Thursday, 23 October 2014

Design Your Web Site Like A Pro

By Shellie Albelo


If you have ever wanted to create your own website, you are probably aware of how frightening the prospect is. Creating a web identity for yourself or anyone else can be intimidating. To do a good job of creating a website, you need some basic information, and that is what we present here.

When you're thinking about how to design a website, you need to be sure to think about the navigation. You want your navigation to be easily accessible and easy to use. Put the navigation bar on every page in a noticeable place. Also, make sure that it flows well with the rest of your page and doesn't distract visitors.

Avoid using so-called "mystery meat navigation". This involves using unlabeled images or other elements for the site's navigation. In many cases, the visitor has to mouse over the buttons to even see what they do. Navigation is best kept simple. Use text links across the top or along the left side of the page.

It may look pretty, but stay away from having too many animations on your site. Having your sales splash page rotate, spin and blink may look cool to you, but it will likely drive potential viewers away. When you add too many flashy splashes like that, it makes your site look amateurish which is not the message you want to convey.

Keep your pages to a reasonable length. Add content through new pages on your site, instead of tacking it on to the end of a home page. For the most part, readers are hesitant to keep going on a page that seems to scroll on forever. If you must have a lot of content on one page, include hyperlinks at the top and in sections throughout the page. This allows users to navigate through the available content without excessive scrolling.

Check your webpages for broken links before publishing them. Visitors become frustrated easily when they click a link and find that it leads to the wrong place. Use a program or check links manually to be sure you have no broken links on your site.

Make sure your business logo is well-designed and prominently on every page of your site. Your logo is a key component of your brand, and it should be one of the first things people see when they go to your website. If you can't come up with a good idea for a logo, there are design firms that will make you one at relatively low cost.

If your site users will be registering to use your site, you should use their personal information to auto-fill forms. For example, if someone registers for your site, and some of the same information is needed to fill out another form, make sure data that they have already entered is preserved, so users do not need to re-enter this information. If you use this data to your advantage, users will be able to save time as they navigate your site.

Regardless of how skilled you are in web design, it is important to always cover the basics. With so much available information on web design, finding the pertinent information you want can be like finding a needle in a haystack. The article above provided you with useful tips that you can use to begin to make great websites.




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