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For website designers, it’s important to keep the clients happy and keep them coming back or sending referrals. However, this is not an easy task and can’t be achieved until you employ the following virtues while designing any website as the following.
- Know the purpose and goals of a website before starting to design, perhaps the audience.
- Plan the website layout according to the client’s perspective and interaction.
- Choose colors and color combination very carefully, go for browser safe colors.
- Keep the font style and size consistent throughout the website, maintain typography.
- Keep navigation and menu structure simple and clear, properly organized with sub-menus if any.
- Websites main header is the first impression, so make it stand out. Speak a bit louder.
- Divide content into sections and paragraphs using headings and bullets. This increases the content’s readability and impression.
- Use interesting images that compliment the website and integrate with its whole theme. Induce call to action.
- Each page of the website should have appropriate title and Meta tags to help rank well in search engines.
- Search box option is a must to help user find relevant information on the website.
Having a good website is crucial for business owners. Therefore, follow the above mentioned guidelines the next time you design or redesign any website.
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Nice, concise list! Having started 20+ years ago as a desktop publisher, I particularly like #4!
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Alison, thanks for writing your feedback. Typography is really something crucial for publishing and for the web too. Though, it is been in these days but I see it is going to be a common web design trend for 2010.
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thank you for the post .
this is very useful for me.
keep going on.
Glad to know that you find it useful. There is one more related post that lists web design sins. That might be of some use too. Check it out.
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I'm just starting to get started with web designing. Learning more thoughts and insights on creating one. I've come across to your site and I need to learn more regarding web designing.
Your post is very useful and want to read more of it. Thank you for such wonderful insights. Your great on giving excellent insights. Keep it up.
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These were really concise to-do and must-do list for every web programmer. I liked your way of putting these in this format. Thanks for sharing your post.
Excellent tips, I think navigation is most important when creating a website, you need to help your visitors find what they want and give it to them fast. Deep linking also helps with SEO.
Glad to know that you find the post useful. I will be happy to help you.
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Thank you. I complied this list due to the shortage of time. I had few other points too which I will be sharing very soon.
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Truly navigation is quite important since it simply directs your visitors. To me and probably to every web designer the site navigation do matter a lot.
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All 10 are excellent tips. However, my biggest issues with design have always surfaced when clients stop following best practice suggestions and want to go down a different path. I'm all for being unique and different, but not at the expense of usability. Sometimes, I find it difficult to find that exact balance between client desires and the application of common sense. Sorry if I sound disgruntled, but I just finished a longterm project with a particularly difficult client.
Hi Anthony, well it happens that we often lack an absolute mix but still we go on the way because the client is to have the desired application. Truly, the usability is a major concern but with all goes disturbed when a client is not able to realize it but sometime we can manage to have client to follow the best practices but this situation is rare.
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i think designing a website is all about attracting the visitors with an attractive look at the first glance and then giving them the ease of accomplishing what they need.with out the hassle of being complex.
these tips will help to lead you there.., thanks for the post. bookmarked!
The article is really interesting. Thanks so much!
Nice article. Web site designing is not an easy task. It crosses multiple disciplines of multiple information systems, information technology and communication design. So a website should be designed in such a way that may attract various clients. You have also posted nice tips. It really help us in many ways. Good job.
These are greatest ten tips or advice that must follow by the designers; thanks.
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