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Web Design Tips - Useful Tips for Effective Web Design
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Listed below are some useful and rather important tips
for designing a professional and high quality web site:
Neat and Easy Navigation: Navigation of links on your
site plays a big role in determining the stickiness of
your site (how long your visitor stays and explores your
site). Ask yourself this, What do visitors do as soon as
they open your site? They would probably read the
content of the present page and then look around to find
any other page that interests them. Read our article on
Web site Navigation Tips.
Clean Layout Design: A clean layout that uses a lot of
white space enhances a site's looks. Try to keep the
focus on your content, use a template for this. Use
fonts that will be available on all computers to prevent
your site looking messed up.
Optimum Load Time: Make sure your load time is low. For
this you must:
Minimize Graphics, Flash and scripts: They hugely
increase your file size.
Optimize your HTML & script code: Make sure that your
site doesn't have any unwanted tags or unused scripts.
Use Server Side Include (SSI) files where ever possible.
SSI files once called from the web server reside in its
cache so on subsequent requests they load faster.
Read our article Tips for a Fast Loading Site for more.
Design for all Screen Resolutions: A site that is
easy-to-use always encourages visitors to stay and read
your content. For site with long pages of content this
is very crucial as the amount of scrolling required is
reduced. Suppose your site doesn't look good for a
particular resolution it is very probable that the
visitor will close the browser window feeling that the
web page is not for their viewing. Designing stretch
layouts that fit any screen resolution ensures that you
know all your visitors see a visually appealing and
professional site.
Read our article Designing for all Screen Resolutions
for more.
Ensure Web site scalability: Make sure your code and
design is scalable. As technology advances and
configuration of computers & their monitors keep
increasing and varying it is impossible to test your
site in all screen sizes and platforms.
Cross Browser Compatible: Make sure you check your site
for Internet Explorer 5+, Mozilla Firefox 1.0, Opera 7.0
and Netscape Navigator 6+ as they constitute 95% of the
worlds browsers. |
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