I hate clutter on websites. There’s nothing worse than having a cluttered up website, or some stupid carousel menu system just because it "looks good". Give me some feng shui and zen any day.

Simple works. Simple means NO clutter. NO bells. NO whistles.

And yet. Judicious use of the occasional visual treat can be permitted. Especially if it’s focused on something that genuinely helps your user (and no, I don’t mean showing a clock – NO ONE needs YOUR website to tell THEM the time).

What I’m going to suggest is adding tool tips. Add them sparingly, but put them in. They help. People like them. And you might as well make them pretty whilst you are at it: 15 tool tips using jQuery

(n.b. These require some good programming skills to use. Sometimes it’s good to tackle things yourself. This is not one of those times. Get someone who knows what they are doing to implement them).

Ben