another is not able to do these things because they are far more likely to trust the service of the former from what they have seen online.
Therefore, it is essential that you follow certain guidelines that are commonly used in your industry to ensure that your online presence helps you stay over your competition. Be it Marketing, Photography, Education or any other industry for that matter, having an attractive and good-looking appointment scheduling website can only work wonders for your business.
This guide will provide an overview of what you need to know while designing your appointment scheduling page in the education industry. If you need an in-depth guide covering every step of the process, we recommend that you go through this guide before continuing any further.
All right, so, how should you go about making an appointment scheduling site?
Your scheduling page should have a very appealing and intuitive user interface furthermore not being too much that your customers are overwhelmed with it.
If you manage to do this right then this will help you catch the attention of the customer and keep him on the page for much longer times that they usually do.
Your page should also have everything that the customer needs to know about before they schedule an appointment with your clinic.
With the right color combination, background and text you can make a great scheduling page that you can use to showcase your establishment. This will help you gain the confidence of customers which will in turn benefit your business.
The best place to start is your background image.
Your background image sets the mood for your establishment when your customer is on your scheduling page. Therefore, it is also one of the most important aspects of your page that you need to pay attention to.
Now, let us think about how the image of your page should look like. When you typically look at any website that is in the healthcare field, you would want the page to give a sense of hospitality and care that you would usually receive in a hospital. In order to do this, you need to use the colors that you usually see in a hospital.
What are the colors that you see the most of the time in places like these? Many of them are white, teal, electric blue, mint green, pink and other colors that look like these.
These colors have been associated with the healthcare industry for so long that people almost immediately associate them with a clinic or hospital. From these, you can pick your color scheme that you want to use for your page. This will be applied to both your background image as well as other elements on your scheduling page.
Once you have the colors in mind, we would suggest that you pick a picture for your background image that incorporates these colors from your appointment schedule site. It will be better if these pictures show your establishment and staff.
Keep in mind that there will be other elements on top of your background image, so try to pick one that does not have too much going on in image. A simple and beautiful image is often the best pick for your background as it will compliment and accommodate everything else on your scheduling page well.
If in case you have just started your business or if you really cannot find some professional images, fret not. There are many websites from which you can either buy an image or download one for free, for which the process is explained in detail on the guide which is mentioned at the beginning of this one.
While solid colors are also an option for the background, we would highly recommend against that as it will look very badly put together and will not show the effort and quality that you have in your services through the scheduling site.
If you decide to go with an image, one more thing that you will need to keep in mind is that you need to pick an image where there are not many subjects along the border.
This is because the logo of your establishment and the name will appear on the top left corner of your scheduling page, which may not be visible if there is a lot going on behind it on that part of the background image.
If you are having trouble getting the color scheme of your choice, look at some websites of popular healthcare centers to get some inspiration. Also, here are some of our recommendations for the same:
While picking colors from these recommendations, you can use the hex value given below to get the exact color from above.
What about the other things on your site, then?
The color scheme that you had picked earlier while choosing your background image will be the one that you are going to use on other parts of your appointment scheduling page.
We do this so that your background image and the elements on your scheduling page together look like a part of a single design language. This brings a complete and attractive look to your scheduling page as well.
As for which of the colors to apply for the elements, we would suggest you to go with a color that goes well against the ones that dominate the background image. This helps the elements to be easily visible from the background image. This color can be picked from the ones that you had in mind earlier.
In the case of the text, it is best to go with the same color that you had applied for the button to bring uniformity to the page. If in case anything in the background is interfering with this, you can also go with black or white depending on the situation. Use a trial and error method for this and pick the color that helps the user to read the text very easily.
For every edit that you make on your page, we recommend that you check out the live preview of your page with the changes implemented by clicking on the Go To button at the very bottom of the Workspace Settings page.
In a nutshell, your scheduling page should have a simple and beautiful background, a good color on your buttons with the right text color on top of it. This will give a very health care like feeling to your customers, for that lack of a better description of the feeling.
The text on your site is probably the most powerful part.
There are two lines above the buttons where you can give any text that you want on your scheduling page.
There are two ways to use these text fields: You can either use this part to advertise your establishment by using some phrases to do so or you can use this to provide information to the users that they need to know about before scheduling an appointment with your clinic.
This choice is yours to make but ensure that you utilize that space effectively. If you feel that the given space for text is not sufficient for you, you can always edit the space between the buttons and the footer of the page to write what you need. Just ensure that the text on the image is legible enough to be read easily by the customer if you choose to do so.
Is that everything that you need to do? Not quite!
After you have done designing the appointment scheduling page, we highly recommend you show your page to others and ask for their opinions.
While the opinions of others help in pointing out things that you may have missed out in the process, they also sometimes provide suggestions about your work that may help improve your page.
Ensure that you get different points of view from people that you trust such as colleagues, friends and family and incorporate that changes that you think will improve the scheduling page.
You can also start asking your customers for feedback on the same from which you can take in suggestions that can be used to improve your scheduling page further.
We hope that this guide will help you! If you have any questions regarding this guide, let us know in the comments below.
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