Some Excellent Website Design Tips
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Web Design is an area which can be extremely important to the success of a website. It’s fair to say that most people who design their first website don’t do a good job. They may think that there design is good enough to upload to the web but in actual fact the only reason they think that is because they were the ones who designed it. This is a common issue which most amateur designers experience but it’s very important to keep practicing and keep telling yourself I can do better than this. It may sound cliche but practice does make perfect and the more times you redesign your website layouts, the better you will get.
It’s not impossible to design a great website on your first attempt but you shouldn’t expect to. Please read the rest of this article and take note of the tips and advice given and you will be on your way to designing a website that is nice to look at and easy for people to use.
Keep it Simple
Most people who start off designing a website think that more is better. That’s completely wrong and will turn your visitors away. Do not have lots of images, background music, flaming text and a hundred different colors fonts. All this stuff will increase the loading time of your website and believe it when I tell you that most people get impatient after waiting more than 10 seconds.
If you don’t believe me look at every popular website, take Google for example! All the site consists of is a plain white background, a nice logo, a few links and the search box. Some may say Google’s design is poor but experienced designers would say to you that it’s a nice design. Google became popular because it provided better content and loaded much faster than competing search engines at the time. Sites such as eBay, hotornot.com and papal all have simple designs but still look professional. That’s exactly what you should be aiming for with your website layouts.
Here is a more exhaustive list of design tips you should follow:
Don’t use frames
Don’t have background music
Don’t have too many images
Stick to one main font for your text
Don’t use too many colors for your layout, stick with 2 or 3 main colors
If using flash, don’t overuse it.
Don’t use things like flaming text, animated gif images they look tacky
Don’t use bright text on a bright background and vise versa
Don’t make your text size too large or too small
Arial and Verdana are the two most popular website fonts
Don’t make the width of your website too large test it on multiple sized monitors and on several screen resolutions
The above points are very important. Please remember that having an excellent design is really no better than having a good design. However a good design is much better than having a bad design. The truth is that it’s your content or website concept that will determine the success of your website but having a bad design can affect your chances of success, so take note!
Darrell Knox is a writer and entrepreneur with 15 years of home business and marketing experience.Website: myacetemplates.net
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