 Use Good Design
Practices
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 make sure your site reaches out to the
maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as
possible.
Make sure 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 are very unnecessary. If you think any
image is essential on your site, make sure you optimize
them using image editing programs so that they have a
minimum file size.
Keep your text paragraphs at a
reasonable length. If a paragraph is too long, you should
split it into separate paragraphs so that the text blocks
will not be too big. This is important because a block of
text that is too large will deter visitors from reading
your content.
Make sure your website complies
to web standards at www.w3.org
and make sure they are
cross-browser compatible. If your website looks great
in Internet Explorer but breaks horribly in Firefox
and Opera, you will lose out on a lot of prospective
visitors.
Avoid using scripting languages
on your site unless it is absolutely necessary. Use
scripting languages to handle or manipulate data, not to
create visual effects on your website. Heavy scripts will
slow down 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 a lot of work by styling all
elements on your website in one go.
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