Functionality Vs. Design

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first heard about it. However, UserLovely.com costs nothing and inrepparttar tradition of good design, is simplicity at its best. It specifies a set of design musts, put together by a team of pro web designers, that ensure functionality and stylish design. Access to this checklist is completely free and is te most useful resource I have encountered during my career as a web designer. These top designers will also rate your site (for FREE) and give you a User Lovely Rating, out of 100. Get over 90% and you will be able to proudly displayrepparttar 143775 prestigous User Lovely Award on your site. Get under 90% andrepparttar 143776 team of designers will implementrepparttar 143777 necessary changes for a very competitive fee. So how can you have your cake and eat it too? UserLovely.com that`s how!

Thomas Jenkins owns his own web design company, http://www.jkomp.com


@kins Diet for Web Pages

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with your visitors! The reason most click off is because they think that there is something wrong withrepparttar page, or worse, their computer! You can save them and you so much trouble by just leaving them a little note saying something like, “Please wait. Images Loading… Thank you.” onrepparttar 143774 page that is loading. Or a rollover advice text that tells them thatrepparttar 143775 page they are about to click on has a lengthy loading time. “cutrepparttar 143776 bulky images into smaller chunks” Sites with loads of images arerepparttar 143777 ones that tend to take longest to load. The Biggerrepparttar 143778 imager,repparttar 143779 longer it takes to loadrepparttar 143780 image. Solution: reducerepparttar 143781 size ofrepparttar 143782 image. This isn’t always possible, I understand that. There are other ways, try slicingrepparttar 143783 image. For those of you that don’t know, this is like eating little and often, rather than having heavy meals - cutrepparttar 143784 bulky images into smaller chunks and then place them back together. This will definitely aid loading times and as parts ofrepparttar 143785 image will be seen byrepparttar 143786 viewer, they will at least know something is happening. Also look atrepparttar 143787 format ofrepparttar 143788 images, .bmp images will take longer to load than .jpg or .gif - These are like diet foods, which don’t always taste as good asrepparttar 143789 original. The same sort of thing applies here, unless you use a good image editor thenrepparttar 143790 quality ofrepparttar 143791 image can be degraded on conversion. Okay, so in summaryrepparttar 143792 @kins diet recommends smaller images, rather than larger ones. When you definitely need to have a larger image, break it down into more manageable chunks and format it correctly. Most importantly of all, cut outrepparttar 143793 useless content that adds nothing to your design overall!

Thomas Jenkins is the webmaster of http://www.jkomp.com


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