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Good website layout and design practicesGood design will help you sell and make it easy for your visitors. The top 3 surfer complaints have been the same for years.1. Slow downloads, slow sites. 2. Broken Links. 3. Problems finding what they want. Design your site to avoid these three things and it will almost automatically make it seem a professional site unless you are using bad fonts, color and animation. To surfers your website is where your business is. Like the headquarters of a brick and mortar company It's important to practice good design to make sure your site can reach the largest amount of people possible. Make it easy to navigate your website. Keep the navigation scheme the same through out the site. The nav menu should be uncluttered and clear so people can get around your site without getting confused. Make sure every navigation link on your site works. Hold down the amount of graphics on your website. If you have lots of graphics your site will load very slow and most times most of the images aren't necessary. If you've noticed there is only one image on this site and the file size isn't that large. If you really need the images make sure you use some type of graphics editor to optimize them.
Don't make your paragraphs to long. If they do get to long find a place to split them in half so it doesn't seem so big. Also try not to have your text go completely from one side of the screen to the other. Text somewhere between 500 to 600 pixels wide is about as wide as you want a text area to be. Wide text makes visitors uncomfortable and they won't read all of it. Make sure your website meets the web standards at www.w3.org. Make sure your site is compatible with all browsers. It may surprise you to find that your site can look good in Internet Explorer but looks a huge mess in Firefox and Opera. If it looks bad in other browsers you will lose sales. Don't use any kind of scripting languages unless it's absolutely neccessary. Use the scripts to manipulate data, not to create screen or visual effects for the surfers. Using a ton of scripts that you don't need slows down the time it takes the page to load and can cause some browsers to crash. Crash a surfers browser it's not likely he or she will be back. Some scripts are not supported by all browser so some surfers may miss things that are important because of that. If it's a larger site use CSS to set the styles on your pages. It will help keep them smaller and you can change each element in the CSS file it will change every page on your site, all at once. Makes it easier to make changes and helps your page load faster. |