Basic Web Site Design Tips

Firstly you need to make sure your website:

• Looks Professional and Inviting
• Minimize the amount of animations and images on the home page that slow
  up the initial download time
• Avoid Flash intros
• Choose a font and text that is easy to read and standardize the font style
  and size throughout the site
• Stick to simple designs most fast loading sites have very simple designs.
  Complicated designs will slow down your pages.
• Clean Layout Design, a clean layout that uses a lot of white space enhances
  a site’s looks.
• Keep the customer within 3 clicks from buying a product
• Keep a similar style to the site pages so navigation links are in the same
  place, people like familiarity and to know where to look for what to
  do next
• Search Engines cant read images and can only read words, so keep your home
  page text and relevant pages key word rich and relevant to the page topic
• Make sure the design is suitable on most screen resolutions 800×600 and
  1024 x 768
• Neat and Easy Navigation of links on your site plays a big decider in how
  long your visitors stays and explores your site. Ask yourself, what do visitors
  do as soon as the site opens? They would probably read the content that confronts
  them and then look around to find any other page links that interests them.
• 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.

Posted by admin on Friday, April 10th, 2009