Important Web Design Tips to Consider

Published on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 by Chris

Are you planning to design your first website? Here are 3 important Web Design Tips you should consider and keep in mind with every web design project.

The first tip is to keep the web design uncomplicated. This statement is easier said than done for most designers. Save the elaborated graphics, effects and animation for the latter half when you decide to go full-fledge with an online strategy. When planning to start from scratch then it’s best to add only the necessary elements in terms of functionality, design and content. Remember to add your company logo and primary navigation links, which will highlight the important things like your company services, your work and qualifications as well as ways to get in touch with you. (Very important yet often skipped). When it comes to the visual, clean and crisp designs works better than the chaotic and loud web page. Use the K-I-S-S principal (Keep it simple, stupid!) by not cramping it with too many images, flash, scripts and irrelevant content.

Secondly, your web design must allow easy reading. You may push away prospective clients by making it hard for them to locate and read information that they require. For instance, the text layout must be designed with an easy width, not letting the text run from one end to the other end of the monitor. You are also required to control the length of the text as it is measured by pixels not characters. The ideal length of the text is 500 pixels or 60 to 70 characters. The attention span of you readers are only limited to a few sentences. So having paragraphs of text will find your visitors skipping through lines and missing important content. Use the first paragraph to summarise the entire web page and capture your visitor’s attention.

And finally the content and information used on your web page must meet the needs of your visitors. The content needs to be targeted to the current market and your web site niche. While planning your web design consider the information that your target market would look for, sort these keywords out and place content relevant to each keyword. This is the easiest form of SEO optimisation and it’s free. Unique relevant content is your best friend, and Google will thank you for it by ranking your site high in the SERPs (Search Engine Results page).

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13 Responses

by Jackson December 23, 2009 at 1:21 pm

What is the best online degree program for web design? What skills does one need to become a graphic artist or a web designer for a company?
by Grothoff December 23, 2009 at 2:41 pm

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by Harriett Bedsole December 28, 2009 at 12:32 am

Thanks for your tips. I need a good web designer for my website. I bought a domain name one week back and now looking for good designers for it. My site is mainly based on downloads especially ebooks, softwares, mob applications etc. Where can I hire ? Any suggestions
by Doris Evans December 31, 2009 at 4:31 am

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by Helen Williams December 31, 2009 at 5:00 am

@ Harriett. I am a designer. I am a freelancer. Can I help you ? What is your site all about ? Can you provide your contact id ? I am ready to do the design for your site.
by Christian Stembridge January 2, 2010 at 11:52 pm

Thanks for your great tips. I agree to what you mentioned in the first line. Unnecessary graphics and delay time in opening the web page leads to so complication. The visitor may not like that.
by Sharron Rayfield January 3, 2010 at 3:18 am

The appearance of your website is critical thing in getting traffic to your website. Try to make a website simple and natural in appearance. Dont add much graphics to your site as it delays opening time. Thanks for your post.
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