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Your site looks fresh and modern, while maintaining the same brand image you're offline. Choose the same colors for your website if you use in other marketing materials, and the same logo. The site must be visually appealing, with many interesting features, but not too finicky or distracting. The layout should be easy to understand, let visitors to the site easy to navigate to the pages they want. Put Your Customers First Thinking about search engines and how your page rank in Google is great, but there is no point if your visitors will simply click away from your site within a few seconds of landing. Your goal is to convert visitors into customers, so make sure your site is customer friendly. Keep popular items and contact information easy to find and keep multiple menus where visitors click a few links to find the information they need to bury your site structure. Do not Be spammy This follows from the above point, that your site must be designed primarily for visitors with SEO as a secondary consideration. Not stuff your pages full of keywords so that the content does not make sense. You also need to clearly send the wrong tactics such as adding a list of keywords to the bottom of your pages, and cluttering the site with too much advertising. Make it quick Online visitors want information fast, and they have no patience to wait while a large image or fancy graphics load. Make sure your pages load quickly, with key information charging first. If you have large files or videos, put them in a position where the reader can still browse the rest of the page, while the larger elements to load. If you have a Flash site to think about offering an alternative simple html link for visitors with slow Internet connection. Do your homework Think long and hard about your audience before you search Use Neat and Easy Navigation You make sure your site is browser compatible Minimize the use of images Use of white space Check for broken links Design for all Screen Resolution Typography Colors use good Layout make perfect Fast Loading web site designs. Clear Navigation. Browser Compatibility. Similar TutorialsHey Chaps, Being a professional web designer, I used to read articles in this discipline and recently got a superb one and thought of sharing it with you.. Here are 15 important website design tips that you might not be aware of or have overlooked. Consider taking advantage of them if you haven't already done so... 1. Custom 404 Pages Create a custom 404 web page, so that any time your website visitor mistypes or misspells a URL on your site, they will still be provided with navigation options for your site (instead of getting nothing but a "Page Not Found" error message, which is neither friendly or helpful). 2. Redirect Non-www. To www. Website visitors will often leave out the "www." portion when they type a URL or link to your website. Set the website up so that it automatically redirects any non-www version of your domain URLs (http://domain. com) to the www version (http://www.domain. com) of your website. 3. Properly Sized Graphics Size and define all graphics and images on your web pages properly and correctly. Web pages will load quicker if the graphics contained on each page are properly defined so they don't require the web browser to re-size them. Properly sized and defined images can reduce the web browser workload and speed up the page loading time. 4. Favicon Add a Favicon (favorite icon) to your website, so that your company or product logo appears in the URL box. This icon will also show up in a bookmark list, and gives the web site an added level of professionalism. 5. Include RSS Auto-Discovery If you offer an RSS feed for any content on your website, be sure to include auto-discovery code in the header of your website. This will allow many browsers and RSS readers to automatically detect the presence of an RSS feed and alert the visitor that it is available. 6. Alternate Domains Domain names are relatively inexpensive, so you should register multiple domain versions and extensions in order to protect your brand. The varied domains can be parked on the main website, simply to prevent others from obtaining them. Registering alternate domain versions will help protect your brand. 7. Consistent Navigation Navigation should remain consistent on a website. As a website visitor moves through the website, the navigation bar should remain in the same place on each page. This will make it easier for visitors to navigate your website, and become more comfortable as they move through your site. 8. Home Goes Home The main graphic, company logo, or "header" at the top of the site should be included on every page in the site, and should always return the visitor to the home page of the website. This has become a web standard, and most visitors now expect to return to the main page of the site simply by clicking on the main top graphic from any page within the site. 9. Copyright Notice Include a copyright notice on the bottom of each page contained on the website, and keep it current! It may seem trivial, but an out-of-date copyright notice can send a message to your visitors that the website and its content may be out-of-date as well. 10. Meaningful File Names Use meaningful file names for any files, graphics, or web pages. Many search engines look at file names as part of their search algorithm, and using keywords in file names may help to improve search engine rankings. 11. Hyphens vs Underscores When naming files and webpages, use hyphens (i.e. web-page.html) rather than underscores (i.e. web_page.html) for the file names. It is much easier for search engines to separate and index the keywords when hyphens are used. 12. Alt Tags Use ALT tags to describe what images represent on web pages. ALT tags not only assist visually-impaired visitors in knowing what the images are, but they also help with search engine ranking. 13. Spell Check Use a spell-check feature on the text of all web pages in a website. A website that contains mistyped or misspelled words just shouts "unprofessional". Take the extra few minutes necessary to check the spelling of text on each page of your website. 14. Test After making changes to a website, test it! Many times, a webmaster will upload changes, confident in their abilities, only to later discover that in their attempt to fix one thing, they have "broken" something somewhere else. Make testing a habit after making even the most minor changes! 15. Keep It Simple Simple is good. Remove unnecessary clutter and distractions from a website and navigation menu. ... Good luck mate.. TIA for your response. Ok I need to take things like this forum: http://lmiinc.com/forum/ http://lmiinc.com/forum/calendar.php And make it active on the new site I'm building for LMI. So what files exactly do I need to copy to the new directory & then reference as a link in my navigation bar in all of my .html files? there is three technique of seo . black hat technique white hat technique i wud like tell u white hat technique . there is two process of seo on page title code meta keyword meta description analytics code w3 validation off page optimization. book marking submission directory submission press release submission....... and many more Riiight, this is driving me mad http://int.jatos.co.uk/kcda/ Need to get copyright info to stay at the base of the page regardless of the length of content with without my floats in the content going weird, and I don't want to use Javascript. Anyone know a way I can achieve this, tis' is driving me MADDD! Hi there I am can make sites pretty well using full css and divs but my main problem is choosing colors and how best to use them on the site. Does anyone have any tips please Hi Guys, I have owned one website, Can anyone Get me some good Tips for get traffic to my website ?? Hello, New to the programming part of this all, well here's my story. Having to make my own website for a company taking shape, I was glad to be able to make a web-layout quite easily in the form of Artisteer. After this I put the page through a WYSIWYG- type of editor, namely Bluegriffon. Now, when I open the site in here, the pop-down menu on the left part seems to be okay, and I would like this element to behave just like shown in att. 1.