July 17, 2009

Good Design Practices



Your website is where your business resides -- it's like the headquarter of an offline company. Hence, it is important to practise good design principles to makecertain your site gets hold of bent the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible. Make certain you have clear directions on the navigation of your website. The navigation menu should be uncluttered and concise so that visitors know how to navigate around your website without confusion.

Reduce the number of images on your website. They make your site load very slowly and more often than not they're very unnecessary. If you think any image is essential on your site, be sure you optimize them using image editing programs so that they've a minimum file size.

Keep your text paragraphs at a reasonable length. If a paragraph is too long, you should split it into seperate paragraphs so that the text blocks won't be too big. This is important because a block of text that's overlarge will deter visitors from reading your content.
Make certain your website complies to web standards at www.w3.org and make sure they're cross-browser compatible. If your website looks great in Internet Explorer but breaks horribly in Firefox and Opera, you'll lose out on many prospective visitors.

Avoid using scripting languages on your site unless it's absolutely necessary. Use scripting languages to handle or manipulate data, not to create visual effects on your website. Heavy scripts will loosen up the loading time of your site and even crash some browsers. Also, scripts are not supported across all browsers, so some visitors might miss important information because of that.

Use CSS to style your page content because they save many work by styling all elements on your website in one go.


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