How To Design Your Site Effectively
How To Design Your Site Effectively
You decide you want to have a web presence. How do
you design your website in a way that is effective? How do you effectively
create website in a way that makes your clients want to come back?
A client or visitor to your website may not want to
come back if their experience on your website is tedious and cumbersome.
Here are some tips to keep in mind when designing your website:
- Don't use a lot of animated graphics. In fact, don't use any
at all because it makes the site look unprofessional.
- Don't use frames to design your website. You will be in for a
lot of code redundancy and it causes the page to load slower.
- Use graphics at the lowest density possible. This allows the
page to load faster.
- Try to get most of the content on one page preventing the user
from having to scroll down to get the important information that
your first page needs to prevent.
- Use links to navigate to the various sections of the site at
the top, side, and bottom. Doing this allows a visitor can get to
anywhere in the site from anywhere in the site.
- Always have link to get back to the home page on every page of
the site.
- Use tables to lay out the sections on the site. This way, when
one adjusts the size of the browser window, it does not alter the
positioning of the paragraphs or sections on the page.
- Use headers and footers common to all pages and include that
header or footer each time a new page is rendered. This way, if
you have to change header or footer information, you only have to
change it once.
- Use a white background for the main content of your page. The
reason is that it looks much more professional and it is easier
to read.
About the Author Andrew Smith is a co-webmaster
of HowToAll, a site providing well researched information on accomplishing
tasks on various topics. http://www.howtoall.com.
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