Web Design Tips

Listed below are some helpful and quite important instructions and tips for designing a top quality website:

* Easy & Neat Navigation: Navigation of all web site links plays a huge role in determining the stickiness of your website. Ask yourself this, What do visitors do ASAP they open your web site? They would perhaps read the web content of the present page and then look around to find any other page that involves them in interest.

*Clean Layout Design: A clean layout that uses a lot of white space enhances a website's looks. Try to keep the focus on your web content, use dreamweaver templates for this. Use fonts that will be available on all computers to prevent your web site from looking messed up.

* Program using pure CSS: The world is moving away from table based web sites to pure CSS web sites because it offers reusability, accessibility and considerably reduces file size apart from giving greater control over the look of your web site.

*Quick Load Time: Please make sure your load time is exteremly low. For this you must:

Minimize Flash, Graphics and possible scripts: They hugely increase your file size.

Optimize your script/HTML code: Please make sure that your website doesn't have any unused scripts and tags.

Use SSI files where ever possible.

*Design for all possible Screen Resolutions: A website that is easy-to-use always encourages your visitors to stay and read your web content. For web site with long pages of content this is very crucial as the amount of scrolling required is decreased. Suppose your website doesn't look great for a particular resolution it is very probable that the visitor will shut 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 professional and visually appealing web site.

*Ensure Web site scalability: Please make sure your website design and code is scalable. As technology advances and configuration of computers & their monitors go on varying and increasing it is impossible to test your website in all platforms and screen sizes.

* Cross Browser Compatible: Please Make sure you check your website for IE 5+, Opera 7+, Mozilla Firefox 1+, Safari 3+ and Netscape Navigator 6+ as they constitute 95% of the world Internet browsers.