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A website’s design has a huge impact on it’s success. Using appealing and effective web design techniques can help visitors trust, be attracted to, and find your site simple to use. In the worst case, creating a site with horrible design will mean that your visitors just click “back” without even reading anything on the homepage. Heed the advice below to help you design an attractive and functional website. For multimedia presentations, take advantage of the new HTML5 standard. Although HTML5 isn’t quite as robust for animation and games as Flash, it has the advantage of working stably on mobile phone browsers, including those contained in Apple hardware. HTML5 is also quite a bit leaner than Flash, so load times will improve, as well. Make sure your webpages aren’t too long. You only get one chance to make a first impression, and if your most important content is “below the fold,” it may not even be read. If you have a lot of related content that needs to stay together, consider breaking it up into sections and adding links to each section. Avoid trying to add every new gadget to your website. It can be tempting to make your site […]

Many people give up their interest in web design when they start thinking seriously about how to design their first website. If you’re interested in web design but suffering from a bit of information overload, this article can help. Read on for some basic, easily-digestible tips on how to employ outstanding web design techniques. Avoid using frames. Most sites have abandoned frames on their own as better alternatives have become available, but there are still sites out there that are trapped in 1996. Alternatives to navigational frames include fixed-position navigation panels, having navigation in multiple areas (e.g. left and bottom) or simplifying page structure so that navigational links are never far away. Be wary of web hosting companies who claim that they offer unlimited bandwidth to their customers. Usually there is something that is written in the small print that is far different than that. In many cases people end up having problems when it comes to fair use policies. Make sure everything is easy to locate on your website. Spend some serious thought on how everything on your site will be laid out. When content is randomly thrown on your site with little thought to the layout, you are […]