Good Web Design Considerations

< span                            breaks up in Firefox or Safari     class="cap">Your        you WILL lose visitors. As I       business is represented to      write this around 55% of people    the world online through your         worldwide use Internet Explorer    website. It’s a brochure that any     so that’s 45 people out of every   potential customer, anywhere and      one hundred that visit your site   at any time can view and decide       using a different browser so       whether your company is the right     cross-browser support MUST be      one for them. Therefore it is of      considered.                     the upmost importance that your        Ensure your navigation is as    web site practices good web           easy as possible, make sure it is  design techniques which will          clear and concise and that at any  enable your company’s site to get     point of a visitors browsing they  the maximum amount of traffic,        know where they are and how to     therefore making the maximum          get back to where they came from.  amount of profit.                     If a visitor experiences any       The most important thing to           confusion in any way they WILL     consider on the World Wide Web is     leave.                          that your website reaches certain      Text paragraphs should always   web standards. These are set out      be kept at reasonable lengths. If  at www.w3.org, here you can check     a block of text appears to be too  your web site with just a few         big it can deter some a lot of     mouse clicks and it will direct       visitors from reading your         you on whether these standards        content. If you have got a lot of  are being met and, if not, how to     content to go on a page you        change your web site to do so.        should always try and split them   Another thing to consider is          into small text blocks, this way   cross-browser compatibility.          visitors will be able to pick out  You’re website may look fantastic     what they need to know a lot       in Internet Explorer but if it        easier and they will not feel as   though they are reading an            using them at all unless it is to  essay.                             handle and manipulate data.     If you are using any images,        Lastly, style all your pages    make sure they are optimized to       with CSS, this reduces the amount  the smallest possible size and        of code on your web pages          try and reduce the number per         enabling them to load quicker and  page. Images will slow the            it also saves you a lot of time    loading of a website down and the     when re-styling or adjusting the   majority of the time they aren’t      web site in the                    really necessary.                  future. Stay away from using any sort      >About the                      of scripting languages throughout     Authoryour website for visual               id="authorbio"                     images/effects. Scripting can         class="membersnoticewhite">Web     slow down the loading time of a       design Watford, Hertfordshire.     page on your website and even         Affordable and Professional Web    cause the browsers, in some           Site Design. PJE Designs - cases, to crash. If you really        href="http://www.pjedesigns.co.uk  have to use them, export the code     /">to a different page and reference     size="-2">http://www.pjedesigns.c  it when needed. Some browsers         o.uk <  aren’t compatible with some           /div>                          scripts so I would advise not          Published At: www.isnare.com Permanent Link: http://www.isnare.com/?aid=285610&ca=Internet Got a question about this article? Ask the community! Article Tags: lot, web, website ...Archive >>