Useful Guide in Designing Your Web

Some Web Designers are very technical that they forgot the real purpose of designing a Web Page or even a website. Below are some useful and important tips in designing a high quality Web site that visitors will surely have a great lasting impression:

1.)    Loading Time: You may design website that looks great but if it loads really slow then definitely people will look for another site. You should design a site that opens the page less than 12 to 15 seconds. Web designing always consider how long it will take for people to open the page.

Now how will you design a site that loads faster?

Images: Very often the simple designs are the best. The key to fast loading websites are images, minimize the use of images instead use images 40% to 50% only to enhance the image of your site not 80%. Instead of using pictures use catchy simple HTML.

Enhance Web Images: You can reduce the size of the picture or image by selecting the colors that you need, from the colors' section. The less colors you use the lesser the size. Furthermore, make sure to optimize the picture that you will use in your site, they should be in jpeg or gif format. Note that there are many online tools that you can download that will cut down the size of the picture.

Use Simple Icons: Instead of using big icons use small and simple icons that add little color but still draw interest of the visitor.

Use CCS Styles: Use cool text effects in CCS style. CCS style is a simple HTML code as a result it loads fast.

Test Final Design: prior to deciding on your final design make sure to check its load time is Net Mechanic. This site gives you a free analysis of your website, which is very important in deciding whether to continue your current design, or you need to change it.

Minimize Graphics and Flash: this will massively increase your file size.

2.)    Computer Resolutions: You need to design your site according to computer resolution. Computer resolution rages from 640 x 480 to 1024 x 768 or higher. Design your site according to percentage and not pixels.

3.)    Fonts: Do not use fancy fonts that are not available in other computers. Use common web fonts.

4.)    Browser Compatibility: Your site should look good in the most common browser not only in Internet Explorer. You have to check how it looks in Safari browser, Opera browser, Google Chrome, Netscape Navigator. Do not stop developing your site, unless it looks good in all common browsers.

5.)    Broken links: Always check for broken links before uploading your site to the web server. You can do this in your Dreamweaver software, or you can upload your site and then check broken links using online tools.

6.)    Clean Layout Design: A clean layout design uses many white spaces, which enhanced the site’s appearance. Focus on your content and again use Dreamweaver templates.

7.)    Search Feature: If your website consists of more than 10 pages, it is useful to have a search feature this is to make sure that your visitors can easily locate what they are searching for.

8.)    Web Content: While it’s important that your website is clean and looks professional, it’s extremely important that you focus on your content and advertising. Stay away from: Auto played music, this is very annoying let your visitor play the music not you. Loads of pop-ups, visitors might close your site thinking that your pop-ups can inflect virus to their computers. Avoid applying animation intros and too much animation, oftentimes this can confuse novice users. Avoid the use of counters that says you are the 100th visitor.

9.)    User friendly Navigation System: This is one of the most important issues to conceptualize when creating and designing a website. You need to make sure that your visitors can easily get what they are looking for. Conventional websites display their navigation bar at the top or on the left side make sure to adhere to this since users are becoming familiar to this navigational location.