We all know that these days every one can design a website but
question remains how to design eye catching website . I have read many books ,articles and tutorials about web design and have realized that every web designer has his own way of designing websites.After I read all of that and made extensive research , I decided to write something about it and to share some of my experience with you .
This is my first article and I must say I'm not a writer but I hope you will find it very informative.
Of course I wrote about something which you might already know about but I believe there is always someone out there who needs such information and tips and benefits from them .
In article I have gathered and explained some good tips (Do's and Don't's) which will give you an astonishing results if you follow them well.
Below are tips for designing an eye catching website which you will be proud of .
1 Consistency : It is always better to keep your design from page to page consistent so that visitor knows that he is still in same site and didn't jump to another site.
The page or site color scheme and navigation should be same throughout site.
2 Navigation : Always keep your navigation simple . Tell visitor which page he is on . This can be done in many ways and way which I think is best way is to remove link from page which he is on .
For example, Let's suppose that you have following navigation text on your home page ... Home -- About Us -- Contact Us -- Services -- Order Then suppose that visitor clicked on services page .
When services page is loaded then link which says services will not be a link instead it will be a normal text with different color . That helps visitor know which page he is on . If you are using graphic buttons then You can provide a different version of button and make it without a link .
3 Use Browser Safe Colors : What are browser safe colors anyway? Browser safe colors are 216 colors which remain same when displayed on any computer or browser.
Colors which are not browser safe may dither when displayed some computers ,meaning if a computer can't display a color 100% it will then display nearest color to it instead. So make sure that you use browser safe colors throughout your site.
4 Minimize use of Graphics : A site with a lot of graphics will take forever to load. Even though graphics make sites better but it is always better to minimize use of them for many reasons including but not limited to following :
A lot of Graphics make your site or pages take forever to load which will make visitor of your website close page or hit back button .
Search Engine Spiders have problems with graphics because they will not be able to index any page that has a lot of graphics .
Of course you can use small, yet fast loading graphics instead of big ones . Also You can use them as a table or cell background but make sure that text is readable before background image is loaded. And don't forget to use ALT tag for all of your images .
