Quality Web Design

Chad Argo – Phoenix, AZ
123Triad: Web Design & SEO Company

Quality Web Design

It is the objective of most web designers to make websites such that they attract visitors repeatedly. Making such websites requires good graphic design, simple site navigation and a site layout that is logical.

Web content is important. Web design must present to visitors informative and reputed content. Grammatical and spelling mistakes detract from a site’s credibility. Keep in mind that most use the internet as a source of information, therefore presenting information well is of the utmost importance.

Today, there are over one hundred internet browsers in use. Do make sure that your web design is such that it allows the website to function well in all of the widely used browsers. However, that may mean not using all the special effects etc that you had in mind because they might not be supported by some internet browsers. Although most web browsers are free, many internet users will not upgrade their browsers. Some might not know how while others simply choose not to. Note that the internet visitor may be using a PC, a MAC, a Linux box, a PDA or a cell phone, all of which have different browsers.

Good web design means that your website should at least function in Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, Opera and Safari. A way to check your website’s functionality is validating your HTML code. However, at the end you must use all of these browsers to open your website and see how your website performs.

Popular research shows that the interest of most visitors will hold not longer than 10 seconds. This means that the longer your website takes to download, the lesser your chances of attracting visitors becomes. Optimize your photos and other graphic files to cut down download time. Keep your settings such that content other than graphics can load on the page first. Web design should be simple.

If your web design includes background colours, be sure to specify link colours. If you don’t, browsers will automatically choose what colour the links are and possibly make them unreadable. Multimedia is flash movies, video clips, audio clips etc. Stream your media as that cuts download time and make sure your media can be started and stopped so that the visitor can choose when or when not to listen to or view the multimedia items.

Furthermore, any vital information broadcast through multimedia should also be put in text on the website for those visitors who are only accessing the site. If your web design needs a plug-in to be employed then provide links so users can install it.

Studies show that the simpler the navigation of a site, the more satisfied visitors will be. If a visitor can not find what they are looking for within three clicks, then they are most likely to abandon your website. Simple text links are the easiest and surest tools to simple navigation. If you use anything more complicated in your web design then be sure to check the navigation on all major web browsers. Also, periodically check the links on your website to your web pages, making sure that they are still valid. Broken or dead links deter visitors. There are quite a few online services that can provide link-checking services.

Your website should incorporate as few frames as possible. This is because frames make it harder to bookmark pages. One wants their pages to be bookmarked so that visitors can return to them in the future.
Good web design is a mixture of logic and organized planning. Websites should be attractive, usable and informative.

123Triad webdesign offers affordable custom website design. Our full service website design company only hires certified website designers. Please contact us today on 1-800-720-0816 for your next web site design project.

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