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Basic_Rules_on_Web_Design
| Basic Rules on Web Design
In every design there are basic rules to consider. For a web
design, here are a few of the rules which you can take or break
for your projects.
1 > Viewers do not want to scroll horizontally.
As a personal experience, I find it really annoying to have to
scroll the page to the right just to be able to read the whole
content of the page. People should not be put to the task of
having to pick their mouse and move the web page over to the
right so as to see what's hiding over there.
It's easier to scroll down a page than to scroll horizontally.
One designer suggests checking out your web pages at resolutions
of 640 x 480, 800 x 600, and 1024 x 768 to avoid scrolling the
page to your right. It doesn’t matter that the majority of
monitors nowadays come preset at 800 x 600. You never know when
one of your audiences would have a monitor with the lowest
denominator, and then have that potential client go to a
competitor just because he or she also hates scrolling to the
right.
2 > Have more than three screenfuls of information… not.
Having to scroll horizontally for the rest of the information is
annoying, but it is also not fun either to have to scroll down
the page forever just to be able to get the whole information.
The rule: one web page shouldn't require a viewer to page down
more than three screens. Of it is more than that then you better
go back to the drawing board and re-design your screens.
But you should also consider that people will definitely scroll
if the content is king. As one designer puts it, "You just need
to balance content and nuisance factor with having to click
through on links."
3 > One web page should weigh in at no more than 50k.
If all of us would be able to obey the rules what a wonderful
world this would be. But we should also be considerate of the
fact that there are gray areas. Nothing is quite cut and dried.
It would be lovely to have a web page that doesn't take so long
to download. It only takes about seven seconds to make a good
first impression on the web.
However, there are times when you really need to put those large
graphics and images. This is especially true for photographers.
They need to have large pictures and photos in their pages to be
able to convince viewers of their capabilities. Just a word of
advice: do not bloat your web pages unnecessarily. It is still
better to have viewers tinkering on your site than to have them
go to another just because it takes a hundred years to download
your pages.
4 > Do not force your viewers to download plug-ins.
This is another thing that bugs me aside from the scrolling
horizontally. And that is to download a plug-in so that I'll be
able to view whatever it is I would like to view.
True, plug-ins can give that extra "wow!" to your interactive
website. But always remember that not everybody have plug-ins
although we're in the advanced technology age. To accommodate
everyone of your potential clients, think about creating an HTML
alternative.
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