Useful tips for web designing
A Website is like the nerve center of all your internet movement. People won’t visit the website if they are not made with attractive designs and styles. Therefore, designs on the websites should be made in such a manner that will make people visit again and again.
Here are some important web design tips for the web site that should be followed and this will guarantee that the visitors will feel a great impression for your site.
1. Fast loading of website: Many of us know that there are thousands of competing websites that are dealing with the website you have. For example imagine you have a website with lots of pages and links on it, and when some body click on the link and keep waiting and waiting for the site to load this can take visitors time, as you know web searchers are impatient they never wait for the website that take lot of time to load. They may close your site and move on to other website. Most likely your website should take at least 10-12 seconds to load this can keep the user stay on your site. There are many reasons why website takes much time to load because of the heavy and bulky images on the site that causes the website to load slowly. Some of the websites that are most visited are Yahoo, Google, Rediff, Ebay, Amazon that do not carry too many images on the site and that takes less time to load.
2. Support Resolution: Today, many computers support high resolution such as 640 x 800 to 1024 x 768 this is the standard resolution for most computers. When you make the website make sure that it supports all such resolutions and it may reduces the scrolling over the pages this can be done by designing your website in terms of percentage and not in pixels.
3. Browser Compatibility: When you design your website make sure that the site is browser compatible that means your site should look nice on all this browsers Netscape, Internet explorer and Mozilla, when you make complicated designs in the HTML some code cannot be supported by some browsers but you also need to fix such problems so that your site should be supported by all the browsers.
4. Professional looking fonts: Many a time visitors just come on the site because of the fonts you use on your website, fonts on the websites are very important that can attract many visitors, do not try using some fancy font and colors that may not be available in some computers, some websites my take default font from your computer which sometime may be worse. So do not make use of some fancy and attractive colors for the fonts that may not be available in some visitor’s computer make the use of professional and common fonts such as Arial and Times new roman that suits most computers.
5. Use of images: Sometimes many websites need the use images that are important for the visitor point of view. Moreover some simple web designs are very much effective for the website. Don’t make the unnecessary use of the images in the website such that it will load slower, Instead of that try making the use of small icons or small images that loads faster and brings attractive effects to your website, some visitors are more concerned about the contents on the site than the images.
6. Check for broken links: When you complete your website always check for the broken links before uploading it on the web server. Check your website links in Dreamweaver right click any file and check for the broken links of the entire site or you can directly check by uploading the site and using some online tools that will check all the links in the website.
7. White space use: Always see your website is clean and neat from the visitor’s point of view do not make your website complex with too many images and background colors or fancy text colors, keep the website simple by reducing the graphics usage on the website and try making the use of white space on the site such that the white space brings more elegance and overall purity to your site.
