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Web Design Tips - Useful Tips for Effective Web Design

Listed below are some useful web design tips for designing a professional and high quality web site:

• Neat and Easy Navigation is web design tip number one. Links on your site plays a big role in determining how long visitors explore your site. What do visitors do as soon as they open your site? They would probably read the content of the present page and then look around to find any other page that interests them. Web Design West

• Clean layout is key to good web design. A clean layout that uses a lot of white space enhances a site's looks. Try to keep the focus on your content, use a template for this.

• Optimum load time is essential to good web design. Make sure your load time is low. For this you must: Minimize Graphics, Flash and scripts: They hugely increase your file size. Optimize your HTML & script code: Make sure that your site doesn't have any unwanted tags or unused scripts. Use Server Side Include (SSI) files where ever possible. SSI files once called from the web server reside in its cache so on subsequent requests they load faster.

• Web designers should design for all screen resolutions. A site that is easy-to-use always encourages visitors to stay and read your content. For site with long pages of content this is very crucial as the amount of scrolling required is reduced. Suppose your site doesn't look good for a particular resolution it is very probable that the visitor will close the browser window feeling that the web page is not for their viewing. Designing stretch layouts that fit any screen resolution ensures that you know all your visitors see a visually appealing and professional site.

• Scalability is an important factor in web design. Make sure your code and design is scalable. As technology advances and configuration of computers & their monitors keep increasing and varying it is impossible to test your site in all screen sizes and platforms.

• Web design should take into consideration cross browser compatibility. Make sure you check your site for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Netscape Navigator as they constitute 95% of the worlds browsers.
  

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