Useful Tips for Effective Web Design

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

Neat and Easy Navigation: Navigation of links on your site plays a big role in determining the stickiness of your site (how long your visitor stays and explores your site). Ask yourself this ?
Clean Layout 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. Use fonts that will be available
on all computers to prevent your site looking messed up.

Optimum Load Time: 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.

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.

Ensure Web site scalability: 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.

Cross Browser Compatible: Make sure you check your site for
Internet Explorer 5+, Mozilla Firefox 1.0, Opera 7.0 and Netscape
Navigator 6+ as they constitute 95% of the worlds browsers.