<< Though when exporting, the ''Aanbod'' Button does not function at all, in Chrome, and in Opera, and when opening in new tab it will only show a >different than intended> drop-down menu! like att 2. << I'm confused, as I said, have very little knowledge about HTML editing. Is this fixable?, well more accurately- which part of coding should I apply for the desired effect? (drop down on hover preferred, though drop down on click will do just fine). Next question. How can I set my background to be ''Set'' Instead of moving along with the entire ''frame'' ? Last question. When making a sub-page (i.e. click on any of the sub-menu items and be directed to the page desired) , do I use the exact same page as my index.html, and simply rename it? Or are there any ''cloning'' tricks and standard issues to avoid when doing so?. Again, I am new to this all, but finding it rather amusing to do with a WYSIWYG editor, sorry to disappoint you guys for not ''writing'' the code etc myself, but time is of the essence, I need the site to be on-line in quite a short time Thanks a lot in advance, and if this is in the wrong section, my apologies ^^ Leon (> http://www.Power-Entertainment.nl < ) Hi people, hopefully you can help. I've made a website for a artist-run collective here in Edinburgh, Scotland and everything is getting under way. I had a few questions with some issues I have been encountering and perhaps you could send me some information on if there is anyway to fix this. http://www.modular9.co.uk/ That's the site. Some things aren't up yet but you get the idea. The main issue is with the index page anyway. I have used a collection of image paths and rollovers and if you take a look at the source you'll see my very basic, yet required, html/css. One of the issues is the delay in rollover. I understand it is because it is loading a whole image each time you rollover the tally marks, but is there any way to speed this up? Or use a script that isn't as ineffective as javascript? I don't mind the delay but I know that the rollover is meant to exist so I give it a second or two, but people coming to the site for the first time might not notice the navigation and leave :/ Also, on some of my friend's computers at college, when they click on, artists, or the about section, or contact, for example, the background doesn't show up as the colours I put down. Is this because I used css to do so? Are there actually some browsers that can't take css yet? I know it's a bit vague and a general query but any tips and things would be great to make the site more effective and smooth running. Hope you are all well. Rich Hi there Sorry, i don't know if this is the correct section of the forum to put this in. What I really want to know is, how do you get webpages to look like this: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/lov...ign-mpt=uo%3D2 Can this be done using HTML and CSS alone? I'm only referring to the design part of it, not what the page is able to do. Like play songs for example. Thanks Jackie xxx I know HTML pretty good and I can get by w/ CSS - but what else should I know for web design? Hey guys, This is my problem...---> http://triplestarnews.com/needhelp.jpg the original code is found on this page http://triplestarnews.com/main any ideas?? thanks! Eric My website is split up into 4 parts. The top banner, the left menu, the right menu, and the center part. My left menu is floating left and my right menu is floating right. I want to add content in the center but when I do, the side menus are moved downwards. I tried floating the center but it pushed it past the left menu. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Can any one help me how to design web for mobile. I design a web by Frontpage, look beautiful in PC but can not read in mobile. Thanks in advance I got into this about 5/6 years ago when I had to design a basic site for school so taught myself some CSS, we were using dreamweaver. I've been wanting to get back into it recently and was just wondering best way to do this? I was thinking about experimenting with maybe wordpress or another CMS. I'd like to get back into a bit of photoshop or fireworks as well not sure where I'll find the time but eventually maybe. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Bottom image pulls up nicely on FF and Safari. However there is a thin line that breaks the 2 background images. Try on IE9 http://www.seahosting.net Please help Hi: Currently, I'm making my web pages 'by hand'. That is, I use an editor, and laboriously crank out and test my pages on IE, safari, FireFox and Opera. But this is agonizingly slowwwwww ! What tools do *professional* webbers use to build sites ?? What would you folks here suggest as a useful tool for web-building that would speed up my building, but result in clean editable pages ? (btw, I'm an expert database man, but quit a neophyte in web design.) My 'forte' is building Windows business applications (Inventory, Accounting, etc, etc) using xBase database software (i.e., the xHarbour language). I can hardly wait until I can get 'behind-the-scenes' and do database work to back up my (pathetic) designs. Thanks for any hints. -Mel Smith Mesa, Arizona How do I begin coding a web design PSD? Any decent tutorials? I know that one could use Adobe Fireworks and slice up the images, but I don't have Fireworks. I would like to know if any one would like to make a web site for me i cant pay you. But if you would like The experience and or practice I would really like the Help. It is a web site for a audio/visual production company based in Ontario that specialize in audio/visual production for live events, video post-production, video conferencing, special effects, audio recording, audio mastering, podcasting, and other services. If you would like to help me post here or add me on msn at jacob.pn@hotmail.com thanks. Hello, I've been working on the design for this website - http://www.keison.co.uk/test/ . The side menus are in javascript, which I realise is not a generally good thing, as this website's search engine rankings are important. However, my way to combat this is to use the text links at the bottom of the page (specifically the Product Index) to list the other pages on the website, so that technically every single page can be indexed via standard text links. My question is by doing the above, will this have any adverse effect on search engine rankings? Any help is appreciated. Hi! I had my test webpage where i test my designs, scripts etc. working well but then my little brother change some stuff in both the html file and css file, I already fixed a lot but I don't know what's wrong now. HTML Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
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