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Some software tools are claiming that designing is easy as 123
and that they will ‘produce’ the pages for you. Unfortunately, a
number of web designers are victimized by this marketing
gimmick. The results are obvious. A number of operating systems
have pages that are not seen properly by the intended surfers.
Some are unreadable. Some are difficult to navigate. Most of
them do not serve their purpose.
To help some amateur web designers out there, I have here a list
of established rules of thumb in web designing. This may help
you in creating functional and arty wed sites.
1.A picture is worth a thousand words thus, you need not stuff
your page with a truckload of images. Pictures and images are
used to enhance the page and not to mess it up. Bear in mind
that less is beautiful.
The average time to load a page should not take longer than 5
seconds. If it’s longer than that, the surfers might click away
elsewhere. Therefore, you must keep the page size less than 30k.
Each file on the page should have a separate HTTP request to the
server. Lots of small images will slow down the loading. Other
factors that contribute to the slowing down of the loading are
the height and width attributes. Without these, the browser
should wait for the image to download since it has no idea of
how much space to leave for them.
2.Navigability and functionality come before artistic
excellence. It is no use making your site a masterpiece of art
if users cannot navigate around it.
3.Keep the web site simple.
4.Whenever your whole page is within a table the whole page
cannot render until the whole table is downloaded. To remedy
this, split the table into two and let the top one be a short
table that displays only the page header and a small number of
navigation links.
5.Stay away from all browser-specific functions. If a certain
feature is supported by one browser, it will most definitely not
be supported by another. Where you must use such features, it
should not hinder the display of the page in the other browser
which does not support such functionality.
6.Do not clutter the screen with new popup windows. An exception
though, may be made for pages containing a links list. It is
convenient in such cases to open links in another window, so
that the user can come back to the links page easily.
7.Bear in mind the fonts-challenged users too. Font should
therefore be readable. Stay clear of out-of-the-way hard-to-find
fonts. Use simple fonts like Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, and
Courier.
8.A new design trick that is increasingly being used on the web
these days. It looks something like this: Home > Section >
Subsection > Page
9.Use Java as a utilitarian programming language, not as a
graphics front-end for your photos or images. There are various
things you can do with Java but it doesn’t mean you’ll have to
do it all. Java applets are known to run slower, so users
experience certain lethargy in performance. And worse still,
Java has been known to crash certain browsers.
10.Use META tags. Search Engines heavily rely upon the Keywords
& Description Meta tags to populate their search database.
11.Write for all browsers, all resolutions, and all
color-depths. If you show people pages that look best with their
own browser and their own resolution that makes users feel ‘at
home’, and you get a better response. Web Designing is a
combination of creative skills and technical prowess – and one
is no less important than the other. A good web site on the
other hand, is like an efficient frontline which can spell the
difference between casual surfer and a potential customer. Web
designers are tasked to yield benefits that will redound to the
company. This is quite a hard task however you can always rely
on both your skills and the right tools!
Additional Information about the article can be found at http://www.fullcolor
printingcompany.com
About the author:
I love reading. Give me a book and I'll finish it in one
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world and so is writing.
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