The goal of most web designers is an attractive and easily accessible and functional website to convince the visitor to do something. Creating such a website requires good graphics, easy and intuitive site navigation, logical site layout and good web copy. The following suggestions are general web design guidelines.
Website Content
You want the visitor to see you as a knowledgeable source of information and / or a reputable company. Poor grammar and spelling will instantly reduce your credibility. Remember, people use the Internet to find information. Whether you are selling your own product or recommend someone else’s products, you must Provide valuable information to the visitors will love ze or click and find that a website geeft themself what they what they want.
Cross browser compatibility
There are at least a hundred different browsers in use. You should design your website to work properly in most browsers. To do this you may not be able to address all of the really great special effects available to use because they may not be supported in most browsers.
Although most Web browsers are free, people need not bother to upgrade to the latest versions. The average surfer may not know how to upgrade their browser or the attitude: “If it works, do not fix it.” Think of your visitor a PC, a Mac, a Linux box, a PDA or a mobile phone and they use different browsers.
Good web design requires your web pages in Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, Opera and Safari works at a minimum. Validating your HTML will help, but the final test is to see your website in different browsers on different platforms.
Images and Photos
Web surfers are impatient and studies show that most people will click away if a web page takes longer than 10 seconds to load. Always optimize your photos and other graphics files to a size as small as possible without sacrificing image quality.
Always use the width and height attributes on the picture so that the rest of the page to load graphics files while downloading. Use the ALT tag in HTML, so people with images turned off and using portable devices to know what the picture should be.
Background Colors
If you have something other than white behind text, you indicate otherwise link the user’s browser default colors will determine what color the links, which may obscure them.
Multimedia
Multimedia is compiled Flash movies, video clips, audio clips and background music. Always use streaming media because it reduces the download time. Make sure that the visitor can stop and start multimedia files or in case of flash introductions, store them if they want. That way people with slow connections or devices that do not support multimedia can ignore.
Also puts all the important information in multimedia in the text as well so that the visitor has access to that information without the use of multimedia. If a plug-in for multimedia, always use a link to it so the user can install. Finally, always remember the 10-second rule for loading site to the decision to use multimedia.
Site Navigation
Site navigation must be simple and intuitive. Studies have shown when a visitor can not access information they want to within three clicks, they will abandon the site. This is called the 3-click rule. Every area of your website should be reachable within three clicks from anywhere else on the site. If you have something other than a simple text links, make sure you have the trial in all major browsers.
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A periodic inspection of all site links to make sure that they are valid. Nothing drives a visitor off faster than broken links. There are several free online services that periodically checks your tires.
Frames
Avoid using frames because they make it difficult for the individual pages on your web site to bookmark and you want people to bookmark pages so they can come back.
Final Summary
Good Web design is a combination of common sense and good planning. Your site must be attractive and easy to use and above all give the user the information or services they want.