Great Tips For Web Designers

One can source a host of web designing tools in the software market, and practically all of them claim to generate great web pages for you very easily. However, the fact remains that this is a marketing ploy, and you will at many times come across sites that function perfectly with a particular browser but even plain text on the page may become unreadable as soon as you try viewing the site using a different browser. Moreover, when you see the huge number of operating systems surfers the world over use; such pages may not reach even half the targeted netizens. If the page relates to online sales and is not viewable to half the targeted online audience, it spells straight losses to the tune of 50%.

To let you design a high, professional quality web site here are some helpful tips.

• Ensure neat and convenient navigation: The navigation facility of your site is greatly responsible for making visitors stick around for a long time and continue exploring. Now to make your site easily navigable you must ask yourself about the initial action of visitors when they first open your site. The answer usually is that they read the content on the logged page and then search around for other pages that might have something interesting. Therefore, keep a clean page layout and ensure easy navigation by keeping all or a group of pages cast in one basic design just with different content. The visitor will automatically focus on content. Concentrate on your content and use simple clear fonts that are available on most computers for the text.

• Always prepare site navigation before designing. This will avoid clutter due to including forgotten links later. Use drop-down menus in you have many links. Use fly-outs for your primary topics. Make efficient use of your navigation space by using clear and precise words in your links to let the visitor know of the contents of a corresponding page.

• You must also maintain a site map or section contents to allow users to conveniently find whatever they are searching. There always remains a probability of your periodically adding pages. Therefore, your navigation should have enough flexibility for accommodating any additional links you may need.

• Design your site for all screen resolutions. Easy to use sites encourage users to stick around and browse through the content on the page. If you have a site with long pages, this becomes all the more important as it reduces the amount of scrolling required. If your site does not appear appealing for a specific resolution it may induce viewers to close the browser window feeling that the web page is not fit for viewing. When you design stretch layouts that fit all screen resolutions you ensure that your visitors get a professional looking site with high visual appeal.

• Website scalability is necessary for a properly designed website. With advancing technology, resulting in constant changes to computer and monitor configurations, testing your site for all screen sizes and platforms is virtually impossible. You must therefore ensure that your design and code is scalable.

• Most importantly, ensure cross browser compatibility and check your site especially for Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, and Opera because they add up to nearly 95 percent of browsers in the world.

Article Source: http://www.mycontentbuilder.com

Peter is a director of northland digital agency which owns web design company slinky web design, and writes earth movin media, a web design blog.

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