Web Page Design Tips

T his may be your first web       background for your web page       page design, or perhaps you     design, help yourself to some      are an old hand. Either         serious thinking. Not that color   way, you will need to address a       background is bad per se. Pastel   number of important issues to         shades do look nice, but if you    ensure that your web page design      consider that human eyes are more  caters uniformly to all viewing       accustomed to white background     needs. Here is a primer of            (as in case of books), it will be  essentials:                           all the more reason to do just                                           that for your web page design.     Web Page Navigation                                                                                            The Links                          Ever wonder why you let in                                               viewers to your website in the        Even if your main navigation       first place? Well, the answer         links are trendy, ensure that      must be 'to explore your              other text links sport an easy     website'. If so indeed, your web      look. In many a web page design,   page design ought to go easy on       one fails to mark out text links   navigation. Proceed with a menu       from other content. This happens   of links across the page at the       if you choose near-similar colors  top or down the left. Text links      for both. The least you want in    are always better. And yes, for a     your web page design is to         good web page design, the link        confuse your visitor with link     pattern has to be consistent in       anomaly. Another point worth       all pages, no matter what the         attending to is denoting visited   pages are about.                      links with a distinct color.                                             Nothing is more frustrating than   The Colors                            visiting same page again and                                             again.                             If you are in for color                                                  Easy Reading                          generally preferred are Verdana                                          and Comic though other types such  For any web page design, content      as Arial, Courier and Georgia      is considered as                      also find acceptance in web page   bread-and-butter. Controlling         design.                            text-size of content with styles                                         is in vogue these days in many        Screen Resolution                  web page designs. Yet a common                                           refrain among serious viewers is      Time now to explore screen         to allow them to decide the text      resolution you would opt for your  size. This calls for ability to       web page design. Despite           resize text as required.              perceptible shift to high screen                                         resolutions, there are many        Next on your list of good web         viewers who still feel             page design must be to arrange        comfortable with lower             your texts for easy reading. Let      resolution. 640x480 pixels may be  us remember that reading the          passé, but not so are 800x600     screen is different from reading      pixels. If you are alive to this   print. Attention on screen is         scenario, you will do well to      brief. Opt therefore for a decent     span your web page design on       web page design that attends to       percentage of screen size instead  specificities like bulleted           of fixing width in pixels.         lists, short paragraphs,                                                 subheads, highlighted keywords        If your preferred web page design  and suchlike.                         is for high resolutions, you will                                        find the headlines getting         Coming to fonts, numerous online      cluttered in small screens and     tests have been conducted by          the texts overlapping. The best    usability experts. The ones that      option would be to work out a      emerge as most legible and            parity among various screen        resolutions so that your web page     Opera, who collectively commands   design does not loose harmony.        just about 5% of browser-reach.                                                                             Browser Compatibility                 Summing Up                                                                                                  Not all browsers display your web     Whatever your web page design be,  page design in the same way. As       remember a viewer takes only       of now, Internet Explorer 6           one-twentieth of a second to form  stands tall with about 60% of all     an impression of a website         users. Firefox comes next but         [www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10895934/].  lags IE6 by a wide margin at 25%.     Juxtapose that with F-shaped       Since between them, the two           reading pattern of viewers         manage an overwhelming 85% of         [www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_p  acceptance, it may just be that       attern.html], and you know your    your web page design compulsorily     job is cut up to make a suitable   conforms to both, if not for          web page design.                   others like Mozilla, Netscape and                                     About the Author: Article by Josh at http://www.hostingfrenzy.com - Visit his site for a comprehensive web hosting directory, articles, tools, and more. Read more articles by: Josh Article Source: www.iSnare.com