How to make your website load fast ?(Part One)

1. Prefer Simple Design: Always go for a simple website design. Websites simple in design take very less time to load and are easy to maintain. Convoluted design will increase loading time. Use minimum graphics and lines of code to develop a webpage.

2. Maximize the use of HTML and CSS: HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is a language used in website design. Try to use HTML wherever possible. Websites with good use of HTML win a good position in search engine. HTML coupled with Cascading Style Sheet make the navigation control of your website fast, moreover you can modify the website at any stage if need be.

3. Use Light Images: A light webpage will load faster. Minimize the use of images, be it for text or for picture. This allows quicker loading of the webpage and even helps in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) of the website. It is easy for search engines to comprehend text on a webpage than an image. Use various image compression tools available online to reduce the image size into kilobytes. Generally a GIF image will be lighter than a JPEG one, but there is a bargain in terms of image quality in such a case.

4. Flash: Use of Flash in web pages may not be a very good idea. Flash, though increase the appeal to a site but do not perform very well on search engines like Yahoo, Google, MSN, etc. In addition it increases the loading time of a webpage. So better option is to try and avoid a Flash website design and use HTML in place of that.

5. Use Tables: Loading time of tables is less because it is just HTML. You can use tables intrepidly on your home page, menu or anywhere else. Tables definitely scores over frames. Try to avoid all type of frames on a website.