) An eye catching header navigation (see #3) and it should
The first thing someone also make your content the focal
sees when they visit a web point of your web site. Although
site is the header. A poorly you will most likely have
designed header is going to cost advertisements on your site, find
you a lot of lost traffic.
attractive ways to integrate them
Your header should contain into your layout.
something unique that catches the
3) Easy to use navigation
attention of visitors. Most good
This is a MUST! If users can’t
headers have a logo, picture or navigate through your site, they
other graphic, along with a are going to leave. Your
phrase or two describing the navigation menu should either be
purpose or main feature of the under the header or on the sides
web site.
of your page.
Your header should match the
The navigation (and your web
theme of the rest of your site, site) should be constructed in a
and you should NEVER place an logical fashion that makes it
advertisement above it easy for users to get from one
(especially one that blinks or area to another. You should also
flashes)!
make sure that your visited links
2) Uncluttered layout
are a different color from the
Web 2.0 is all about blending rest of the links.
simplicity with attractiveness.
4) Original content
You don’t want your site to be
At the end of the day,
all text with a white background, original content is what is going
but you also don’t want it to to make or break your web site.
have a million advertisements, If you don’t have anything
widgets, etc.
interesting to offer to your
Your layout should make it visitors, they are not going to
easy for your user to find the come back to your web site. If
you are in the stages of planning border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
your web site and are unable to border-style: solid;
come up with any ideas for border-color: #FFFFFF;
original content, you need to background-color: #F5F7FB;
scrap the idea and start on border-left: #BAC9FF 1px solid;
something new. border-right: #BAC9FF 1px solid;
One thing to keep in mind is margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom:
“content” does not just refer to 10px;" valign="top"
written articles. Content can be align="center">
anything from movies to games to
pictures. As long as its interesting and original, the type="text/javascript">
="8710800197";
google_color_border = type="text/javascript"
"F5F7FB";
google_color_bg = "F5F7FB"; src="http://pagead2.googlesyndica
tion.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
google_color_link =
"0000FF";
google_color_url =
