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Calgary Software Application and Web Development Articles |
Good Web Design Considerations
Your business is represented to the world online through your website.
It's a brochure that any potential customer, anywhere and at any time
can view and decide whether your company is the right one for them.
Therefore it is of the upmost importance that your web site practices
good web design techniques which will enable your company's site to get
the maximum amount of traffic, therefore making the maximum amount of
profit.
The most important thing to consider on the World Wide Web is that your
website reaches certain web standards. These are set out at www.w3.org,
here you can check your web site with just a few mouse clicks and it
will direct you on whether these standards are being met and, if not,
how to change your web site to do so. Another thing to consider is
cross-browser compatibility. You're website may look fantastic in
Internet Explorer but if it breaks up in Firefox or Safari you WILL
lose visitors. As I write this around 55% of people worldwide use
Internet Explorer so that's 45 people out of every one hundred that
visit your site using a different browser so cross-browser support MUST
be considered.
Ensure your navigation is as easy as possible, make sure it is clear
and concise and that at any point of a visitors browsing they know
where they are and how to get back to where they came from. If a
visitor experiences any confusion in any way they WILL leave.
Text paragraphs should always be kept at reasonable lengths. If a block
of text appears to be too big it can deter some a lot of visitors from
reading your content. If you have got a lot of content to go on a page
you should always try and split them into small text blocks, this way
visitors will be able to pick out what they need to know a lot easier
and they will not feel as though they are reading an essay.
If you are using any images, make sure they are optimized to the
smallest possible size and try and reduce the number per page. Images
will slow the loading of a website down and the majority of the time
they aren't really necessary.
Stay away from using any sort of scripting languages throughout your
website for visual images/effects. Scripting can slow down the loading
time of a page on your website and even cause the browsers, in some
cases, to crash. If you really have to use them, export the code to a
different page and reference it when needed. Some browsers aren't
compatible with some scripts so I would advise not using them at all
unless it is to handle and manipulate data.
Lastly, style all your pages with CSS, this reduces the amount of code
on your web pages enabling them to load quicker and it also saves you a
lot of time when re-styling or adjusting the web site in the future.
About the Author:
Web design Watford, Hertfordshire. Affordable and Professional Web Site Design. PJE Designs - http://www.pjedesigns.co.uk
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