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Design Tips 1
10-Points to Good Design:
 Content: Design your webpage/site for your visitors, your targeted audience. Provide information, interaction and entertainment. Good content aimed for your viewers is critical;
Make sure your webpage/site is clear, concise & focused, has purpose. Tell, entertain, interact, give. Involve your visitors in your site/page, build community. Produce a site/page that viewers can actively participate with, be part of.
Forget the "bells & whistles" and "glitz and garbage". Make your page/site load quickly, the layout and design crisp and fresh, the text well-written;
Don't use frames or heavy graphics, but if you "must", make sure you have a no-frames and/or text-only version of the site - give your viewers a choice, an option, to avoid frames and intense graphics;
Use links in context. Mix this into your content/text. If you design a page of links, make sure it's just one part of your whole site, has a purpose, a theme which is in context to your site, and describe the source of each link;
If you use CGI, forms, a guestbook, chat room and other interactive tools and utilities, make sure you offer "user friendly" programs, and an alternative method to enable visitors to communicate with you - email, for example - for those browsers unable to handle forms;
Make sure navigating your pages/site is easy. Visitors should be able to get to the homepage, and most pages, quickly and easily from any page on the site.
Use META tags. The information in your META tags is absolutely critical for many search engines to be able to catalog and list your site;
Take the time and effort to include image size and ALT tags. Spell check. Test your coding on HTML review utilities, and check your pages on different browsers for appearance.
Maintain, update and change your page/site constantly. Once you've built it, start changing, growing it, updating it. Fresh content gives your visitors a reason to keep returning. |
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