Web Design Hints

Web design has gone into a new dimension, where web page designers are faced with

the job of designing web sites and web pages that are visually pleasing and also search engine friendly. With more companies doing the majority of there trading on line the call for search engine friendly websites are on the increase. Being found by search engines is a significant factor for the success of your on line business.

So how do you create a decent looking web page that is also search engine friendly? This article will give you one of the tricks of the trade that will strengthen the ranking of your website. Google is hot currently about the time it takes for a website to download. Download times are without doubt one of the elements that Yahoo uses to assess your sites serp or search engine ranking position, or in plain English what page you are on in the search results.

There are a couple of tools that are free to download that will help you fine tune your web sites down load time. One tool is labeled as y-slow and the other tool is called page speed. Both these tools will show all the information in regards to your sites performance. The tools will also inform you of changes that you have to make in order to speed up your web page.

When you are designing a site there are a few basic recommendations that you can follow to keep your web site fast a nimble. As a general rule of thumb try to keep the number and size of the images on your page down to a minimum. Large images will add to your sites download time quite a lot, if you have to use images then keep them small and use compression to decrease the load time. If you have numerous pictures then group them together as one larger image, you will not reduce the load but you will reduce the number of http requests i. e. 5 separate files will become one single file.

For example if you are building a website for a customer and there are parts that have graphical elements or sections like buttons then group all the separate images together and save them as a single image. Depending on the complexity of the button or panel that you are creating, it could comprise of five or so individual images or files. Grouping all the images or files together will produce one file which will result in a single request. Every graphic file on your site will have a unique url like mysite.com/images.png with an http prefix. Each image and file is requested by the server and the more request that there are the slower your web page will load.

So how fast should your site be? The answer is a fast as achievable especially for pages or sites that need to be found for advertising reasons such as affiliate sales and other similar endeavors. If you utilize one of the page speed tools then you will discover that it gives your site a score out of 100 or a grade A to E, the higher the grade or score the quicker the site is (A or 100 is the highest).

by: anton allen

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