Good Design Practices

Your website is where your business stand. We can call it such a headquarter of an offline company. It is so important to practice good design principles to make sure your website can reaches out much visitors and sells to as many people as possible.

Make sure you have clear purposes on the theme of your website. The navigation menu should be uncluttered and concise so that visitors know how where to go and to find and also to navigate around your website without confusion.

Less images on your website is good. They make your site load very slowly and more often than not they are very unnecessary. But if you think that any image in your website is an essential on your site, make sure the optimizing of the image using image editing programs so that they have a minimum file size.

Keep your paragraphs at a reasonable length. If a paragraph is too long, you should split it into separate paragraphs so that the text blocks will not be too big. This is important because a block of text that is too large will deter visitors from reading your content.

Make sure your website complies to web standards at www.w3.org and make sure they are cross-browser compatible. If your website looks great in Internet Explorer but breaks horribly in Firefox and Opera, you will lose out on a lot of prospective visitors.

Avoid using scripting languages on your site unless it is absolutely necessary. Use scripting languages to handle or manipulate data, not to create visual effects on your website. Heavy scripts will slow down the loading time of your site and even crash some browsers. Also, scripts are not supported across all browsers, so some visitors might miss important information because of that.

Use CSS to style your page content because they save a lot of work by styling all elements on your website in one go.