What Makes a Good Website Design?
Every website designer wants to create something that is eye catching, pretty and appealing to the visitor to urge them to visit their website, along with easy accessibility and functionality. Graphics design, easy site navigation, site layout are some factors that make a good website design. Other such factors are as follows:
Web Content:
People are out there on the internet looking for information. And therefore you should provide them with good resourceful information about the products they are looking for. The content of your website should be informative and resourceful to the visitors at the very first look. Grammar and spelling errors ruin the reliability of your site easily. Use normal sized fonts. Don’t ever go for huge or very small size fonts. Never use pop-up windows as they create a distraction. Instead place necessary information at the center part of your website for users to see.
Browser Compatibility:
Your website should be designed to work on most of the extensively and broadly used website browsers all over the world. The user at the other end might also be using different operating systems such as the Linux, Mac, or even a mobile phone to browse through the internet. Therefore, your website should be compatible with various types of operating systems.
Before you put up your website out there for others to view, you should view it from different browsers and make sure it does run on all those platforms.
Images &Graphics:
In the process of a website design, graphics can be inserted into your site, but should never be overdone. A recent survey says that people just skip viewing a website, if it takes more than 10 seconds to load. So, keep your images and graphic files to be smaller in size without compromising their quality.
Always use ALT HTML tag, so that people using hand held devices such as mobile phones, can get to know about the picture.
Colors& Multimedia Content:
Always try to keep white as your website’s background color. If you opt to change it, be sure to give link colors or else the browser might decide on the color of the links and make it look messy.
Flash , video clips, background music and audio clips altogether constitute as the “Multimedia”. Make use of streaming media to reduce download time. Allow the visitors to skip the multimedia content if they want to, since people with slower connections can disregard them. Provide links to necessary plug-ins to use the multimedia. Good use of multimedia content leads to a good website design.
Links &Site Navigation:
The site navigation should be spontaneous and simple to use. Always try and use simple text links. If you want to use something other than that, test them in all the browsers first. Test the site at regular intervals to avoid broken links.
With all these said, a good website design is always a blend of planning and basic known features.
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