Five Common Web Design Mistakes

Written by Charles Nixon III


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Mistake #4 Confusing Content. You want to make everything easy to read and navigate. If you know someone thats in their teen years you should come up with some questions to ask them about your website. Like: What do you think my site is about? Would you buy this product on my website? Can you understandrepparttar information on this(blank.html)page?

If you can get a teen, or even any average person to answer these question's honestly you can find ways to change your setup so that anyone and everyone is drawn in to purchase from you.

Mistake #5 Advertising. When you advertise your websiterepparttar 132556 number one thing that you do not want to do is spam. It is very easy to advertise your website all overrepparttar 132557 web for free! You can use forums, article submission groups, online communities, chat groups, news feeds, and much more. If you do resort to spam this could hurt your website sales. A lot web surfers will go around and if they find spam they will report it to someone that will post it on a website that degrades or gives bad reviews on your website.

If you can avoid these five mistakes that almost every webmaster experiences than you will be on your way to success in no time.

Charles Nixon - Website Designer Driven by Creativity Building websites to increase sales, and build web presence Did you start your business to create a website? or to run your business? With competitive pricing and your project delivered on time and on budget CharlesNixon.com may be the web design firm for you! http://www.CharlesNixon.com/ Charles@CharlesNixon.com


Basic Graphic Design

Written by Kelly Paal


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Space (Negative space) We all pay attention torepparttar amount of space that we use on our projects. What aboutrepparttar 132554 space that you don’t use? Do you notice that? Well it’s just as important. Stand back and squint again. Noticerepparttar 132555 percentage of items filling up your project, what isrepparttar 132556 percentage of negative, unused space? While you want to makerepparttar 132557 most of your space available, you don’t want all of it used up either. Using too much makes an ad look busy too little it looks empty. An appropriate percentage can be anywhere from 60% to 80% used space and 40% to 20% negative or unused space. Keep your percentages in that range and you’ll have a nicely balanced ad, web page, or project.

Texture This is becoming important again with web design. All ofrepparttar 132558 really cool and interesting textures that you can use for anything from backgrounds to text is amazing. Remember one thing that a texture carries almost as much weight torepparttar 132559 eye as a photo. Just as you would not place a lot of photos on your page don’t use too many textures. Also watch your placement of these they can pullrepparttar 132560 eye away from where you want it to move.

Remember one thing, when it doubt simplify.

Kelly Paal is a Freelance Nature and Landscape Photographer, exhibiting nationally and internationally. Recently she started her own business Kelly Paal Photography (www.kellypaalphotography.com). She has an educational background in photography, business, and commercial art. She enjoys applying graphic design and photography principles to her web design.


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