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Sunday, April 8, 2007

How To Design a Web Site

Select Color Scheme:Use colors that best suit your business and can express your business better. If you already have corporate colors like color of your logo, use these colors for your website design as well since your consumers are already aware of these colors. In case your company is a start-up, use a good color combination. The most common and popular color combinations are:
• Blue and White.
• Red, Grey and White.
• Red, Yellow and White.
• Blue, Orange and White.

Easy to Use Navigation: User friendly navigation controll is a basic web design tip that you should keep in mind while thinking of your website design. An easy navigation system is one of the most important factors in effective website design. Display your navigation bar where it can easily be found. In most of the web sites, the navigation bar is displayed on the left or top side of the webpage.

Special Effects: Using Special effects is a good web design idea to keep the viewer’s attention stuck on the web page. On the other hand however, it might also distract the viewer’s attention from the content. They also increase the downloading time of webpage. Hence, you need to optimize on the kind of special effects you want to use and the loading time when using any kind of animation on your page

External Link: Open links to external web sites in new windows to enable the visitor to return to your site after completing the work on the external site. Never include a link to your competitor’s site on your link page since this may divert traffic from your site to your competitors’ site.

Layout: The design and layout of your website are integral parts of website development. Bad web site design and layout could entirely spoil the show irrespective of how good your content might be and how much advertisement you do.

Place Your Business Name: Place the name of your business or website name at or near the top of page. If you have your company logo put that also on the home page of your site. It should not be too big or too small and should be able to fit into a particular area.

Avoid Excessive Scrolling: Different users use different screen-size monitors. Although Vertical scrolling on your web site is entirely acceptable, horizontal scrolling is undesirable to most users; it also makes the page look like a patch-up job. Keep the images small and divide the content into multiple pages, if need be.

Site Map and Search Feature: If your site contains more then 10 pages, it is advisable to include a “site map” or “search feature” in your site. This will reduce the searching time and visitors can easily find what they are looking for.
Last but not least take the help of free web design tutorials to make your website more appealing and eye catching .

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