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Web Design Projects Good Designs  by: Neil Parnham Your website is where your business resides -- it's like the headquarter of an offline company. Hence, it is important to practise good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible. Make sure you have clear directions on the navigation of your website. The navigation menu should be uncluttered and concise so that visitors know how to navigate around your website without confusion. Reduce the number of images on your website. They make your site load very slowly and more often than not they are very unnecessary. If you think any image is essential on your site, make sure you optimize them using image editing programs so that they have a minimum file size. Keep your text paragraphs at a reasonable length. If a paragraph is too long, you should split it into seperate paragraphs so that the text blocks will not be too big. This is important because a block of text that is too large will deter visitors from reading your content. Make sure your website complies to web standards at www.w3.org and make sure they are cross-browser compatible. If your website looks great in Internet Explorer but breaks horribly in Firefox and Opera, you will lose out on a lot of prospective visitors. Avoid using scripting languages on your site unless it is absolutely necessary. Use scripting languages to handle or manipulate data, not to create visual effects on your website. Heavy scripts will slow down the loading time of your site and even crash some browsers. Also, scripts are not supported across all browsers, so some visitors might miss important information because of that. Use CSS to style your page content because they save a lot of work by styling all elements on your website in one go. About The Author Neil Parnham DIY Conservatories http://www.diyconservatories-and-windows.co.uk/ This article was posted on July 15, 2007   View More Videos from the "Web Design and Development" category: How Add a Stylesheet to Your Website How to Remove Wix Ads How to Initialize the ASP.NET Control Web Designers Blog Review   Read More Articles from the "Web Design and Development" Category: 7 Easy Secrets to Understanding Web Statistics by Alden Smith Getting Yourself Noticed On The Web by Thomasina Biswald Dramatic Effect of White Space in Websites by Alan Smith Domain Names and Search Engine Optimization by Halstatt Pires Outsourcing iPhone Application Development: An Economical Solution by Jessica Woodson Enhance Your Website With A Yahoo-Style Directory by Rick Rouse How to Make Visitors Add You to Their Favorites by Peter Lopez Three Reasons Premium Joomla Templates Should Develop Your Website by Joel Morrison Back to Paragraphs by Florie Lyn Masarate How Disabled Users Access The Internet by Trenton Moss << Back to "Web Design And Development" Index

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